Vicki Tansey, dancer & visual artist, has been living & working in the Eastern Townships for over 40 years. Born in Montreal, she studied dance from the age of nine, becoming a pioneer in the art of improvisation, & teaching in the Concordia University Dance department at its inception. In time, her involvement in the visual arts also deepened & expanded, the possibilities inherent in making art & performance allowing for an almost limitless range of interrelated & layered works. As a dancer & painter, it is the underlying essence & energy – details from the everyday – that inform & inspire all that she does. Form is movement stilled – and these forms, these dances – are held in the stillness of the painted images. The cycle – the interrelationships – are endless.
Vicki Tansey, dance and voice
Michael Hynes, piano
André Lafleur, contrabass
Jean René, viola
Tevet Sela, saxophone
"The audience was spellbound from the moment of entry to the hall where the dancer sat motionless on a stark wooden chair on stage with a backdrop of one of her huge abstract paintings. The effect was breathtaking as were the following 60 minutes which passed without a single hesitation – silence, virtuosity, tonality, discord, frenzy, laughter, beauty, intimacy, reciprocity – You sensed that when it ended the audience, so moved by the extraordinary event they had witnessed, were loathe to leave the building and step out into the ordinary world." Susan Scott, Graphic Design, Stanbridge East, Quebec
