Bunker (10 or 37 minutes)
Bunker is a solo performance about the pressures placed on the female body across generations. The body is both a space of constraint and a space of resistance: compressed, contained and controlled, yet constantly searching for a way to move, resist and endure. In this intensely physical solo, Rebecca Margolick moves between restraint and release, vulnerability and strength, creating a body that carries several layers of time at once.
The work grew out of archival research into the women who lived at the 92nd Y Residence and the Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls in New York between 1899 and 1950. Most of them were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Margolick weaves their histories together with her own memories and experiences, approaching time as non-linear: the past returns through the body, individual experiences overlap, and history becomes something transmitted, repeated and transformed. Bunker is a personal yet generational study of containment, resistance and resilience.
About:
Bunker + Vault won the Jury Prize for “best indoor choreographic work” at the 2019 Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal Canada. The full length work has been presented in Istanbul, Turkey (Istanbul Fringe 2023), San Luis Potosí, Mexico (CEART), Montreal (Festival Quartiers Danses, 2022), Nashville (Kindling Arts Festival 2022), Vancouver, B.C. (Dancing On The Edge Festival 2022), San José, Costa Rica (Grafica Genesis 2022, and Solos Hecho a Mano 2021).
The short version has been presented in Frankfurt and Friedrichshafen, Germany (SOLOCOREOGRAFICO 2022) Berlin, Germany (Lucky Trimmer 2022), Portland, USA (PDX Festival 2021), Singapore (M1 Contact Contemporary Festival 2021 online), Carcassonne and Toulouse, France (La Galerie Chorégraphique 2021 and 2022), NYC (Create:Art, and The Moving Memory Project), Mexico City (Cuerpo al Descubierto), Wells, B.C. (ArtsWells), Vancouver, B.C. (Chutzpah! Festival).
Acknowledgements:
Conney Conference 2019 and Bernard Schwartz at the 92nd Y Archives, Canada Council for the Arts for travel funding, Dance Artist in Residence program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and La Galerie Chorégraphique.
