Warning: this performance contains nudity and makes use of water-based haze.

Please note that in line with current BC Health orders, this event is open to a full capacity audience of 200. Proof of vaccination will be will required at the door and all guests are required to wear masks while indoors.

The two dance solos, Melon Piece + Blue Space , offer a balance of light and dark, evoking a timely reflection on our current struggle to exist in harmony with one another and the planet.

Arash Kahkpour's Melon Piece is a symbolic portrayal of human dilemmas. It is a story about the primal and maturing self in constant transformation. It is a study of our contradictory desires—those we choose to act upon, and the ones we suppress and repress—through different stages of our lives. The performer unearths embodied memories of love, joy and play to create a distracting playground of desire to drown in. Melon Piece is a living portrait of a man finding himself lost in a world of abundance.

In Blue Space, Kelly McInnes explores our intrinsic connection to water – the water that makes up our bodies and the world we inhabit. Full of startling imagery, this deeply-felt solo born of grief and hope explores tensions between the healing and the exploitation involved in our relationship to earth. It is an invitation to remember what we’re made of. Blue Space is a celebration of oceans within oceans, waterfalls from wet eyes. Blue Space is all shades of blue.