ffida launch at rbase.

The fFIDA launch party was amazing. It's the tenth anniversary of Canada's largest dance festival, and we kicked it off with a bang. the air got a little sticky (especially 'cause I just *had* to wear my new Mavi pleather pants), what with most of Toronto's dance community kicking off their shoes to tear up the dance floor to the grooving house/funk mix provided by dj Matt C. Not to mention the added heat provided by the numerous projectors brought in by Mopix for Gregory Nixon's installation: sharp edits of anything that could be called choreography, including breakdancing, flappers doing the charleston, kung fu, kathak, and some kind of weird early-days-of-colourisation-thing involving what appeared to be hula-dancing concubines who would occasionally explode in a puff of smoke. My favourite was the fight-scene loop from some unnamed film featuring a typical 'fifties everyman in hat and suit doing battle with an alien in his living room, sections repeated, reversed, cut, and spliced into some kind of psychotic waltz.

Gregory was superexcited due to having a film in this years' TIFF. His film, Poe, is the shortest in the festival, at four (not three) minutes long. Sounds like he's packed a lot into those four minutes, though.

Having been running around all over the province that day, I burnt out quickly and settled in near the delish nibblies provided by Michael Tong (tip: always have a chef on your board of directors) of Kubo.

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