Performance Photo Gallery

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Insomnia – Performed on a real sod floor with natural birch trunks and choreographed on a vertical bed, Kate and company created a piece with a very unique, intimate and innovative atmosphere. As part of Emergency #20 Festival of Performance, Insomnia was presented by Public Energy, with musicians Derek Bell, Curtis Driedger and Charity Justrabo, performer and designer Ryan Kerr, and director Em Glasspool. The Theatre On King (TTOK)

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia – rehearsal

Insomnia – rehearsal

Insomnia – rehearsal

Insomnia – rehearsal

Insomnia – rehearsal

Insomnia – audience

Insomnia – rehearsal

Insomnia – set

Insomnia – rehearsal

Performances May Be Permanent (photo: Wayne Eardley) – Initially created as a solo performance work drawing from the life and death of iconic pianist Glenn Gould, the piece explores Kate’s personal connection to the material. Directed by Ker Wells, with design by Martha Cockshutt, and music by Derek Bell (along with Glenn Gould himself). Artsweek, Gordon Best Theatre, Peterborough 2010 Emergency #18, Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough 2011

Performances May Be Permanent (photo: Wayne Eardley)

Performances May Be Permanent (photo: Wayne Eardley)

The One That Got Away (photo: Wayne Eardley) – A fashion fundraiser for Public Energy. Spring 2011 – The Venue, Peterborough

The One That Got Away (photo: Wayne Eardley)

The One That Got Away (photo: Wayne Eardley)

The One That Got Away

Sadleir Movement – A dance film by Michael Morritt. Choreographed by Kate Story. Premiere Screening: August 1, 2008 at Sadleir House, Peterborough Featuring performers: Kate Story, Ryan Kerr, Brad Brackenridge, Keelia Quinn Delaunay, Curtis Driedger, Matt Gilbert, Phillip J. Oakley. The film tells the story of an historical home in Peterborough using a movement-based narrative in lieu of a more conventional verbal narrative. “Sadleir Movement” is Peterborough’s first full-length dance film.

Sadleir Movement

Sadleir Movement

Sadleir Movement

Sadleir Movement

Sadleir Movement

Sadleir Movement

Biology As Peepshow – A work in collaboration with installation artist Caroline Langill. Neighbourhood Dance Works, St. John’s, 2007; Hysteria festival opening night gala, Toronto, 2003; David Bierk Studio, Peterborough, 2003 & 2005; Shared Habitat 2: Festival of Art and Science, Toronto, 2003. Adaptation of symposium talk published in Feb-March ’03 issue of The Dance Current magazine.

Biology As Peepshow

Biology As Peepshow

The Cure For Sexual Jealousy (photo: Wayne Eardley) – A multi-disciplinary collaboration with designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer. Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, Peterborough. – “this confluence… produces a fresh language built out of invocations, laments, rituals, choral speech, soliliquies, cat fights and prayers. It is hypnotic in its repetition and revelatory in its universality.” – Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner

The Cure For Sexual Jealousy (photo: Wayne Eardley)

The Cure For Sexual Jealousy (photo: Wayne Eardley)

The Cure For Sexual Jealousy (photo: Wayne Eardley)

Tonight The Bottle (photo: Wayne Eardley) – Part 1 of “Trigger Mortis, The Dying Cowboy Trilogy” Created by Curtis Driedger & Kate Story – For the EMERGENCY Dance Series – Market Hall, Peterborough

Tonight The Bottle (photo: Wayne Eardley)

Tonight The Bottle (photo: Wayne Eardley)

Tonight The Bottle (photo: Wayne Eardley)

Tonight The Bottle (photo: Wayne Eardley)

Tonight The Bottle (photo: Wayne Eardley)

Tonight The Bottle

Tonight The Bottle

Streets of Laredo – Part 2 of “Trigger Mortis, The Dying Cowboy Trilogy” – Created by Curtis Driedger & Kate Story – For the EMERGENCY Dance Series – Market Hall, Peterborough

Joy of Blood – Part 3 of “Trigger Mortis, The Dying Cowboy Trilogy” – Created by Curtis Driedger & Kate Story – For the EMERGENCY Dance Series – Market Hall, Peterborough

Elemental: Water – Choreographed by Anne Ryan – From EMERGENCY #12 – Market Hall, Peterborough

“she sits silent, sketching circles in her skirt” – Choreographed by Wes Ryan – From EMERGENCY #14 – Market Hall, Peterborough

…and again, until we get it – A duet performed by Ryan Kerr/Kevin Fitzmaurice and Melissa Webster, music by Charlie Glasspool. Video shot and edited by Michael Morritt. – fFIDA (Toronto, 2005); From the Floor with the Peterborough Dance Collective (March 2005) – “… a fascinating duet for a disabled woman and an able-bodied man where the power between the two keeps shifting.” – Paula Citron, “The Best of the Rest,” The Globe and Mail

… and again, until we get it

… and again, until we get it

…and again, until we get it

…and again, until we get it

Skirting The Edge – Mysterious Entity Theatre – Workman Arts Theatre, Toronto 2011, Gordon Best Theatre, Peterborough 2010 – Directed by: Em Glasspool, Designed by: Martha Cockshutt, Choreographed by: Bill James – A reworking of this powerful piece for three performers. Featuring: Melissa Hood, Dianne Latchford, Kate Story. Monologues Written by: Martha Cockshutt, Esther Vincent, Em Glasspool, Kate Story, Susan Newman, Nauni Parkinson

Skirting The Edge

Skirting The Edge

Hamlet In A Hurry – Mysterious Entity Theatre – Market Hall Performance Centre, Peterborough 2009. Adapted from Shakespeare by: Alan Orenstein, Directed by: Em Glasspool, Designed by: Martha Cockshutt, Featuring: Andrew Little, Amy Fort, Kate Story, Beau Dixon, Rob Fortin, Josh Fewings. – Remounted by Mysterious Entity for Tour 2010 – Directed by: Em Glasspool, Designed by: Melanie McCall, Featuring: Andrew Little, Caitlin Driscoll, Kate Story, Beau Dixon, Rob Fortin, Josh Fewings

Hamlet In A Hurry

Hamlet In A Hurry

Hamlet In A Hurry

The Black Diamond – Mysterious Entity Theatre – Market Hall Performance Centre – Peterborough 2008. Written & Directed by: Em Glasspool, Set Design by: Martha Cockshutt, Featuring: Kate Story, Karyn Drane, Phillip J. Oakley – “A courageous and admirable dive into an alcoholic cesspool of a character by veteran performer Kate Story… ” – Anne Etherington, Peterborough Examiner

The Black Diamond

Skirting The Edge – A collection of six original monologues on the issue of women and mental health (Kate contributed Green Spaces, set in a Victorian asylum). The work was sponsored by Peterborough New Dance/Public Energy, in association with the Behind the Mind’s Eye Film Festival, and in partnership with the Peterborough Regional Health Care Centre, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. – Mysterious Entity Theatre – Peterborough 2005, 2006, 2007, Riverrun Centre – Guelph (fall 2007). Writer/Performers: Susan Spicer, Susan Newman, Esther Vincent, Nauni Parkinson, Kate Story. Writer/Director: Em Glasspool. Writer/Designer: Martha Cockshutt.

Macbeth for Six with Seven at Eight – Mysterious Entity Theatre – Peterborough 2001. Starring: Jim Gleason & Kate Story. Script adaption: Christopher Wilton. Directed by: Em Glasspool – ” …an extraordinarily well-executed show.” – Mary Helen Moes, Peterborough Examiner

Vagina Monologues – Mysterious Entity Theatre – Showplace Peterborough 2002. Directed by: Em Glasspool. Designed by: Martha Cockshutt & Caroline Langill. Produced as part of the World V-Day 2002 Campaign, this production assisted in raising $17,000 for local organizations working to eliminate violence against women. During production Mysterious Entity forged links with the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre, the YWCA, the Niijkiwendidaa Anishnaabe-Kwewag Services Circle, Trent University’s Women’s Centre and the Peterborough New Canadians’ Centre. Cast Photo by Miranda Hume – Back row: Renee Castro, anya Gwynne, Michelle Ramdhanie, Kate Story, Charmaine Eddy, Amy Terrill. Centre row: Susan Newman, Dy Gallagher, Patti Shaughnessy. Front: Nauni Parkinson

King Lear – Shakespeare By The Sea Festival – Logy Bay, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1994. Directed by: Chuck Herriott. Featuring as The Sisters: Damhnait Doyle (Cordelia), Petrina Bromley (Goneril), Kate Story (Regan)

Estrogems – Kate rocks the house as “Pearly Gates”, lead singer of the girl-punk-band, The Estrogems.

Estrogems – Kate fronts the ‘Gems as they open for Carole Pope – what a night! Montreal House, Peterborough November 28, 2009

Estrogems – Jeena Jade, Emerald City & Pearly Gates

Estrogems – Jeena Jade, Pearly Gates & Precious Stone

Estrogems – Molten Lava & Pearly Gates

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