Bouncing Bride: What Is Down Must Go Up
Join the bouncing bride as her bouncing groom on a mini-trampoline atop a ten-foot wedding cake. Cathy Gordon follows up her last endurance piece ON MY KNEES: a public divorce ceremony, with this light-hearted look at the “bright-side” of divorce. Cake design by Laird MacDonald.
Supported by The Theatre Centre and The Music Gallery
Photo credit: Dustin Parr
NUIT BLANCHE
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3, 2009, 7pm to 7am
ZONE A
The Music Gallery, 197 John Street
Concept & Performance – Cathy Gordon
Cake Design – Laird MacDonald
Wedding DJ – Ulysses Castellanos
BOUNCING BRIDE: What Is Down Must Go Up
Coproduced by The Theatre Centre, The Music Gallery and The Cathy Gordon Collective
Be the bouncing groom to the bouncing bride on your own mini-trampoline atop a ten-foot high wedding cake. Cathy Gordon follows up her last endurance piece ON MY KNEES: a public divorce ceremony,with this light-hearted look at the “bright-side” of divorce.
Projected from within the cake-sculpture will be a series of a hundred positive divorce stories ranging from Canada’s own Maggie & Pierre to personal stories collected for this project. The aim of the work is to expose the untold “happy side” of divorce, which is still regarded negatively in our society.
Request your favourite wedding songs from our very own Wedding DJ, Ulysses Castellanos, and then dance the night away under the stars in the beautiful courtyard of St. George The Martyr’s Church.
Those who wish to venture to the top of the cake, can sign up for a number and then continue dancing while they wait for their turn. Audience members will be allowed one at a time to the top of the cake where they can bounce with the artist (if only for awhile) as her new groom.
Fatigued Nuit Blanchers can also lounge instead – sinking into the cozy “bottom layer” of the cake. Their imprints in the memory-foam with create “waves in the icing” which serves as a physical reminder of their metaphysical traces and the impermanence of all relationships.