Inner Fish Performance Co. presents HABITAT Living Things International Arts Festival 2025

Habitat is a multidisciplinary solo inspired by the life cycle of hermit crabs, serving as a metaphor for the artist's emigration journey from Uruguay to Canada. Hermit crabs don’t have a shell; instead, they house themselves in objects according to their size. As they grow, their object becomes limiting and uncomfortable, so they look for a new one.

This multidisciplinary piece combines movement, sound, a paper sculpture named Hermes (made of 600 articulated paper cones) and lighting. All elements are controlled in real time by the performer, and serve as her shell, her habitat. The lighting and sculpture create beautiful visual effects reminiscent of aurora borealis. All these elements make of Habitat a hypnotic poetic experience with an aquatic eerie atmosphere.

Creative Team:

• Choreography and performance: Bettina Szabo
• Sculpture: Jacinthe Derasp
• Musical composition: Ana Dall'Ara Majek and Joel Lavoie
• Dramaturgy: Morena Prats
• Wearable electronics: Alexandra Bachmayer
• Costume: Anomal Couture
• Rehearsal direction: Laurie-Anne Langis, Annie Gagnon and Philippe Poirier
• Lighting design: Paul Chambers
• Spatialization: Thibaut Carpentier
• Technical direction: Audrée J. Lewka​
• Management: Aaron Fernandes

DURATION 45 minutes / General audience, 16 years+

About Habitat

Video Teaser

Press quotes:
Spatialized music bursts from everywhere, runs through our spine. This short, accomplished creation is a work of proximity. — Nayla Naoufal, Le Devoir
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[...] beautiful images are created with strength and brilliance throughout the play. — DF Danse
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One of the best current shows...the use of lighting, inside and outside the costume, conjures up the pastel glimmer of northern lights and the flames of a forest fire - The Guardian, Lyndsey Winship

Presented at:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh 2023, Lightning Guerrilla Festival, Ljubljana 2023, International Figuren Theater Festival, Nuremberg 2023, La Rotonde, Quebec 2023,CAM on Tour, Montreal 2023, BIDAM, Busan 2022, La Fundicion, Bilbao 2022
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Excerpts at:
Off-CINARS, Montreal 2022, Tangente, Montreal 2020, Parcours Danse 2019, Montreal 2019, Festival ZH, Montreal 2017, Métamorphose - Studio 303, Montreal 2016

Habitat is co-presented with PuSH International Arts Festival in Vancouver

Pricing

General Seating - Pay What You Wish: available in increments of $10 starting at $25.00 per ticket, plus $2.10 Capital Improvement Fee and $3.00 Service Fee

All above prices include GST.

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Kelowna Community Theatre event tickets include a $2.00 Capital Improvement Fee (CIF) and 5% GST. A service fee is added for box office costs, card processing, and taxes. Service fees are non-refundable.