Andrew Bartee

Following on from the series of individual performances made at CAG during autumn-winter 2017, Ballet BC dancer, Andrew Bartee will present a performance that draws together this period of research examining gesture and movement with a particular interest in audience in consideration of permeability of the fourth wall as a conversation between art and each other.

### Biography

Andrew Bartee, from Everett, Washington, joined Ballet BC in 2014 and was the Artist in Residence for the 17/18 season. He studied on scholarship at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, WA and attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He was also the first recipient of the Fleming Halby exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet, a 2007 Princess Grace Award, and was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2015.

A gallery space with people lined against the wall watching one person perform at the center. The performer is wearing all yellow clothes and is holding a dance pose. 

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A gallery space with people standing around the perimeter of the room watching one person perform at the center. The performer is holding their leg up at a ninety degree angle in yellow loose clothes. 

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A dancer lays in a partial split on the floor of a gallery space with audience members watching at a distance. Their arms are bent behind them with the tips of their fingers touching.

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A performer dressed in yellow lays on the floor of a gallery space with audience members standing around the perimeter. They are laying on their side, propping their head up with their arm. 

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A performer dressed in yellow sits on the floor of a gallery space with audience members standing around the perimeter. They are curled up on their knees, propping their head up with their hands.

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A performer dressed in yellow stands with audience members by the wall of a gallery space. Five audience members are visibly standing on the left side of the performer, and three on the right. 

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A dance for lonely people

We welcome back Andrew Bartee to the Contemporary Art Gallery, who over successive visits in 2017 developed a series of individual performances in response to ideas and themes present within our exhibitions.

Forming part of his year-long residency at [Ballet BC](https://balletbc.com/), Bartee developed *A dance for lonely people* out of this research period at CAG. This new performance examines gesture and movement with a particular interest in audience in consideration of permeability of the fourth wall.

Please join us as Bartee performs in our B.C. Binning Gallery, first presented as part of CAG’s collaboration with IKG LIVE 2 Festival, Calgary, January 11 to 13, 2018.

### Biography

Andrew Bartee, from Everett, Washington, joined Ballet BC in 2014 and was the Artist in Residence for the 17/18 season. He studied on scholarship at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, WA and attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He was also the first recipient of the Fleming Halby exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet, a 2007 Princess Grace Award, and was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2015.

Andrew Bartee wearing a mastered-coloured outfit is posing for the audience in a gallery space. Audience sitting by the wall are looking at this artist’s ballet dancing.

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Andrew Bartee wearing a mastered-coloured outfit is kneeling down on the gallery floor to talk to some of the audience sitting besides the walls. The image was taken from the back of the artist.

Andrew Bartee wearing a mastered-coloured outfit is posing in the middle of a gallery space. Audience sitting by the wall are looking at this artist’s ballet dancing.

Andrew Bartee wearing a mastered-coloured outfit is squatting in the middle of the gallery space. The artist’s eyes are almost closed and casted down to the floor. 

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