Lifelong partners, Karen and Allen Kaeja, share an intimate rendering of life together in dance and marriage. Still dancing in their 60's, their duets embrace artistic excellence and the agelessness of life and love. Kaeja d’Dance’s lifeDUETs are a duet commissioning series for Karen and Allen Kaeja’s lifelong creative and personal partnership. Many duets have toured across the world through Canada and to Spain, India, England, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela and Israel. Karen and Allen will be performing two lifeDUETs - Lasterday by choreography Hanna Kiel and 25 to 1 by choreographer Tedd Robinson.

Choreographer Hanna Kiel has created with Lasterday, a work filled with swagger, joy and the multifaceted complexity of relationships. Two individuals who carry different memories and perceptions of the same events from their past, delve into their relationship - sense of timeline, emotional impacts, and interactions through their memory and interpretation of shared history.

The late Tedd Robinson’s duet for Karen and Allen, 25 to 1, is seeded in 25 positions of tenderness. 25 to 1 is an intimate rendering of living life together in dance, the business and the art, sometimes invisibly supported by each other, other times directly in opposition, but always working within the safe shelter of a kiss.

Be a community guest dancer in BC:

To close this beautiful evening of dance, the Sointula (June 7 and 8) and Port McNeill (June 6) performances will end with community guests joining Karen and Allen onstage in an end-of-show movement celebration called In Case of Fire. Each community dancer will have a 1-minute improvisation that's inspired by each other. NO DANCE EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY and minimum age is 15 for a multi-generational group! To perform in the closing performance email in Port McNeill or Sointula, contact Mary-Louise at 604.970.3206 or movementartsbc@gmail.com