_GO_
Phase III of the Fluid Series
A look at bathroom culture. A peek inside a woman's washrooms at a night club. Public, Private. Spoken, unspoken. Exposed and hidden With bathroom door stalls as a projection backdrop, video will be used to expose the private and morph the public. Exposing what is going on behind closed doors while also distorting and magnifying what we see outside the doors. Text is taken from graffiti from bathroom walls. Go blurs the lines between every day culture and performance and dance.

_SPIT_
Smoking solos, gum chewing combos, necking duets and spitting images.
Phase II of The Fluid Series, SPIT explores the body fluid- Saliva. With images projected on a dripping wet backdrop SPIT is a look at addiction, lust, desire and saliva.

Choreographed by: Jenn Goodwin
Danced by: Justine Chambers, Jenn Goodwin, Marq Frerichs, Darryl Tracy
Soundscape: Ed Hanley/Peaches
Video: Dar Higden and Jenn Goodwin

_WET_ a diary of desire
An abstract movement diary that touches on lust, shame, frustration, excitement, boredom, pleasure, ecstasy, porn, friction, love and sex.

Choreographed by: Jenn Goodwin
Danced by: Justine Chambers
Soundscape: Ed Hanley Lighting Design: Sharon DiGenova
Text: Lisa Gabriele, Malcolm Brown (pixel board)

Part I of the Fluid Series. Created in part at a dance residency program at The Theatre Centre. Wet was also performed at Dixon Place Theatre in New York City and at Studio 303 in Montreal. Wet explores fantasy and desire through the mind and body of one woman. Intimate, subjective and personal material, yet universal in many ways. together, alone the erotic self body as a whole, body in sections disect your desire

_SKID_ (2000)
Two girls, a ghetto blaster and love of guitar rock. Hair bands and hickeys, tight jeans & rock and roll. The movement is guitar influenced- from the actual instrument- it's shape, sound, how it is held and used to the musicians who use them and the audience who gather to adore them and the attitude that often comes hand in hand.

Choreography: Jenn Goodwin with Sarah Doucet
Dancer: Sarah Doucet, Jenn Goodwin
Music: Julietta McGovern (live Guitar)
Video: Sandra Dametto

_FUCKING & FIGHTING_
This duet tells the story of a (un) romantic relationship from start to finish. However, the piece begins with the finish and ends at the start at the relationship. Sometimes touching, sometimes dark and sometimes humorous, this piece explores one couples struggle to deal with the fine line between love and hate. A duet exploring dependence/independence, desire, denial, betrayal, love and anger and laundry.

Fucking and Fighting was a strong duet for the excellent Ayelen Liberona and Miko Sobreira. Theirs is a love/hate relationship with abuse on both sides. A bed sheet transforms the duet into trio and becomes a metaphor for both their outward tug-of-war and burning inner anger. Goodwin's strength here is her ability to portray the dynamics of the two as a couple, as well as presenting them as quite different individuals.
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_LIAR_ (1999)
Created in 1998 it is a solo choreographed and performed by Goodwin that explores issues of truth, confessions and lies. With a backdrop of projection of text and images, Goodwin dances to an original score by media artist Sandra Dametto that includes excerpts of text from soap operas and pornographic films. In this work, she explores through text and movement, various "societal" lies from Santa Clause to sex to taxes and love. While also exploring personal confessions again through movement and text from smoking to self-pleasure to knitting and loneliness. The piece is lyrical and highly physical with breaks of "reality" as Goodwin steps outside the performance to allow the audience to decide what is true, and what is not.

Inspired by the life and work of American concept artist Jenny Holzer and beautifully performed by Goodwin herself. The title is a misnomer, because the droll, stream-of-consciousness text/movement piece contains as many truths as it does lies. Sandra Dametto's minimalist score, infused with fragments of real soap-opera dialogue, is the backdrop against which Goodwin set this dance of true, and not so true, confessions. In fact, all our lives contain soap-opera elements, with fresh disasters lurking around every corner. Goodwin's Liar is a glimpse of an all-too human woman and the defence mechanisms she has put in place in order to cope.
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_SNEAKER_ (1997)
Sneaker is a duet that was conceived by Goodwin and co-choreographed by Sarah Doucet and Goodwin in 1997. Sneaker is a story of two women who after a night out decide they are going to hitch hike out of town. It has been performed in various venues in Montreal and Toronto including studio, cabaret and club environments to great success. The Globe and Mail said: The humorous Should Have Worn My Sneakers depicted two foxy ladies in lamé dresses after a night carousing on the town. The two are hitch-hiking, but it is for a metaphoric ride to a better place. What gives this piece depth is the haunting inner turmoil that lies behind their world-weary, sarcastic demeanour.

Choreography: Jenn Goodwin & Sarah Doucet
Performers: Jenn Goodwin & Sarah Doucet. 1999 - (Nicola Pantin & Ayelen)
Music: La Funk Mob

_STINK_ (1998)
An acrobatic piece investigating the themes of balance, between body and environment, movement and stasis and nature and artifice. Costumed in astro-turf vest and pine scented car deodorizers.

An offering by Toronto choreographer and dancer Jenn Goodwin stretches the conventions of dance to demonstrate the restrictions that the culture of the city place on the human spirit. Goodwin and dancers Marlee Cargill and Nicola Pantin perform an acrobatic piece in which they investigate the theme of balance, between body and environment, movement and stasis and nature and artifice. Costumed in astro-turf vest and pine scented car deodorizers, the dancers perform while dangling from a tree, attached, and to an extent, confined, by large elastic harnesses. Stink forces the dancers to push physical boundaries and explore the contradictions of balance and movement in an environment that echoes them. The musical accompaniment consists of a ghetto blaster, and percussionist Ed Hanley- all suspended from the tree also. -- The National Post