Art Holm no. 5

Art Holm brings you three incredible performances, filmed by a talented team of artists and filmmakers. We are forever grateful for your work.

A note on Closed Captions and sound: in the first performance the music moves between joy and dark distortion. The music in the second performance takes the viewer along a journey from an ambient sound scape, to busy street sounds, to cinematic grandness, concluding with a heartbeat wrapped in silence.

The final performance contains lyrics, please click the CC in the bottom right corner for Closed Captions.

WHO

Joanna Hawkins - Joanna has always felt a strong connection to the arts. She is a skilled artist (drawing & painting), graphic designer and photographer, but her real dream had always been with acting. Joanna has performed as a lead in a children’s show for young deaf children and has been involved in several films in Manitoba as a featured extra as well as two television commercials. Joanna has been professionally trained in mime, physical comedy and storytelling by the award winning Hot Thespian Action’s Shannon Guile-Hardy.

Jordan Sangalang - Jordan made his performing debut during high school in Florida, where he signed songs all around the state. He had his professional theatre debut performing a play called Tribes written by Nina Raine as Billy and a play with music called The Threepenny Opera written by Bertolt Brecht as Mr. Peachum. He did ASL performances including poetry at World Poetry Day, songs with Raine Hamilton and storytelling at the Storytelling Festival. Jordan aspires to show audiences the beauty of building connections through ideas and feelings in ASL.

Rob Crooks - Rob is a musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He holds an MA in philosophy from Brock University and works as an arts instructor with Graffiti Art Programming. As a musician, he has traveled across Canada and Europe performing his original compositions, and has released several albums, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with a wide-range of musicians. His latest so lo. project, ‘...and the nothing from which nothing comes,’ was released in 2018 by Disintegration Records. in Canada and Marathon of Dope in Belgium. He has also worked in film, recently starring as the eponymous character in Mike Maryniuk’s feature length film, ‘The Goose.’

Gwen Trutnau - Gwen Trutnau is a filmmaker, designer, musician, FX makeup artist, and stylist living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Gwen’s existence is comprised of designing original clothing and accessories, fabricating prosthetics, making super 8 films and playing analog musical equipment. Her interest includes ancient mysticism, vintage synthesizers, street style, horror films, heavy music, and subculture.

Tanja Faylene Woloshen - Tanja is a contemporary dance artist and educator. Her work investigates the earth and cosmos of the somatic imagination. She has performed her works, and collaborations with others, across Canada, USA, and Europe. Most recently, she received a Winnipeg Theatre Award Outstanding Choreography Nomination, for her choreography for Theatre Projects Manitoba’s World Premiere of “A Short History of Crazy Bone” (2018). In 2017, Tanja debuted “Holy Wild”, and presented “Dance as a Decolonizing Process”, at the IEATA annual conference. She is ongoing with her training, including recent studies with Victoria Hunt, Vangeline, Thom Morgan Jones, and GooSayTen. Recent teaching credits include U Lethbridge, U Winnipeg, PTE, and W.H.E.A.T.