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Dancemakers Presents: TWOBYTHREE a festival of duets
I know I'm biased, but everytime I think about the work being presented I can't wait to see it. For the first time in a festival format, Dancemakers brings together three pairings of artists who continue to use the duet as a powerful, compelling launch site for discussing human relationships – abroad, across Canada, and right here in Toronto. In an intimate setting, we'll encounter artists known to Toronto and some here for the first time – all with works playing on the boundaries of traditional forms, deepening our experiences in unexpected ways.
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Sauver sa Peau is a choreographic collaboration between Laïla Diallo (UK) and Mélanie Demers (Canada) born from a desire shared by both artists to creatively investigate questions linked to the multi-layered nature of identity. Created between Kenya, Canada and the UK, Sauver sa Peau has already left its mark across the world, and will have already toured to Montreal, the UK, Italy, France, and Quebec City, by the time it arrives in Toronto. Demers’ previous participation in Dancemakers Presents (Les angles morts, 2008) received two DORA nominations for Outstanding Choreography (Demers) and Outstanding Performance (Jacques Poulin-Denis). Ame Henderson and Matija Ferlin The Most Together We've Ever Been Henderson, recognized internationally for her boundary-pushing work in the performance world returns to Dancemakers with creative partner Matija Ferlin, who has presented and performed his own work across Europe, in New York and in Canada. While the two have collaborated since 2003 this new work marks the first time they share equally the roles of choreographer and dancer. The two take a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to creation, subverting common performance models. Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion Evenings one and two include their much heralded trilogy Both Sitting Duet (Thursday), The Quiet Dance and Speaking Dance (Friday). These works, which the New York Times called “the funniest and most ingenious dances seen in New York in a long time" are a humorous meditation on the nature of communication. Evening three (Saturday) features the North American premieres of Cheap Lecture and A Not Very Subtle Representation of Resilience though Dance. Cheap Lecture is a rhythmic spoken performance set to music, which borrows its structure from John Cage's Lecture on Nothing. In a rant about empty hands, audience, time, repetition and dancing, the duo reflect upon and continue the journey begun in their trilogy. It is followed by A Not Very Subtle Representation of Resilience through Dance, a chaotic meditation upon dance and mortality. This presentation is generously supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Artist Biographies Matija Ferlin is a graduate of The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. He has presented and performed his own work in Croatia, Montenegro, Portugal, Germany, Canada, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Austria and The Netherlands. His work includes several short movies (4:48 2003, Rework At The Freezing Point 2004, VUK Vorbild Und Kampf, 2006) and stage performances (Tepli Zdrhi 2001, Streptokok 2003, Sad Sam Revisited 2004/06, Drugo za jedno 2007). He has worked with artists Ivica Buljan (Madame de Sade and Jackie 2008), Maja Delak (Rodeo 2007), Ame Henderson (Blue Disco 2003, Manual For Incidence 2005, /Dance/Songs/ 2006) Sasha Waltz (Gezeiten 2005, Radial Dialogue 2006) Keren Levi (Territory 2005), Martin Butler (Luka & The Last Celebrity 2003, Phoenix 2005, David Zambrano (The Rabbit Project 2003), Karsten Liske (Historia 2006) and Christophe Chemin (Minor2:Salut 2007). Matija's sad sam /almost 6/ is selected to represent Croatia at the XIV Bienniale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Macedonia. Ame Henderson lives and works in Toronto. A performer and choreographer, she is the artistic director of Public Recordings. She completed her dance training at Concordia University in Montreal and continued at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Her works Blue**Disco (2002), memories and statements (2004), Manual for Incidence (2005), /Dance/Songs/ (2006), Open Field Study (all together now) (2007) and It was a nice party (Dancemakers, 2008) have been presented in The Netherlands, Italy, Croatia and across Canada. Her new creation relay premieres at Harbourfront Centre in April 2010. Ame has developed work in residence at Le Groupe (Ottawa), Studio 303 (Montreal) and Tangente (Montreal) as part of Clash, a choreographic research project directed by Lynda Gaudreau. As a performer she works regularly with Small Wooden Shoe, a theatre company directed by Jacob Zimmer. She has also recently performed in projects by Fiona Banner, Tino Sehgal and Jenn Goodwin. Ame is currently working on a masters degree in choreography at the Theaterschool of the Amsterdam School for the Arts. Mélanie Demers is a graduate of LADMMI (Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montréal). In 1998, she joined the internationally renowned dance company O Vertigo. At the same time, she enlarged her collaborative activities with emerging young choreographers. Working both as a dancer and a choreographer, Mélanie has presented her own work in Montréal, New York, Ouagadougou, Nairobi and Port-au-Prince. She has been involved in establishing a cultural center in Haïti for the last few years combining her aspirations as an artist with her social commitment. In 2005, she benefited from a six-week artist’s residency in Nairobi, sponsored by the UNESCO-Ashberg grant and the Gaàra Company of Kenya. In 2006, she was described as one of the 10 young choreographers to watch for in Montréal and toured for the occasion her Little Pocket Solo. Her work Les Angles Morts, created in 2006 is currently touring in Europe, Asia and America while her new project, Sauver sa Peau (Sense of Self) created in 2008 at Tangente, already toured in the UK and continues its way onto Europeans stages. In order to give a structure to the several activities she is involved in, lately, she constituted the company Mayday. Born in Canada, Laïla Diallo studied at L’École de Danse de Québec before travelling to La Rochelle and to London to pursue her training, respectively with Régine Chopinot and at the London Contemporary Dance School. In 1998, she received an MA in performance (distinction) from the University of Kent. Jonathan Burrows was born in 1960. He started his career as a soloist with the Royal Ballet in London but formed the Jonathan Burrows Group in 1988 to present his own work. The company travelled widely and gained an international reputation with pieces such as ‘Stoics’ (1991), ‘Very’ (1992), ‘Our’ (1994), ‘The Stop Quartet’ (1996) and ‘Things I Don’t Know’ (1997). In 2001 he presented ‘Weak Dance Strong Questions’, a collaboration with Dutch theatre director Jan Ritsema, which toured to 14 countries. Since 2002 he has collaborated with the composer Matteo Fargion on a trilogy of duets, "Both Sitting Duet" (2002), "The Quiet Dance" (2005) and "Speaking Dance"(2006). The duo have now given over 150 performances of this work in 37 countries, including winning a 2004 New York Dance And Performance "Bessie" Award. Other high profile collaborators include Sylvie Guillem’s performance of his choreography in Adam Robert’s film ‘Blue Yellow’ in 1996, and his invitation in 1997 to choreograph for William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt. In 2008 he was Associate Director on Peter Handke's 'The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other' for the National Theatre, London. He was an associate artist 1992- 2002 at Kunstencentrum Vooruit in Gent, Belgium, and was Artist-In-Residence at London’s South Bank Centre 1998/9. In 2002 Jonathan was given an award by the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts In New York, in recognition for his ongoing contributions to contemporary dance. He is a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S, the school of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in Brussels, and is also a Visiting Professor for the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University Of London. Matteo Fargion was born in Milan, Italy in 1961. He studied composition with Kevin Volans at the University of Natal, South Africa, and later with Howard Skempton in London. He met Jonathan Burrows in 1988, and has since written music for many of his pieces, including ‘Dull Morning’, ‘Stoics’, ‘Very’, ‘Our’, ‘Hands’, ‘The Stop Quartet’ (with Kevin Volans) and ‘Things I Don't Know’, in which he also performed ‘Donna Che Beve’ for 3 amplified cardboard boxes. Matteo has also written music for theatre including an oratorio (‘Das Kontingent’) commissioned by and performed at the Schaubühne Berlin and TAT Frankfurt, a chamber opera (‘Le Bellezze d’Hortensia’) at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, as well as incidental music for many productions at the Residenz Theater Munich. In 2004 he wrote music for Thomas Ostermeier’s prize winning production of Jon Fosse's new play ‘The Girl on the Sofa’ shown at the Edinburgh International Festival, and in 2005 he collaborated and performed in Canadian choreographer Lynda Gaudreau’s ‘Document 4’ in Gent, Belgium. His piece ‘Duets’, written in collaboration with Kevin Volans, is released on Black Box Records. Matteo also runs composition workshops at PARTS, the school of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in Brussels. |
Steeve Paquet,, Robert Abubo
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Ben Kamino, Robert Abubo
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Kate Hilliard, Kate Holden, Clinton Draper, Ben Kamino. (Double Bill #1: Henderson)
Ben Kamino, Kate Hilliard
(It's about time)