Performance
Future Dances
Mar 12, 2025 | 12:00PM
FADO Performance Art Centre (401 Richmond St W Toronto)
CURATOR
Guest Curator Model
CHOREOGRAPHER
Various
We want to know what dance might look like in 2074. What will happen to dance, choreography over the next two generations?
This is a speculative choreography project in which nine artists have been tasked with creating a dance for 50 years into the future. We want to know, now, what dance might look like in 2074. What will happen to dance, choreography and stops in between over the next two generations.
This is a thought experiment and a real exercise that considers what the role, purpose, form and potential of dance (as well as performance, choreography, movement, or adjacent and related forms such as performance art) might be at this critical convergence of the climate crisis, violent international conflicts and political upheaval.
Participating artists will present a range of responses—a short performance, written score, film, audio-recording, descriptive essay or something yet imagined.
supportTHEsupport by Margaret Dragu
untitled by Johnny Forever Nawracaj
waiting for the future to remember the past by Nova Bhattacharya
Time to Wake Up by Freya Björg Olafson
Future Tap Dance by Travis Knights
Between a River and Lightning by Lee Su-Feh
Future Dances by Laura Taler
live performance by Ronnie Clarke (with Harry Clarke)
live performance by Ravyn Wngz
essay by abisola oni
Inspiration includes: Jesse Wente’s lecture on CBC Ideas
Artists
Laura Taler
Romanian-born Canadian artist Laura Taler began her career as a contemporary dance choreographer before turning her attention to filmmaking and visual art.
Margaret Dragu
Margaret Dragu works in video, installation, web & analogue book publication, and performance art. Her performances span relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices.
Ravyn Wngz
Ravyn Wngz “The Black Widow of Burlesque” is an Afro-Indigenous, 2Spirit, Queer and Transcendent multidisciplinary art maker, curator and empowerment storyteller.
Travis Knights
Travis Knights. Tap Dancer. Performer. Choreographer. Speaker. Believer.
Lee Su-Feh
Lee Su-Feh (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performance-maker and teacher of voice and movement.
Johnny Forever Nawracaj
Johnny Forever Nawracaj is a non-binary Polish-born performance and media artist currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Ronnie Clarke
Ronnie Clarke is a movement and sound artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario.
Nova Bhattacharya
Nova Bhattacharya is an award-winning artist, cultural innovator, and unapologetic trailblazer based in Tkaronto.
Freya Björg Olafson
Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, animation, motion capture, XR, painting, and performance.
abisola oni
abisola oni is a performance artist, writer, and curator based in Tkaronto.
acCessibilIty
Is the venue wheelchair accessible?
Yes, the venue is wheelchair accessible including ramps into the building, elevators and wheelchair accessible washrooms.
Will the event be ASL Interpreted?
All live events will offer ASL interpretation (upon request). Please contact us to request ASL Interpretation.
Will the event be described for Blind and low vision audiences?
This performance does not include audio description.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
SUPPORTED BY
otheR eveNts
The First 16 Years
A description of the first 16 years of Dancemakers for the 50th Anniversary Archive Project.
Jul 17, 1974 - Jul 17, 1990
10 Interviews
Mairéad Filgate interviewed 10 dancers from the early years of Dancemakers.
Nov 14, 1974 - Nov 14, 1974
Behind The Scenes with Mark Hammond
An interview with Mark Hammond, the Dancemakers' administrator during the early collective.
Nov 14, 1974 - Nov 14, 1977