Wheezy Breezy

Focusing on the necessary act of breath that bodies unconsciously choreograph is a way to reveal how bodies have been interrupted by eugenics insistence to “return to normal”.

Wheezy Breezy is a self-directed residency by dancers jes sachse & Sarah Wong welcomed by personal invitation through support in access & incubation during the 2023-2024 season by Arts Assembly. 

Arts Assembly was chosen as one of the Guest Curators for Dancemakers Centre for Creation 2023-2024 season, and Dancemakers is excited to support Wheezy Breezy‘s further development and public presentation in the summer of 2024 in Toronto. 

From jes and Sarah:

“Our collaborative research sits in the complexities of navigating our dance practices as disabled artists breathing through the ongoing pandemic. Focusing on the necessary act of breath that bodies unconsciously choreograph is a way to reveal how bodies have been interrupted by eugenics insistence to “return to normal”. Leaning into accessibility interrupts capital procedure by nurturing creative adaptation of one moment to the next. We are experimenting with dancing in relationship with the medical, with aesthetic, with public space, and with the improvisations of sonic accompaniment, looking to traditions of busking and jazz music.

As we move in step with grief, we make space for candid conversations of coexisting with ghosts, aesthetics of ease vs. effort, community and site-specificity, the found & the fallow. We find deep joy in the solidarity we have found in each other knowing in our creature-bodies that breathing is the circadian recalibration of the collective.”

Choreographers: jes Sache & Sarah Wong