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CHRONIC NEED is a work by Alicia Grant in collaboration with Andrea Spaziani.

My interest is how to work at sculpting an endlessly recurrent, infinitely present and troublesome need.

By working with presence and absence, Andrea and I are working at shifting our modes of perception. How can we receive the information of the wigs, the public, discomfort and pleasure? How do we stay with the unnameable?

The wigs, for me, are our field of ghosts. Frightening and powerful, empty yet full.

Throughout the process, I encouraged long physical tangents to arrive at a distilled, fierce and confusing situation where the dance could occur.

It’s a hyperfeminine garbage bag:

it’s about

needs

it’s about

desires

it’s about

necessity

it’s about

time

it’s about

what doesn’t leave you

it’s about

what’s always with you

it’s about

something that’s always there

Curated by Ben Kamino & Emi Foster

ArtisTs

acCessibilIty

Yes, the venue is wheelchair accessible including ramps into the building, elevators and wheelchair accessible washrooms.

All live events will offer ASL interpretation (upon request). Please contact us to request ASL Interpretation.

This performance does not include audio description.

A work by Alicia Grant in collaboration with Ellen Furey

Throughout the performance, the two performers develop methods for resistance and resilience through dance moves and life moves. They engage in the labour of transformation of both themselves and the space. They participate in versions of self and environment that are constantly destabilized. 

The work is located inside the artifice and reality of a black box theatre. It fully exists because it is being experienced by others. 

The two performers have some help from a gong, fantastical dream outfits and hot water bottles. There is fear, there is desperation, there is joy. 

Is the light at the end of the tunnel an end or a beginning? 

Curated by Ben Kamino & Emi Foster

ArtisTs

acCessibilIty

Yes, the venue is wheelchair accessible including ramps into the building, elevators and wheelchair accessible washrooms.

All live events will offer ASL interpretation (upon request). Please contact us to request ASL Interpretation.

This performance does not include audio description.

Rosé Porn is a live cinematic sound work in which the audience plays part in making the architectural space.

This work is intended for an intimate audience, where people are invited to circulate — to sit, to walk, to lie down, to close their eyes, to take pictures, to check out, etc… 

Throughout the duration of an hour, 3 performers build environments/spaces in which a “dance” or “song” can/will occur. Where and how these installations take form varies, always in relation to who is in the room, and what shape the room takes according to who is there.  

Rosé Porn is based on fabricated memories. Memories generated purposefully in the studio, through repetition, in order to be able to write a song, make a dance, talk about what happened and what is happening as material for viewing. 

Curators’ Note:

This work is so far somewhat indescribable. We can say surely that this artistic work, conceived by Zoja Smutny,
locates itself at an intersection between the exhibition space, the performance venue and the dance theatre.
I have listened to Smutny describe the work as “a dance of an environment,” as the dance itself constructs a space
in which all participate as performers, audience and players alike. Continuously evaded throughout these actions of
describing the work are the feelings produced from this very special scenario… 

Rosé Porn is an investigation of proximity(s): of the spectator to their body, of dance to space, of sound to image, and
of all the other intricate undergoings of a room that itself is dancing with you in it. I must admit that this description is
bound to fall short in articulating the sensitivity of feelings emergent in the space of this astounding new dance. 

Artists

acCessibilIty

Yes, the venue is wheelchair accessible including ramps into the building, elevators and wheelchair accessible washrooms.

All live events will offer ASL interpretation (upon request). Please contact us to request ASL Interpretation.

This performance does not include universal audio description. If you are interested in a whisper-guide experience, please email artistic@dancemakers.org.