DANCE PROGRESS SHOWINGS
curated by Deviani Andrea, Good Women Dance Collective
lighting design by Adam Luijkx
stage managed by Andrea Murphy
talkbacks lead by Deviani Andrea
The Nextfest Arts Company is dedicated to developing the work of emerging artists and giving opportunities for feedback and growth to projects that are still in development.
A Progress Showing is an opportunity for artists to show a work-in-progress to an audience and receive feedback with a talk back afterwards.
Dance Progress Showing 1
Lorne Cardinal Theatre @ the Roxy
Tuesday, June 10 at 5:00 pm Talkback after this performance
Dance Progress Showing 2
Nancy Power Theatre @ the Roxy
Thursday, June 12 at 4:00 pm Talkback after this performance
KALYNA HOWELL-MATWICHUK – THEY*/she but “she” belongs to me. USE “THEY” ONLY. presents
WHERE DID MY BODY GO???
choreographed by Kalyna Howell-Matwichuk
People want to see art that does not remind anybody of their trauma. This, is not that. Women and our bodies, my own body, have been brought to our knees: silenced – our reactions, our dissent, our resistance to violence being framed as violence itself. Angry women named as threats and punished as evil. My work brings patriarchal trauma and its unrelenting effects on a woman’s body to the forefront. A chaotic duality between myself and the audience I hope evokes in the viewer a gumption of spirit.
A woman, committed to having a body fighting the cementation of what has happened to it, while still in the midst of disbelief of what did. I bounce between a bold, Broadway conviction that I *will win*, and the somatic urgency that I have not, so many times.
The drastic diminishing of a woman’s pride mixed with their hardheaded opposite that insists on the stubborn assertion: A WOMAN CAN STILL WIN. Finally
Teagan Ariss presents
What is found (excerpt)
choreographed by Teagan Ariss
featuring Maya Gale-Buncel, Kathy Le, and Blythe Russell
What is found is a contemporary dance work in development that examines the role of movement in communication, addressing themes of hearing, listening and being heard.
Following an abstract conversation, performers express a desire to be heard through voice, gesture, body language, and facial expression. They attempt to find agreement and understanding while calling attention to the necessity of movement in communication and the capacity for a gesture’s explicit and interpretive expression.
The work asks: how do our bodies speak for us and what do we understand through movement?
Aylie Mohr presents
Courageous to Overcome
choreographed by Aylie Mohr
featuring Aylie Mohr, Mercedes Verville, Isabelle O’Flaherty, Kayleigh Amurao, Mikala Dyck, Shukri Mohamud, and Berlin Anderson
A remembrance of what we have gone through, and how far we’ve come. Not a regret filled reminiscence, but a grateful look-back. Look at how far we’ve made it despite everything. Look at how we’ve chosen to move forward, towards something greater. There is a plan ahead of me, even though I may not be aware of it. Through our struggles, we are connected and tied to one another in ways beyond what meets the eye; but our journey is still our own. Let us live a life the greatest extent.
Romero Dance Collective presents
Torment
choreographed by Annabella Oster
featuring Addie Pearce, Anna Rosychuk, Annabella Oster, Gabi McDonald, Kira Kirkpatrick, and Miah Ross
Exploring the internal struggle of life, this dance contemplates the burden of existence. The choreography portrays a deep yearning for escape from an unyielding life by whatever means necessary. As the movement unfolds, there is a tension between the desire to break free and the temptation to numb the pain, symbolized by moments of stillness, desperation, and a gradual surrender to the weight of it all.
Alec Turgeon presents
more than myth: bone, skin, eyelashes, teeth
choreographed by Alec Turgeon
featuring Casey Jason Roy
Through time, through space: we embody the shifting states that plague trans* existence under the current sociopolitical landscape. we offer a counter-narrative to the wave of hysterical trans-antagonism by assuming our right to authorship, making possible a more nuanced portrayal of trans* life.
