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SummerWorks Performance Festival
August 1-11, 2024

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Two dancers are captured by camera from above. They lay facing each other with their heads resting on a white windowsill. The dancers are softly smiling, holding their hands out with the backs of their palms in front of each other’s noses. Both dancers are wearing collared teal shirts, one lighter and one darker. The dancer on the left has short, curly dark brown hair; the dancer on the right has shoulder length straight brown hair. Photo Credit: Ellen Moore

52 (navigation)

Dance

Ellen Moore / Dance Arts Institute

Venue
The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance

Aug 3, 7:00PM *

Aug 4, 9:00PM

Aug 5, 4:00PM (RP)

Aug 6, 4:00PM

40-50 minutes

Ticket Price
$15, $25, $35

Two dancers are captured by camera from above. They lay facing each other with their heads resting on a white windowsill. The dancers are softly smiling, holding their hands out with the backs of their palms in front of each other’s noses. Both dancers are wearing collared teal shirts, one lighter and one darker. The dancer on the left has short, curly dark brown hair; the dancer on the right has shoulder length straight brown hair. Photo Credit: Ellen Moore

A study in intimacy, form, and task-based improvisation.

Expanding on a previous study, 52 (navigation) investigates the abstract emergence of an interpersonal relationship through the embodiment of seemingly unrelated or slightly strange tasks. Dancers make choices as they pass through several sets of sensation, form, and movement based improvisational tasks, both together and within their own bodies. With an awareness of presence, patience, and vulnerability, dancers navigate their relationships to the self, each other, and the structure of a world.

52 (navigation) aims to deepen the understanding of a specific improvisational score and further explore its potential to physicalize psychological or emotional experiences. The task sets are inspired by several physical concepts, including circularity, weight-bearing, and proximity. Although the general arc remains largely consistent, dancers use their agency within the score to create differing forms for each performance.

* There is a 15-minute post-show Q+A on August 3rd, facilitated by Amanda Acorn.

Ellen Moore – Choreographer
Amelia Brown, Micaela Janse Van Rensburg – Dancers
Amanda Acorn – Choreographic Mentor
Helin Gungoren – Production/Stage Manager
George Stamos – Project Manager

This SummerWorks Lab presentation is part of a double-bill with within sensation, and part of an ongoing partnership with Dance Arts Institute (formerly The School of Toronto Dance Theatre) that is generously supported by Lindy Green and Sam Chaiton as the Winchester Prize.

There is a Relaxed Performance (RP) on August 5th.

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Part of the SummerWorks Lab programming – a place for exploration, experimentation, and process. In the Lab, you can experience new works in development from artists exploring new possibilities in performance.

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