DanceWorks, Toronto’s longest running contemporary dance series, presents the world premiere of elsewhere, an adelheid dance projects production choreographed by its award-winning Artistic Director, Heidi Strauss. This highly anticipated work launches DanceWorks’ 2014-15 season and runs September 25-27 at Harbourfront Centre Theatre as part of Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps.
The newest work by acclaimed choreographer Heidi Strauss, elsewhere takes inspiration from the anthropological concept of ‘affect’ – our human capacity to affect, or be affected. The choreography maps a condition that gives everyday life a quality of continual motion, felt within impulses, expectations and encounters; an internal graph of lived intensities. A kinetic meditation, elsewhere bears witness to our resilience, posing moments of tenderness, force, and surrender as what bears witness to our resilience.
Performed by five remarkable dancers - Danielle Baskerville, Miriah Brennan, Luke Garwood, Molly Johnson and Brendan Wyatt – who lend a vivid intimacy to the work which is the company’s first independent creation for an ensemble, also bringing together talented designers Jeremy Mimnagh (sound & projection), Rebecca Picherack (lighting) and Teresa Przybylski (set & costume).
adelheid will also partner with Grimm Pictures to create a series of short films based on elsewhere, co-created by Grimm’s Laura Taler, adelheid’s Artistic Associate Jeremy Mimnagh and Strauss. These will be screened in public contexts where dance is not usually seen in Toronto, including Pattison Onestop subway platforms, shopping malls, underground walkways and high-rise elevators. The films will move elsewhere into the realm of public art.
Five years in the making, elsewhere has been supported by partnerships across Canada forged in the earliest stages of research and development, including residencies at the Theatre Centre (Toronto), Public Energy (Peterborough) and Dance Victoria (Victoria, B.C.). After its Toronto premiere, elsewhere will be presented at Public Energy (Oct. 10), Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts (Oakville, Oct. 8) and Danse Cité (Montreal, Oct. 1-4). The presenting partnerships that follow the premiere represent a commitment rare in the culture of contemporary dance, where the life of a choreographic work is so often transient.
Info at a glance:
DanceWorks presents the world premiere of adelheid dance projects‘
elsewhere
as part of Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps
Choreography: Heidi Strauss
Performers: Danielle Baskerville, Miriah Brennan, Luke Garwood, Molly Johnson, Brendan Wyatt
Sound and Projection Design: Jeremy Mimnagh
Set and Costume Design: Teresa Przyblyski
Lighting Design: Rebecca Picherack
Outside Eye: Ginelle Chagnon
Film Collaborators: Laura Taler/Grimm Pictures, Jeremy Mimnagh
Thursday, September 25 to Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 8PM (Post-show Talkback: Friday, Sept 26)
Harbourfront Centre Theatre (formerly Enwave Theatre)
231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON M5J 2G8
Tickets: $28 – $37 Adult; $15 CultureBreak (Students under 25); Discount for Seniors and groups.
Harbourfront Centre Box Office: 416-973-4000 OR online: www.danceworks.ca