Don't miss Sarah Chase in Toronto!
We are excited to announce that Sarah Chase, a core artistic collaborator of Dreamwalker, will be in Toronto during the month of April!
CITADEL SRING MIX PRESENTS
The door opened west
April 10 - 11, 2024 at 7:00pm
Choreographed by Sarah Chase and performed by Marc Boivin
With modesty and sensitivity, Marc Boivin performs an autobiographical solo that sheds light on the mysterious architecture of memory. With his arms and words, he summons vibrant light beams from the darkness, erecting the delicate architecture of his life story. The veteran dancer trades his virtuosity for a humble language of the heart, in a dialogue with darkness and light. Slowly developed over five years in collaboration with Boivin, the choreography by Sarah Chase alternates between apparition and disappearance and gracefully celebrates the language of the body, a treasure trove of memories.
This solo marks the culmination of a trinity of story telling works created by Sarah for three pivotal people in her life.
A crazy kind of hope, for Andrea Nann
Unmoored, for Peggy Baker
The door opened west, for Marc Boivin
Don't miss the chance to see this intimate autobiographical work with one of Canada’s extraordinary performers.
STORY, NARRATIVE & MEMORY WORKSHOP WITH SARAH CHASE
Wednesday April 17 from 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre,
504 Parliament Street
COST $75
“When I make work I am hoping that by arranging personal stories in a careful constellation, they become universal. A kind of poetic logic and rigour takes place, making sure that not more is said than needs to be said.” - Sarah Chase
the workshop…
Sarah Chase will offer a three-hour intensive workshop focusing on how to draw upon story, narrative and memory from our own lives to create gestures and movement patterns in new and unexpected ways.
For many years her work has been centred on biography, memoir and storytelling, overlayed with looped sequences of gestures. She searches for ways in which people may share their rich inner worlds and magnify the gestures that belong to them in a danced expressive language.
biography…
Sarah Chase is based on Hornby Island, in the Salish Sea. She is a performer and choreographer whose distinctive signature has garnered her an international reputation. Her work has been presented across Canada and Europe.
Sarah has created work for many Canadian artists including Toronto Dance Theatre, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Dreamwalker and Andrea Nann, Heidi Strauss and Darryl Tracy, Theatre Replacement, Jacinte Armstrong, Robin Poitras and Ron Stewart, Antonija Livingstone, Montreal Danse and Marc Boivin. Sarah is the recipient of the 2004 Jacqueline Lemieux Award for Excellence from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Prize of the Festival at the 2006 Munich Dance Biennale. She is an associate dance artist of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
ALL OF OUR DREAMING
new interactive website!
www.allofourdreaming.com menu page by Elysha Poirier
Sarah is also a major contributor to our new website, www.allofourdreaming.com an intimate web performance experience designed by Dreamwalker core collaborator Elysha Poirier and Omar Faleh
Enter the site to experience a collection of autobiographical embodied stories honouring dreaming, changing and letting go, including films of A Crazy Kind of Hope (by Sarah Chase), In a Landscape (by Peggy Baker), Dual Light (by Andrea Nann with Yuichiro Inoue and Naishi Wang) and Forever Young (featuring Andy Maize), with Sarah’s 'beyond this world’ pond photographs creating an every evolving environment which comes alive through Elysha’s sublime video animation.
All of Our Dreaming is co-created by:
Performers: Andrea Nann, Yuichiro Inoue, Naishi Wang, Andy Maize
Choreographers: Peggy Baker, Sarah Chase, Andrea Nann
Dramaturge: Sarah Chase
Creative contributor: Brendan Wyatt
Web experience design: Elysha Poirier & Omar Faleh
Directors and editors of film content: Henry Mak, Yasuhiro Okada
Directors of photography: Eric Chan, Daniel Loan
Assistant camera: Sophia Mai Wolfe
Sound designers/composers: Joshua Van Tassel, Sarah Chase, Antoine Bedard
Additional music (A Crazy Kind of Hope) by: Justin Rutledge
Production lighting designers: Noah Feaver, James Proudfoot, Eric Chan
Costume and set designer (In a Landscape): Cheryl Lalonde
Pond photography: Sarah Chase
River conversations: Richard Nann with Andrea Nann
Technical director: A.J. Morra
Particle systems for ‘A River Beyond’: Jérôme Delapiere
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