new work (in development)
each | other is about those who are there in the aftermath, full of both hope and unrest. each | other draws on a raw, fierce, and tender energy necessary to build the foundation of what’s next. This work is not a comment on adversity and its impact, but rather on how the many little wars we work through create bonds with others that become strength in troubled times. each | other tackles the necessity of individuality within community, and the active negotiation that comes with committing to being together while holding on to oneself. This work exposes complexity and messiness, aiming to be and live inside of struggle and resolution.
each | other is staged in the round with a set that includes large clear plastic bags full of soil and an array of unstable mismatching patio furniture from different eras. As the work develops, the fragility of these constructed pieces comes to represent other kinds of instability. The pieces deconstruct and are refastened into a sculpture that occupies the overhead space between grid and stage floor, creating an oppressive gobo ceiling of human construction, filling the space with mottled light and shadow. The soil eventually covers the floor in a return to the earthly. Through the choreography and reconstruction of the playing space, each body experiences different extremes; a listening to each other and the limits of each body’s capacity to reach, endure, support, and tend becomes visible to the audience. How bodies transfer, build, and sustain energy together becomes a lesson in community.
support:
artistic team (currently): Heidi Strauss, Katie-Adams Gossage, Lukas Malkowski, Aerin Cho, Camellia Koo (set), Rebecca Picherack (lights), Jeremy Mimnagh (music), Sarah Doucet (costumes), Ginelle Chagnon (dramaturgy)
support:
artistic team (currently): Heidi Strauss, Katie-Adams Gossage, Lukas Malkowski, Aerin Cho, Camellia Koo (set), Rebecca Picherack (lights), Jeremy Mimnagh (music), Sarah Doucet (costumes), Ginelle Chagnon (dramaturgy)
dates:
technical residency: Arts Orillia, November 2027, Theatre Centre March 2028
Toronto: March 29-April 1 co-presented by The Theatre Centre and DanceWorks
Tour: Quebec City, La Rotonde April 19 & 20, 2028; Montreal, Agora April 26-28
technical residency: Arts Orillia, November 2027, Theatre Centre March 2028
Toronto: March 29-April 1 co-presented by The Theatre Centre and DanceWorks
Tour: Quebec City, La Rotonde April 19 & 20, 2028; Montreal, Agora April 26-28
Co-produced with Agora de la Danse, with support of Lead Donor The Lindy Green Family Foundation.
*looking for additonal residency opportunities and production partners
