Go With One
Carla Melo, Elisa Hollenberg, Erica McDowell, James Andreadis, Jonah Hundert, Linus Ip, Lo Bil, Neil Clifford, Real Eguchi, Tess Takahashi
Choreographed by: Suzanne Liska
Choreographed by: Suzanne Liska
On this internal solo journey we recall memories of touch, and experience unexpected immediate touch by others. With our eyes closed, our other senses are heightened as a way of understanding the space we’re occupying and our emotional state in relation to the other. The urge to resist our changing situation may be strong, or we may want to completely allow the control of another. When we open our eyes to see the group, our sense of both separateness and connection heightens. We may choose to include one, exclude another, or exclude ourselves. Whatever the choice, we are each on separate journeys and yet together. The audience will observe us making in-the-moment decisions, shifting from one state to another through improvised structures. This spontaneous process demands attention and awareness of ourselves and each other. We will stir intimacy and surprise ourselves, with the intention of offering the audience an embodied experience while witnessing dance.
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_Suzanne Liska is a dancer and teacher, Co-Artistic Director of Flightworks, and co-founder of the aLoft Project. As a company dancer for Kathleen Rea's Reason d'Etre Dance Productions, Suzanne danced in the three-times Dora Award nominated "Long Live" and for "Vivid 4". She has also danced for choreographers Karen Kaeja, Pam Johnson, and Sue Lee, and has performed at Dusk Dances, Dance Matters, Art Whispers, DARK and Harbourfront Centre, as well as many other venues and festivals. Suzanne teaches professional dancers, actors, and community dancers. Suzanne is a faculty teacher at Randolph Academy for Performing Arts.
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Elisa Hollenberg has danced from the young age of 7-17, with formal training in ballet, jazz and modern. She went on to focus on improvisational and less formal dance forms such as voice and movement practice and the 5Rhythms practice, which she has studied since 2002. Elisa has a keen interest in seeing how imrovisational dance practices may transform into choreography, and therefore started the Create-Move-Connect project to experiment with creating dance pieces and choreography with improvisational dancers.
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James Andreadis studied at Humber College for Theatre Performance, where he discovered his passion for movement, there being heavily influenced by his Clown teacher, Dean Gilmour. He has since then pursued clown with such talent as Helen Donnelly and Francine Cote. He has recently been in the production "As the Foo Turns," a clown show as part of the Toronto Festival of Clowns. James has also developed a passion for contact improvisation. He wishes to continually uncover new ways in which the body can move with lightness and freedom; and to explore the endless possibilities of multiple bodies in a space.
Jonah Hundert is an actor and theatre creator. He has trained in various styles of performance in Canada, the UK, and Poland. As a founding member of WORKhouse Theatre, he has been involved in working with emerging playwrights developing new works for the stage, as well as working as an actor and producer. Most recently, Jonah has been performing for young audiences with Little Fingers' *Rock Garden Party*.
Linus C.F. Ip believes in the ubiquitous presence of artistic imperative. Grounded in lived experiences of everyday life, her artistic quest is driven by a desire for authenticity, which she takes as a condition for transcendence. Her decades of struggle with pain has facilitated her access to the sacred core of our being-in-the-world. Her work threads together improvisation, movement, drumming, photography... She has worked in North America, Asia, and Africa. She is the founding president of Between Arts and Human Services.
lo bil is a writer-performer based in Toronto. Lo's work has been presented at 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, Nuit Blanche, the Edinburgh Fringe, Toronto Fringe, box salon, Lab Cab and in site-specific contexts. Lo has an Honours B.A. From the University of Toronto in Cinema, Semiotics and Philosophy, is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory, and has studied dance performance methods for the past 15 years with teachers from around the world.
Neil Clifford
I am a sculptor, dancer and once upon a time, an actor. Currently, my art practice is the celebration and continuing dialogue I have with nature. Over the past thirty-five years I have travelled to remote areas of the planet, fascinated by artists who live in community with their natural surroundings and whose artwork is imbued with powerful connections to their ancestors and gods. I have been guided by their knowledge that art-making serves as a vehicle for understanding our place within a greater context. So, while determining form, line and aesthetic, I consider the work in the larger realm of its natural and increasingly fragile environment. Through my art I hope to affirm our ties to all wild places, and spur on further investigation into the current predicaments that all such places are faced with.
I am a sculptor, dancer and once upon a time, an actor. Currently, my art practice is the celebration and continuing dialogue I have with nature. Over the past thirty-five years I have travelled to remote areas of the planet, fascinated by artists who live in community with their natural surroundings and whose artwork is imbued with powerful connections to their ancestors and gods. I have been guided by their knowledge that art-making serves as a vehicle for understanding our place within a greater context. So, while determining form, line and aesthetic, I consider the work in the larger realm of its natural and increasingly fragile environment. Through my art I hope to affirm our ties to all wild places, and spur on further investigation into the current predicaments that all such places are faced with.
Real Eguchi is a landscape architect/ artist who explores the concept of ‘Sustainable Beauty’ referencing the Japanese notions of mono no aware and wabi-sabi. At 57, Real was introduced to the ecstatic dance community in Toronto. It has helped deepen his sense of vulnerability, peace and joy. As part of his ‘movement therapy’ practice that focuses on solo, contact, partner and ensemble improv dance, Real has begun to incorporate Butoh and eco-centric dance.
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Tess Takahashi is an independent scholar who writes on contemporary performance, experimental film, and moving image art. She participates in an on-going ensemble improvisation group, and is a member of the film programming collective, Pleasure Dome, and of the editorial collective of the journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies.