Dances for the Meanwhile : Friday, March 13th - 8pm

Tom Brouillette presents
Dances for the Meanwhile
March 12th, 13th & 14th at 8pm
March 15th at 2:30pm

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Friday, March 13th
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Senior dance artist Tom Brouillette presents Dances for the Meanwhile, an evening of dance-theatre with guest choreographers Claudia Moore and Kathleen Rea. Through evocative stories and characters, this series of rural-themed dances draws upon textured memories, and journeys through campfire tales from the Muskokas.

The evening’s earthy, Canadian flavour is ripe with nostalgia and impressions of northern country life. Dance artists Tom Brouillette, Karen Kaeja, Jennifer lynn Dick, Diana Groenendijk and Lee Walder theatrically enliven the mundane and the whimsical, with live music composed by Rick Hyslop.

Dances for the Meanwhile is the first stage of choreographer Tom Brouillette’s long-term project, Split Rail, which explores the changing landscapes around a split-cedar rail fence, and plays around the sentiment of Antoine Gérin-Lajoie’s song un Canadien errant ("a wandering Canadian"). The fence – good for sitting on – also suggests borders and crossing those borders, as well as the relationships and tensions between neighbours. In other words, it is a celebration of eternal Canadian pre-occupations, which the dancers evoke with both passion and humour.

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