FUN
December 1 - 3 & 8 - 10, 2005
causerie intime (premiere December 1, 2005)
Choreography: Darryl C. Tracy
Music: autechre
Rehearsal Direction: Erika-Leigh Stirton, Heidi Strauss
Music Consultation: Jeremy Mimnagh
Dancers: Amanda Acorn, Mor Bar-Zakai, Jelani Douglas, Paula Duffy, Megan Fitzgerald, Christina Giannelia, Jasmine Graham, Savannah Hoag, Daniel Howe, Timna Kohl, Shannon Leibgott, Ruth Levin, Christina Lilley, Whitney Mah, Chelsie Montgomery, Emily Poirier, Krista Posyniak, Laurence Ramsay, Janine Sicotte, Kali Stahl, Debra Su, Natalie Su, Andrew Taylor, Rose-Marie Thériault, Tabitha Vallierie
Many thanks to the dancers for their bravery and commitment. - D.T.
Study: 022 (premiere December 1, 2005)
Choreography: D.A. Hoskins
Music: foutet
Dancers: Tera Dionne, Jasmine Ellis, Rénald Jean-Pierre, Sung hee Jhun, Sze-Yang Lam, Jennifer Lécuyer, Lilia Leon-Tovar, Hyun-soo Seo, Larissa Taurins, Shauna Taylor, Kamen Wang (December 1, 3, 9); Jaasiel Bean, Byron Beckford, Corey Crawford, Catherine George, Masuyo Higashide, Emily Law, Geneviève Ménard, Romina Soria, Kate Stashko, Brodie Stevenson, Kristina Udegbunam (December 2, 8, 10)
Loomings (premiere December 1, 2005)
Choreography: members of the Maritime Offenders Program & Erika-Leigh Stirton
Music: “Solo Pan Pipes on an Alpine Meadow,” Zamfir
Behavioural Supervisor: Patricia Miner
Performers: Stéphanie Bernard, Heather Berry, Michael Caldwell, Nicole Dupuis, Whitney Hewitt, Hyeon Ok Kang, Lynndsey Larre, Mariana Medellin-Canales, Arden Metford, Emma-Kate Millar, Megan Moore, Jade Sakamoto, Erika-Leigh Stirton, Catherine Valle, Jessica Wilson, Brendan Wyatt
This is a special program aimed at rehabilitating instigators of maritime piracy. It is an initiative of the United Dock Workers Union and The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
“We have tried to portray the feelings of the sailors just before the battle of the Nile and shortly afterwards, when they were doing their laundry. I think we succeeded.” - Erika
A special thanks to choreographer Bill Coleman.
Boys Will Be Men (1985)
Choreography, Text and Direction: Conrad Alexandrowicz
Music: Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Alfred Deller
Rehearsal Direction: Patricia Fraser
Lighting Design: Geoff Bouckley after Peter McKinnon
Original Costume Design: Conrad Alexandrowicz
Dancers: Michael Caldwell, Brendan Wyatt
Boys Will Be Men is a serious cartoon about the ways that masculinity, with its power relationships, its potential for violence, and its competitiveness, obstructs the attempts men make to communicate. It locates this violence within the context of a pas de deux, so as to emphasize its absurdity, and invokes male bravado by means of the objects and activities associated with the card table and the duel. These elements are either accompanied by heavy rock music or performed in silence, at which times dialogue in various languages is employed. They are contrasted with softer passages that portray the connectedness of the two figures and express their feelings of longing and regret.
With thanks for their valuable contribution to the rehearsal process: Byron Beckford, Corey Crawford, Rénald Jean-Pierre, Sze-Yang Lam, Brodie Stevenson, and Kamen Wang. Thank you to George Evans. - C.A.
dancing dancing the sound but no title ok let’s go (premiere December 1, 2005)
Choreography: Peter Chin
Music: The Bata Repertoire for Egungun in Pobè, Yoruba Drums from Benin, West Africa
Rehearsal Direction: Andrea Roberts
Dancers: Jaasiel Bean, Byron Beckford, Corey Crawford, Tera Dionne, Jasmine Ellis, Catherine George, Masuyo Higashide, Rénald Jean-Pierre, Sung hee Jhun, Sze-Yang Lam, Emily Law, Jennifer Lécuyer, Lilia Leon-Tovar, Geneviève Ménard, Hyun-soo Seo, Romina Soria, Kate Stashko, Brodie Stevenson, Larissa Taurins, Shauna Taylor, Kristina Udegbunam, Kamen Wang
Fun (1994)
Choreography: Murray Darroch
Music: “Grande Tarantelle for Piano & Orchestra,” Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Reconstruction/Muse: Heidi Strauss
Rehearsal Assistance: Erika-Leigh Stirton
Original Lighting Design: Roelof Peter Snippe
Costume Design: Lori Endes after Murray Darroch
Dancers: Stéphanie Bernard, Heather Berry, Nicole Dupuis, Whitney Hewitt, Hyeon Ok Kang, Lynndsey Larre, Mariana Medellin-Canales, Arden Metford, Emma-Kate Millar, Megan Moore, Jade Sakamoto, Catherine Valle, Jessica Wilson
Scrim Walker: Erika-Leigh Stirton
Fun was choreographed, with the support of the Toronto Arts Council, for The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s graduating class of 1994. It was remounted for Murray’s 40th birthday celebration in 1995, and soon after for Susan Macpherson’s 50th. It was then mounted on the School’s class of 1997.
Thank you to Paul DeAdder, Patricia Fraser, and Andrea Roberts. - H.S.
This program was dedicated to Murray Darroch (1954-2005).