A rotating triple-bill of cutting-edge works with 3 renowned international, Canadian, and local artists on the forefront of dance. The final presentation of the Dancemakers 2014-15 Season.

ABOUT CAPITALISM, SEX, AND MAGIC

Shamanism, false economies, and modern spiritual power. Dancemakers presents a queering, kaleidoscopic triple bill of works by internationally renowned and award-winning KEITH HENNESSY Bear/Skin, ground-breaker ANDREW TAY Summoning Aesthetics and local pioneer EROCA NICOLS aka Lady Janitor ...Truthteller.... Presented over 4 days, the works will be performed in different combinations that re-contextualize their themes. Every night will be a unique experience.

ABOUT BEAR/SKIN BY KEITH HENNESSY

Motivated by grand spectacle and ambitious prayer, Keith Hennessys Bear/Skin appropriates Nijinsky's choreography for Le Sacre du Printemps 1913 to consider Modernism's dependence on appropriations of the indigenous, folk, exotic, and oriental, and question ritual and art today. Bear/Skin was named TimeOut New York's 2014 Critics' Pick and "a must see" performance by San Francisco Bay Guardian.

ABOUT SUMMONING AESTHETICS BY ANDREW TAY

What are the actions / images / rituals that call forth the idea of summoning? And if we are to execute these without pretense...What are we summoning into the space around us? What types of spirits / magic / nothingness / can we make happen without knowing what the @#$ we are doing? The performance will be an impossible attempt to render intense rituals and spiritual actions into the superficial and transform pop culture and trivial actions into a sacred practice.

ABOUT ...TRUTHTELLER... BY EROCA NICOLS

...Truthteller... is a solo work by Lady Janitor featuring: feats of fear facing and concentration, questions and answers, calling on and calling out the past, present and future, blood, water, conversation, aqua-technics, results of a sojourn of spiritual seekery, live lifelong lasting body alteration, sweating, movement and yes, truthtelling.

DATES & TIMES

Wed, MAY 6 8 pm

...Truthteller... by Eroca Nicols aka Lady Janitor &

Summoning Aesthetics by Andrew Tay

Thu, MAY 7 8 pm

Summoning Aesthetics by Andrew Tay &

Bear/Skin by Keith Hennessy

Fri, MAY 8 8 pm

Bear/Skin by Keith Hennessy &

...Truthteller... by Eroca Nicols aka Lady Janitor

Sat, MAY 9 3 pm

...Truthteller... by Eroca Nicols aka Lady Janitor &

Summoning Aesthetics by Andrew Tay

Sat, MAY 9 8 pm

Bear/Skin by Keith Hennessy

VENUE

Dancemakers Centre for Creation

Distillery District, 9 Trinity Street, Main Stage 313

Toronto, ON M5A 3C4

416-367-1800 dancemakers.org/directions

TICKETS

$26 / $21 Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/1EUsl0p

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ABOUT DANCEMAKERS

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