For advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/706413

WOLF SOUNDS is a collectively-created dance show directed by Brooke Banning in which five actors with special needs present, with reckless transparency, a story about conformity, isolation, and desire.

LOCATION: The Box Toronto 89 Niagara Street - Niagara & Bathurst, just south of Factory Theatre.

DATES: Friday, July 18th - 8pm

Saturday, July 19th - 8pm

Sunday, July 20th - 2:30pm

Friday July 25th - 8pm

Saturday, July 26th - 8pm

Sunday, July 27th - 2:30pm

TICKETS: Friday & Saturday: general $25.00 student $20.00

Sunday: general $20.00 student $15.00

All proceeds go directly to the artists involved with the project.

ONLINE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/706413

PHONE: 1-800-838-3006

WOLF SOUNDS was devised by combining movement with found, improvised, and written text to create a surreal physical theatre experience.

It is a coming of age story about one man's search for love as he struggles to communicate, earn an injured soul's trust, and understand physical boundaries.

Wolf Sounds was featured at the Accessing the Arts symposium in Whitby, hosted by the Abilities Centre and selfconscious theatre. Wolf Sounds will also be workshopped at Cahoots Theatres Lift Off! Festival 2014.

Director:

BROOKE BANNING

Featuring:

LINDSEY CHALMERS

NICOLE FLYNN

DYLAN HARMAN

AMELIA MCAFEE-BRUNNER

VICTOR PEREIRA

Stage manager: ERIN ROY

Costume design: MADELINE MALCZEWSKA

Lighting design: MONICA SASS

Sound consultant: SASHA MASLOW

Assistant stage managers: MIRA SIVANATHAN, ANGELA CHA, EMILY KEDAR

Makeup artists: FILOMENA PAOLETTA, NATALIJA FILINOVA

Promotional photography: BISERKA LIVAJA

ABOUT US:

BROOKE BANNING is a Toronto-based theatremaker whose works include: Swell Broad, Opposable Thumb, Joyful Noise, So It Goes Luminato, We Are The Few Paprika Festival, and collectively created The Cinderella Project TPL's Culture Days. She is currently developing a new play, entitled Genitalia, about the slippery, inconstant nature of sexual identification.

NICOLE FLYNN is an internationally award-winning synchronized swimmer who was awarded the gold metal at the World Down Syndrome Championships in Italy, 2012. She is also a photographer and motivational speaker.

DYLAN HARMAN is a Toronto-based actor who is known for his performances in feature film The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Judith Thompson's RARE, and Kire Paputts's short film Rainbow Connection.

VICTOR PEREIRA is a Toronto-based actor whose performances in short films Play.Stop.Rewind and Penpals have been screened internationally on the festival circuit.

LINDSEY CHALMERS comes from a dance background with training in hip hop, musical theatre, ballroom, and breakdancing. She is also a celebrated visual artist whose work has been shown at ArtCures and other awareness-related events across the city.

AMELIA MCAFEE-BRUNNER brings her musical talent on piano, guitar, banjo, and harmonica to the group. She is also a skilled Taekwondo practitioner

Director's notes:

WOLF SOUNDS began as a project whose aim was to give five performers a new way to speak. I dont mean that I wanted to give voice to people with disabilities. I was not interested in getting up on a soapbox or helping them up onto a soapbox to give voice to a cause. I was interested in creating a new language, a physical language, a language in dance or, not even dance just bodies moving in space and relating: looking at each other and responding spontaneously; speaking with silence more than with words; grasping for words and failing.

WOLF SOUNDS is a kind of Alice in Wonderland-esque coming-of-age story. The show begins as an ensemble piece but comes to focus on two stories:

Victor Pereira plays a young man who is searching for love but doesnt understand how to connect without going too far. He has trouble respecting physical boundaries; makes you laugh til it hurts but then goes too far; and asks all the right, but wrong, questions.

Amelias journey offers a contrast to Victors story. At this moment in her life, she is not aware of any physical or romantic need. She is a sweet, open heart that wants to connect: meet new people and laugh with them. But she is quickly disoriented by the pressures of womanhood and taught to connect in the way so many girls are taught to connect: by drawing womens envy and mens admiration.

My greatest hope is that, regardless of the reason people come to see the show, they leave talking about it as a piece of theatre, not as some kind of social experiment. Our goal is to entertain and enchant; if something is learned from the story we're telling then that's wonderful also, but it's not our focus.