since then | Peggy Baker (Toronto)
feat. Jacqueline Ethier & Sarah Hopkin
"since then arose out of the retrospect of age. I have insights now that I wish I could share with my younger self. There are conversations about love, sexuality, loss, and old age that I would dearly love to have had with my late mother. There are truths about my life that I have never confided and need to find the courage to share and discuss. I offer this dance as an invitation for conversations among women." - Peggy Baker
Credits:
- Concept, Choreographic Composition, Direction: Peggy Baker
- Movement Invention: Peggy Baker with the dancers
- Dancers: Jacqueline Ethier and Sarah Hopkin
- Original Score: Debashis Sinha
- Costumes: Peggy Baker
- Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
so close | Ashley Mae Johnston (Calgary)
Content Warning: features full nudity
‘so close’ is a solo performance rooted in spectatorship. The work considers traditional roles assigned to women in society, and uses the nude body to question how to reappropriate and reclaim power within them.
Choreographer & Performer: Ashley Mae Johnston
Music: Listen (Instrumental) by Alan Watts & Boreta | Ouvna by Ori Lichtik, Violin Sonata No.26 in B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No.4, K. 378: I, Allegro Moderato by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Oleg Kagan, Sviatoslav Richter | Lunar Rhapsody by Les Baxter | I Loved Him/Oliver Quick by Anthony Willis, London Contemporary Orchestra
Sound editing: Alyssa Maturino
Lighting Design: Calum Maunier
Dramaturg: Barbara England
Photographer: Dragos Paunescu
There are truths about my life that I have never confided and need to find the courage to share and discuss. I offer this dance as an invitation for conversations among women. - Peggy Baker