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 is a study of, and a journey through, the aesthetics of the nude female body as it shifts through various expressions of femininity. It questions whether perceptions of the female form can be separated from social constructs of beauty, and where freedom and empowerment can be found while being looked at.
Choreographer & Performer: Ashley Mae Johnston
Choreographer & Performer: Ashley Mae Johnston
Music: 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 | Egyptian Fantasy (Remix 2021) - Live by Norbert Susemihl
Lighting Design: Calum Maunier
Dramaturg: Barbara England
Outside Eye Support: Kelsie Vanstone, Bitch Sassidy, Cindy Ansah
Poster Photo Credit: 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