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Michelle Silagy presents the World Premiere of
June 21-23, 8pm
Winchester Street Theatre
80 Winchester Street
(click here for map)
Tickets: $20 ($15 for students, seniors and CADA)
Reservation Line: Dance Umbrella of Ontario 416-504-6429 ext. 26
Independent choreographer Michelle Silagy is proud to present the world premiere of her new full-length choreography,
Independent choreographer Michelle Silagy is proud to present the world premiere of her new full-length choreography, Necessary Velocity, a striking, personal exploration of the human body and the natural world that runs June 21-23 at the Winchester Street Theatre, featuring gifted interpreters Megan Andrews, Andrea Nann and William Yong (who were collaborators with Silagy in the year-and-a-half long creation process).
Silagy intriguingly explores the terrain of the body and its connection to the natural world as she delves into a space-time continuum that travels the arena of how we influence each other, inform each other and need each other to survive.
Profoundly influenced by the natural world, Silagy explains that Necessary Velocity “mines forces beneath the surface to reveal the underpinnings of the body and who we are and can be for each other. I seek to create a time and space to explore the weight of one's experience, in living and in love, to convey some of what we carry, and all of who we become, in the presence of each other where time is reflected in the measure of a breath, or the pulse of a heart.”
Dance artist, teacher and writer/editor Megan Andrews has danced for many independent choreographers in Toronto and Vancouver. She is publisher and founding editor of The Dance Current magazine and a contract faculty member in the dance department at York University. She is also a Laban Movement Analyst and is currently working on doctoral studies in Communication and Culture through York and Ryerson Universities. Andrea Nann is a dance choreographer, performer and artistic director of the Dreamwalker Dance Company. She has collaborated with an array of artists including Michael Ondaatje, Gordon Downie and Veronica Tennant, and has created and performed over forty-five original roles for a long list of prominent Canadian choreographers. Nann was a member of The Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1988-2003, and has performed as a guest artist with many illustrious companies including Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Co. ERASGA, and Dancetheatre David Earle, among others. William Yong studied dance in his native Hong Kong and in London, England. Previous English companies he worked with included Random Dance Company and Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures touring Europe, Los Angeles and New York’s Broadway. In Canada, he was a member of Toronto Dance Theatre for five seasons, and he has worked with CORPUS, Chimera Project, Matjash Mrozewski, Michelle Silagy, Kathleen Rea and many others. Currently William is the artistic director and choreographer of ‘Zata Omm Dance Projects’.
Necessary Velocity brings together an intimate ensemble of collaborators from other mediums as well for this deep exploration of the human form in all its stages of development. The original score, by composer Brian Barlow, will be performed live on stage by saxophonist Verne Dorge, cellist Amy Laing and Brian Barlow as percussionist.. Set designer Kai Chan, lighting designer Roelof Peter Snippe and costume designer Annie Thompson join forces to create a visual world of reflective surfaces and light through which the performance unfolds.
Michelle Silagy is Toronto-based independent dancer, choreographer, and teacher noted for her intimate and well-crafted dances made in the presence of dynamically charged interpreters. Her work, spanning 17 years, has been shown at venues such as The EnWave Theatre, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Textile, Dusk Dances and The Distillery District and at Series 8:08, which she co-founded. She works extensively with youth across the country and recently, in England; forging new territory that reveals art- and dance-making as joyfully essential. Her choreography is a unique blend of movement vocabularies, with an overarching goal to portray the beauty of the human form - leaving audiences feeling refreshed and inspired. Silagy is the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Dance Award for choreography from the Toronto Community Foundation.
“In these troubled times choreographer Michelle Silagy is a balm for the soul…. An exquisite paean to humankind’s fragility in a cruel world.” – The Globe and Mail on her 2003 work Watermark
"Silagy cradles and nurtures her creations until they are polished gems… and invariably succeeds with intimate and carefully crafted pieces.” –Toronto Life
Michelle Silagy presents the World Premiere of her new full-length choreography
Necessary Velocity
June 21 to 23, 8pm nightly
At the Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street
Tickets: $20 ($15 for students, seniors and CADA)
Reservation Line: Dance Umbrella of Ontario 416-504-6429 ext. 26
Event Partners: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council
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