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The 10/10/10 Project is a large-scale interdisciplinary piece that explores the idea of moving forward when the people we love don’t need us anymore. Inspired by postmodern chance procedures, 10/10/10 is a gathering point that combines the work of 43 emerging artists of 3 different mediums. Who knows what will be created?
In April 2014, 10 emerging writers from across Canada wrote 10 pieces using the prompt "There's something here that shouldn't be" These pieces were then given to 10 emerging composers who composed 10 unique musical tracks based on the essence of the writing they were given. Each piece of music was then matched with one of 10 emerging choreographers, who created a movement piece inspired by the music they received. The writers then returned to view these dance creations and each wrote a final piece inspired by the essence of the individual dance they had been assigned. During this process, none of the artists were allowed to talk to each other about the work they had exchanged, creating an ego-less and random creation environment.
Now, the 10 final pieces of writing, 10 pieces of choreography, and 10 pieces of music have all been combined to form one piece of interdisciplinary dance-theatre, facilitated by a director who is unable to speak with any of the creators as well, forced to find the through line based solely the presentation of work itself.
10/10/10 is inspired by the idea of imagined community: that even if we do not speak the same language or live in the same space, we can still find hopes, dreams, despairs and inspirations from the work of another who we may never meet. We can communicate without ego, crossing borders through our art.
Our award winning collection of artists (all between the ages of 18 and 33) have danced in Shawn Desmond videos and scored films at Cannes. They have worked with the Blyth festival, Theatre Aquarius, Buddies in Bad Times, their award winning work being produced in the Hamilton and Toronto Fringe Festivals, and the Summerworks Performance Festival. We even have an award winning Maclean’s writer on board all the way from Vancouver!
With 43 artists from across the country, 10/10/10 is the largest show at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. Come enter our lab and find out what those rowdy kids from Gen Y-made!
Bismuth Theatre in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents…
“The 10/10/10 Project”
Written by Devon Bain, Alyssa Bartlett, Camila Diaz-Varela, James Kenny, Jordan Laffrenier, Andrew Markowiak, Thomas McDevitt, Susan Mohammad, Luke Reece and Curtis te Brinke
Original Music Composed by Keevin Andrew, James Atin-Godden, Jake Butineau, Spencer Creaghan, Daniel Diaz, Cameron Frasier, Travis Grubissi, Niall Lynn-Mckee, Joshua Rowe and Daniel Schlombs
Choreographed by Cassandra Bowerman, Cameron Buttrum, Francesca Chudnoff, Anthony Di Feo and Maite Jacobson, Sarah Dowhun, Jasmine Dickson, Sadie Epstein-Fine, Chelsea Haraburda, Alyssa Martin and Molly Thomas
Performers: Samantha Brown, Sophie Dow, Joel Edmiston, Arrielle Edwards, Celia Green, Julia Hussey, Jordan Laffrenier, Francois Macdonald and Callie Presniak
Director: Aaron Jan
Dramaturg: Lucy Powis
Stage Manager: Andra Legault
Sound Designer: Jason Thomson
Lighting Designer: Samuel Chang
Logo Design: Phil Turkiewicz
Performances:
July 3rd – 7:00 PM
July 4th – 12:00 PM
July 6th – 6:45 PM
July 8th – 3:30 PM
July 9th – 3:30 PM
July 11th – 2:15 PM
July 12th – 1:45 PM
Onstage: July 3rd-12th
Venue: Factory Theatre Mainspace (125 Bathurst Street )
Please note that there is absolutely no latecomer seating.
Tickets go on sale June 11th
Purchase by phone: 416-966-1065 / Online: www.fringetoronto.com
In person: During the Festival, the Box office is located in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s (581 Bloor St West)
Photo: The 10/10/10 Project workshop. ©2015 Jordan Laffrenier.
2015-06-07
The 10/10/10 Project