Fringe News
Fringe News
First, acclaimed solo dancer and 20-year Toronto-based dancer Lucy Rupert reworks her 2011 DanceWorks MainStage commission The animals are planning an intervention as a more raw and pared-down performance, stripping away the original design elements to get at the more ferocious and exposed essence at work. Originally made just after Lucy’s son was born, The animals ... is not about motherhood, but about the fierce animal instinct that resides in all humans, and a constant wrestling with the knowledge of our own mortality. The work was jointly conceived by choreographer/dancer Lucy Rupert and composer/songstress Sarah Slean, and features an original string quartet.
“Rupert’s appearances on stage are like an orchid among forget-me-nots…It is hard to take your eyes off her.” - Toronto Star
Next, dance-theatre company Polynomials mixes things up with a lighter and altogether more prosaic instance of facing our own mortality with A Pocket Full of Matches. This quartet, featuring a live score by Math Rosen, looks at our internal disasters, and how the story that's visible from the outside isn't always the story that's unfolding on the inside. With choreographer Karissa Fyrrar's characteristic wit, A Pocket ... sees the performers try to make it through the day as they experience both intentional and consequential neglect of real feelings for the purpose of surviving the normal-ness and banality of the everyday. For these women, the challenge is in smothering rather than stoking. Nothing to see here, folks ...
Polynomials (www.polynomialsdance.com) and Blue Ceiling dance (www.blueceilingdance.com) present
A Toronto Fringe Festival event
little fires
a pair of dance works exploring instinct, mortality, and the constant presence of tiny disasters.
featuring
The animals are planning an intervention, choreographed and performed by Lucy Rupert, and
A Pocket Full of Matches, choreographed by Karissa Fyrrar and performed by Jen Hum*, Marlowe Porter, Sarah Reid and Lauren Runions
Factory Theatre Mainstage
125 Bathurst Street
Tickets $12 : www.fringetoronto.com
July 1 – 9:15 pm *Robyn Breen will be replacing Jen Hum for this performance
July 3 – 8:15 pm
July 4 – 5:30 pm
July 6 – 9:15 pm
July 7 – 1:45 pm
July 8 – 11:30 pm
July 9 – 2:15 pm
contact: polynomialsdance@gmail.com / blueceiling@sympatico.ca
2016-06-16
Fringe: little fires