Winter Into Spring  

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40 minutes, site specific dance performance onHanlan's Island, Toronto Islands

Dance and costume design: Aimée Dawn Robinson

Hair Assistant: Chris Boni

Process/Outside Eyes: Jennifer Castle, Victoria Cheong, Allison Peacock.

Head Usher and FOH: Anna Silverstein

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*click photos for a closer look

* All tree photos ADR, peformance photos as noted.

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This piece and the memory of it's creation are dear to my heart. Here's the text from my original invitation to this performance:

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"WINTER INTO SPRING

DANCE PERFORMANCE

BY ADR

 

SUNDAY MARCH 25, 2012,

3:30PM, HANLAN'S, TORONTO ISLANDS

detailed directions* and van pick-up information below. (* directions omitted in this version.)

 

ONE TORONTO ISLAND DATE ONLY

This is part one of a two-part dance. There will be a second performance in this process hosted in the city in the early Summer of 2012. (*the second part was Barrington Levy Seven Times.)

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The two performances combine through

time, memory, our bodies, other documents and the changing seasons, to make a whole. 

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Ten dollars for outdoor performance followed by indoor tea, hot chocolate, conversation and sweets. Wine and beer by donation.

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Performance Statement:

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I've been working and living at the Gibraltar Point Arts Centre this winter, mainly making dances and videos in the woods.

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I wanted to experience the weather through my dancing body and to document and inform this dancing process, by and with, various means -- video, photographs, writing, textiles, conversations, dreams, poems.

 

Photographs taken became visual, geometric reference points for dance phrases. Writing became dance, 

poems became objects, textiles informed movement, songs became company. 

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I originally gave this project the working title Winter Into Spring as a simple marker of the duration of my stay here

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