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Beside Each Other
11th Fret
The Grand Bounce
If You Could Read My Mind: Gordon Lightfoot & Gord Downie
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| Photo by John Lauener. Dancers Brendan Wyatt and Andrea Nann |
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| Beside Each Other |
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I have known Andrea Nann a long time. We have worked together on a number of things over the years.
Andrea has always challenged me to look deeper. She has taught me so much about movement and expression
Andrea brings me to edge of touching what is, at once, our newest and oldest art form, dance.
I am grateful to know her.
I have the greatest amount of respect and admiration for dancers in today's world; for their grace, their beauty, their strength and vulnerabilty.
Dancers do a balancing act on flat ground, holding a mirror to man's reality while at the same time hinting at his ideal, and by doing so, remind us how unsure, how precarious, how high, flat ground can be.
Here's what dancer/choreographer Crystal Pite once said;
“Dance disappears almost at the moment of its manifestation.
It is an extreme expression of the present, a perfect metaphor
for life. Dancers sculpt space in real time, working inside a
form that is constantly in a state of vanishing. We have no
artifacts. I find it strangely beautiful to be creating something
that is made of us – made of our breath and blood and bones
and minds. Something that is made of the space we occupy
and made of the space between us. We embody both the dance
and its disappearance.”
I have watched 'Beside Each Other' come together, I have seen Andrea and Brendan as they've worked through it and
it is...amazing.
I am humbled.
I can't imagine a bigger honour than being a part of 'Beside Each Other',
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Young Centre for the Performing Arts presents
Dreamwalker Dance Company in
Beside Each Other
World Premiere!
"A work of delicate humour, profound insight and extraordinary physical skill." - Shirley Goldberg
Michael Young Theatre
Toronto, Ontario
December 2 - 9
Tickets: $29, CADA/students $20
www.youngcentre.ca or call 416-866-8666
A 60 minute dance work inspired by and performed to music from Coke Machine Glow and Battle of the Nudes.
Featuring Andrea Nann and Brendan Wyatt with original music and poetry by Gord Downie, visuals by Elysha Poirier, lighting and production design by David Duclos. Facillitated by dramaturge Guy Cools.
Downie released his debut book of poetry, and an accompanying solo album “Coke Machine Glow”, in 2001. Beside Each Other is a contemporary dance performance that captures the intimacy of this work with a series of short duets (performed by Nann and Wyatt), Beside Each Other explores the private landscape between two lovers as they tread through deep intimacy, heartache, restlessness, separation and transcendence into a harmonious love. Beautifully articulate and complex, paired on the same landscape, one near the other, their balance creates wholeness.
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