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Presented by TO Live, Fall For Dance North, and Le Patin Libre, this unique event features ice-mavericks combining the athletic virtuosity of competitive figure skaters, the choreographic intelligence of contemporary dancers, and the physical instinct for flocking. They’ll join three of Le Patin Libre’s founding artists and choreographers for a total of 15 performers on ice, who will together use the flocking metaphor to ask big questions: why do we gather? Why do we split? Why do we polarize? Why is our collective behaviour sometimes so baffling?Murmuration. This is how ornithologists call the mesmerizing aerial ballets of swarms of birds. The grounded flight of glide, the fluid speed of our iceskates, and the sheer immensity of a frozen stage allows us to bring this phenomenon to the performing arts for the very first time.
This show explores how humans get together: as instinctive creatures, as variables of algorithms (that’s what flocks are…), as cogs in machines, and, sometimes, as achieved individuals.
Murmuration is a co-production of the CanDanse Creation Fund, Danse Danse, National Arts Centre, Dance House, Fall for Dance North and TO Live, La Rotonde, and Théâtre de la Ville de Paris. With support from the National Creation Fund of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Dance North Scotland, Patinoire Le Dôme (Laon, France), Patinoire Le Blizz (Rennes, France), and Ville de Baie-Saint-Paul.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Leaside Memorial Gardens, Millwood Dental Centre, 958 Millwood Rd, Toronto, ON M4G 4H3, Canada,Toronto, Ontario
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