About this Event
April 21, 2024 / The Betty Oliphant Theatre / 8pm / Doors open at 7:30pm
Empty Space | Empty Time
Choreographer Yvonne Coutts
Dancers Amanda Bon, Jacqueline Ethier, Alya Graham, Sarah Hopkin
Ligthing Design Gabriel Cropley
“Empty Space | Empty Time is an abstract exploration of presence and absence. Poetically spatial and physically expansive, the dance finds its bearings through the exquisite emotional cycles of the music. Separate and together, one in a unified field." - Yvonne Coutts
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Worlds Within
Composer and cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne
“I think of it sometimes as the soundtrack to a life cycle, beginning from an unending ether (Unending I), emerging into innocence and wonder (From Within), growing into self-awareness (From Above) followed by chaos and upheaval (Tumult), making peace with what is (Fade [Afterglow]), and returning to the infinite (Unending II). I wanted the bookends to feel timeless and to reflect the passing of time from the perspective of nature. By contrast, I wanted the inner sections to have a fast-paced momentum, embodying human subjectivity and impatience”. - Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Solo cello works performed by Raphael Weinroth-Browne
since then
Concept, Choreographic Composition, Direction Peggy Baker
Movement Invention. Peggy Baker with Jacqueline Ethier and Sarah Hopkin
Lighting Design. Gabriel Cropley
Original Score. Debashis Sinha
... the tape-recorder should have caught some ghost of us: that tape-recorder not merely played but should have listened to us, and could instruct those after us: this we were, this is how we tried to love, and these are the forces they had ranged against us, and these are the forces we had ranged within us within us and against us, against and within us.
- Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
Empty Space | Empty Time photo by Cutis Perry
since then photo by Bill Juillette
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Canada
CAD 30.00