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Guild Park and Gardens

In this new film, Alias Dance Project wanted to capture how connected the Toronto company is. Shot by Janelle Carpenter and featuring dancers Caitlin Amodeo, Francesca Chudnoff, Lauren Cook, Amanda Davis, Nigel Edwards and Catherine Turcotte, it asks, “What’s next? What’s around the corner?”

“The beautiful thing about Alias Dance Project is that each one of us is always hungry to create and take risks with our art,” said Chudnoff. “Whether it’s in the studio training and exchanging energy with one another or taking a field trip to an epic location and shooting a film guerrilla-style, we want to keep the fire burning.”

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Posted November 27, 2015

Caribana is Our Stage

Themes of becoming, shaping from and returning to are central to Caribbean performance arts. As one of these art forms, Carnival is a nuanced performance art practice rooted in the cultural memory of the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout Canada and the diaspora. But whose story is told (or not told) and in what context? The telling or omission of stories can be traced to a lack of understanding of the complexity of the Caribbean and its Carnival – a performance tradition that is more than the mass commodification, sexuality and “loud music” we often associate it with.

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f.stop / let the light in by Alias Dance Project

A body lies curled on her side in the corner of an all-white room and begins violently twitching–a scene from f.stop / let the light in by Alias Dance Project for an upcoming show featuring original and remounted work.

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