NDH International Dance Day Special
featuring: Johanna Bundon, Yvonne Chartrand, Tanya Dahms, Ashley Johnson, Roxanne Korpan, Dallas Montpetit, Jeanne Pelletier, Robin Poitras, Tessa Rae, Alex McNabb-Sinclair, Krista Solheim, Tara Solheim, Dr. Renatta Varma, and Jeannine Whitehouse. Time/Date: Friday, April 29 at 1:30PM Duration: 100 minutes Location: Shu-Box, University of Regina (3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina) Price: $30 for adults; $20 for children and seniors NOTE: Masks are required at all NDH events |
Conversations with a Faltering Heart
A congenital heart defect is my inheritance. Through my father I inherit my heart and with it a fallible valve. Through speaking and dancing I examine the timeline of my own heart. Musical score created by Jeff Morton using augmented steel guitar, piano and sound recording of my heart beat during an echocardiogram. In collaboration with Karlie King this work is part of The Moving Heart an interactive exhibition of sculptural hearts that asks us to slowly bring the internal external. Special thanks to Traci Foster and Deanna Peters as outside/inside eyes, Tom Perron for anatomy expertise, my ever patient cardiologist Dr. Colin Yeung, the Canada Council for the Arts, and SK Arts for funding this project. Duration: 14 minutes |
Photo by Kana Nemoto
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Ashley Johnson is a dance artist and Registered Somatic Movement Educator trained in group facilitation and hands on bodywork as a teacher of the Mitzvah Technique/Itcush Method and Continuum Movement. Upon completing a diploma in Dance from Grant MacEwan College and a BA in Dance from University of Calgary Ashley spent ten years apprenticing with movement pioneers from around North America. She trained extensively with her two primary mentors Amelia Itcush and Emilie Conrad until their passing in 2011 and 2014. As a dance artist and educator, Ashley creates interdisciplinary site specific creations that blend embodiment practice with creative process. She is currently based out of Regina, SK where she teaches and performs independently and with New Dance Horizons.
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Yvonne Chartrand is a contemporary choreographer and dancer as well as a national award-winning master Métis jigger. Her ancestors come from the Métis community of St. Laurent, Manitoba.
She began performing with a traditional Métis dance group called The Gabriel Dumont Dancers in Winnipeg in 1986. She started work in contemporary dance in the same year, while attending the University of Manitoba Fine Arts Program. She has since trained in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, New York, and Banff. She graduated from the Main Dance Place apprenticeship program in Vancouver in 1998, where she apprenticed with the Karen Jamieson Dance Company. She has worked with choreographers Paula Ross, Katherine Labelle, Ania Storoscszuk Georgina Martinez, Helen Walkley, Michelle Olson and Robin Poitras. She is a co-founder of Raven Spirit Dance Company. Yvonne attended the Aboriginal Dance Project at The Banff Centre in 2001, 2002, and 2010. She trained with Margo Kane’s Full Circle Ensemble, which produced The River Home for the Talking Stick Festival in 2005. Yvonne is the Artistic Director of V’ni Dansi (founded in 2000 with Mariko Kage), whose name translates as “Come and Dance” in Michif. Dancers perform traditional Métis dance under the name of the Louis Riel Métis Dancers and contemporary dance works as V'ni Dansi. The Louis Riel Métis Dancers have had the pleasure of performing for events locally and nationally and internationally such as the Vancouver International Children's Festival, Talking Stick Festival, Back to Batoche Days Festival, the International Métis Festival and The Debajehmujig Theatre. www.vnidansi.ca/company/yvonne-chartrand |
Krista Solheim is an independent dance artist and movement teacher based in Regina, SK. She received her early dance training at the Youth Ballet Company of Saskatchewan, then completed a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University in 1998.
Over the past 24 years, Krista has pursued an independent creative and performative dance practice. As choreographer, Krista has been active in developing her voice as a soloist. As performer, she has worked with a range of choreographers from across Canada. Since 2017, Krista has been working with New Dance Horizons Creation Base, NDH/ Rouge-gorge; dancing in the creations of Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras. Krista is a STOTT PILATES® certified instructor and certified Franklin Method Level One Educator. She is currently in training for and will complete Franklin Method Level Two in May 2022. Krista has dedicated her life to research of movement in the body through dance, creation, teaching and a range of somatic practices. |
Lonesome
This dance is excerpted from Untitled Peter Tripp Project and was created in collaboration with Lee Henderson & Jayden Pfeifer. Performer: Johanna Bundon Song recording: Elvis Presley Sound design: Lee Henderson Special Thanks to Krista Solheim for rehearsal direction Spring 2021 & Misty Wensel for holding space. Thank you Dana Rempel at Artesian, Michael Wanless for the research, and NDH Secret Garden Summer Stage for the garden, support, and deadline. Duration 8.30 min |
Photo Credit: Lee Henderson 2022
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Photo credit: Michael Bell
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Johanna Bundon is an independent artist whose practice includes dance, theatre, independent production, curation, and arts advocacy. She is currently an Artistic Associate with Curtain Razors (Regina).
Johanna is a graduate of LADMMI: Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montréal (2005), Globe Theatre’s Actor Conservatory (2008), University of Regina - BA in Arts & Culture (2013), San Diego 4 Feldenkrais Professional Training Program (2020). Her performance work has been presented by New Dance Horizons, Globe Theatre Sandbox Series, through Western Canada on the Prairie Dance Circuit, and as a part of the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene. Her most recent work is Untitled Peter Tripp Project (August 2021) created alongside Lee Henderson & Jayden Pfeifer, presented by Curtain Razors. |
JOHN
Choreography: Helen Walkley Performers: Josh Martin and Billy Marchenski Time/Date: Show#1: Wednesday, April 27th at 7:30PM Show#2: Thursday April 28th at 7:30PM Duration: 45 minutes Location: Shu-Box, University of Regina (3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina) Price: $30 for adults; $20 for children and seniors NOTE: Masks are required at all NDH events |
Credit: Don Hall
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Robin Poitras is one of Saskatchewan’s most prolific dance and performance creators. Creating dance, performance and installation works, she has been actively engaged in contemporary dance practice since the early 80s. For many years Robin has traversed the formal worlds of dance and performance art. She co-founded New Dance Horizons in 1986, where she continues to act as Artistic Director. With an interest in research into diverse fields of artistic and somatic practice she has developed a unique interdisciplinary approach. Robin’s works have been presented across Canada, in Spain, France, Germany, Mongolia and Mexico. She is a recipient of the 2016 Lieutenant Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2006 Mayor’s Awards for Business & The Arts’ Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2004 Women of Distinction Award for the Arts.
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Krista Solheim is an independent dance artist and movement teacher based in Regina, SK. She received her early dance training at the Youth Ballet Company of Saskatchewan, then completed a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University in 1998. In 2014, she became STOTT PILATES® certified instructor. Over the past 20 years, Krista has pursued an independent creative and performative dance practice. As choreographer, Krista has been active in developing her voice as a soloist. As performer, she has worked with a range of choreographers from across Canada. Since 2017, Krista has been working with New Dance Horizons (NDH) Creation Base, NDH/ Rouge-gorge; dancing in the creations of Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras.
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Valerie L. Hall
Nationally renown as an organist, harpsichordist, educator, mentor and church musician, Valerie Hall has given solo recitals across Canada, in the United States and Europe. A native of Winnipeg, she obtained a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from the University of Manitoba and a Master of Church Music from Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois. Valerie is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music and serves on both the Voice and Keyboard faculties of the Conservatory of Performing Arts, University of Regina. As a continuo player on organ and harpsichord, Valerie has performed under the batons of Bramwell Tovey, Ivars Taurins, Rosemary Thomson, Dale Barltrop, Victor Sawa and Gordon Gerrard. She regularly appears as guest harpsichordist with the Regina Symphony Chamber Players. A tireless advocate for Canadian music, Valerie has commissioned substantial repertoire for organ as well as voice. Her long association with Montreal-based soprano Kerry-Anne Kutz has seen the duo tour much of Canada with entertaining and diverse programs of Canadian music for voice and organ. Valerie was recently distinguished with an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO), a national organization for which she has variously served as National President, National Chair for Membership and Regional Director for the Prairies. Her playing has been featured at national RCCO conventions and she has served on juries for national organ playing competitions. Valerie is a member of the Regina Musicians’ Association (AFM) and the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association (SRMTA). |
SINFONIA
How to express and describe human suffering, human loss in the time of the pandemic. How can one dancer convey the global loss we are experiencing. How can we even comprehend the scale of this loss? Perhaps it is in the personal stories, the individual ones that we can understand the scope of this human tragedy. The music inspired by the death of Christ. The pain of its mother The pain of all humanity. My approach will be of course inspired by the music and its absolute beauty. It resonates in so many hearts, and resonates with me because of its Christian background, because of my Catholic upbringing. The starting point is the pain of the mother losing a child. It is a universal pain. The dance will aim to express in a simple setting, an empty room, the loss. The absence. The “coming to terms with” If music and dance are able to elevate the soul, to make us feel part of the bigger universe, I truly hope to be able to pay homage to this, and in doing so actively participate in our global healing. Review link: https://www.citadelcie.com/review-laurence-lemieuxs-sinfonia/ |
Credit: MIMNAGH
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Laurence Lemieux
As artistic director of Citadel + Compagnie for nearly two decades, Laurence Lemieux has established herself as a leader within Toronto’s dance community. Her multi-faceted experience as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and presenter has guided the company’s mandate of community outreach and engagement and given rise to C+C’s distinctive artistic voice. Born in Québec City, Lemieux studied dance at L’École Supérieure de Danse du Québec, and at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her performance career began when she joined Toronto Dance Theatre in 1986, dancing for founders David Earle, Peter Randazzo and Patricia Beatty, and later for Christopher House. A member of the company for 8 years, Lemieux’s 1998 performance in House’s Cryptoversa earned her the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Performance in Dance. Over the course of her career, Lemieux has danced for some of Canada’s most prominent choreographers, including William Douglas, Margie Gillis, James Kudelka, Benoît Lachambre, Sylvain Émard, and Jean-Pierre Perreault. Since presenting her first choreography in 1983, Lemieux has created over thirty original works, drawing deeply on personal experiences that resonate strongly with audiences and presenters alike. As an educator, Lemieux has taught at many respected institutions including Ryerson University, York University, Concordia University, the University of Quebec in Montreal, l’École Supérieure de Ballet Contemporain and Canada’s National Ballet School. Lemieux uses her cumulative artistic experience to inform her programming choices for the company’s multiple presentation series, showcasing the work of diverse talent from emerging, marginalized and established choreographers. In 2012, Lemieux created the Citadel Dance Program and brought high quality, accessible dance classes to children and youth living in Toronto’s Regent Park. She is a passionate advocate for the arts and is President of the board of Daniel Leveillé Danse in Montreal. Lemieux’s satisfaction as an artist comes from sharing her passion and talent with dance audiences and students, and as a deeply engaged and active member of the dance community. |
New Dance Horizons are thrilled to welcome you to the continuation of the Love+Loss Performance Series featuring
Date/Time April 14, Thursday at 7:30pm Location New Dance Horizons, 2207 Harvey Street Price: $20 for adults; $10 for children and seniors |
Rae Staseson
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Rae Staseson is an intermedia artist, educator, producer, and arts administrator. Her work has been exhibited in more than a dozen countries including at prestigious museums in France, Mexico, USA and Canada. She has performed in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, New York City, Chicago, Calgary, and Regina. Staseson’s work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, Harvard Film Archive, and the Walker Art Center, among others, including private collections. She is interested in making meaning from juxtapositions of body and site, in creating contemplative experiences while challenging the acts of ‘looking and listening’, as well as investigating the conceptual intersections of language, and creating extraordinary moments out of the mundane world that surrounds us.
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Conversations with a Faltering Heart
A congenital heart defect is my inheritance. Through my father I inherit my heart and with it a fallible valve. Through speaking and dancing I examine the timeline of my own heart. Musical score created by Jeff Morton using augmented steel guitar, piano and sound recording of my heart beat during an echocardiogram. In collaboration with Karlie King this work is part of The Moving Heart an interactive exhibition of sculptural hearts that asks us to slowly bring the internal external. Special thanks to Traci Foster and Deanna Peters as outside/inside eyes, Tom Perron for anatomy expertise, my ever patient cardiologist Dr. Colin Yeung, the Canada Council for the Arts, and SK Arts for funding this project. Duration: 14 minutes |
Photo by Kana Nemoto
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SINFONIA
How to express and describe human suffering, human loss in the time of the pandemic. How can one dancer convey the global loss we are experiencing. How can we even comprehend the scale of this loss? Perhaps it is in the personal stories, the individual ones that we can understand the scope of this human tragedy. The music inspired by the death of Christ. The pain of its mother The pain of all humanity. My approach will be of course inspired by the music and its absolute beauty. It resonates in so many hearts, and resonates with me because of its Christian background, because of my Catholic upbringing. The starting point is the pain of the mother losing a child. It is a universal pain. The dance will aim to express in a simple setting, an empty room, the loss. The absence. The “coming to terms with” If music and dance are able to elevate the soul, to make us feel part of the bigger universe, I truly hope to be able to pay homage to this, and in doing so actively participate in our global healing. Duration: 14 minutes (Review link: https://www.citadelcie.com/review-laurence-lemieuxs-sinfonia/) |
Credit: MIMNAGH
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Laurence Lemieux
As artistic director of Citadel + Compagnie for nearly two decades, Laurence Lemieux has established herself as a leader within Toronto’s dance community. Her multi-faceted experience as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and presenter has guided the company’s mandate of community outreach and engagement and given rise to C+C’s distinctive artistic voice. Born in Québec City, Lemieux studied dance at L’École Supérieure de Danse du Québec, and at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her performance career began when she joined Toronto Dance Theatre in 1986, dancing for founders David Earle, Peter Randazzo and Patricia Beatty, and later for Christopher House. A member of the company for 8 years, Lemieux’s 1998 performance in House’s Cryptoversa earned her the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Performance in Dance. Over the course of her career, Lemieux has danced for some of Canada’s most prominent choreographers, including William Douglas, Margie Gillis, James Kudelka, Benoît Lachambre, Sylvain Émard, and Jean-Pierre Perreault. Since presenting her first choreography in 1983, Lemieux has created over thirty original works, drawing deeply on personal experiences that resonate strongly with audiences and presenters alike. As an educator, Lemieux has taught at many respected institutions including Ryerson University, York University, Concordia University, the University of Quebec in Montreal, l’École Supérieure de Ballet Contemporain and Canada’s National Ballet School. Lemieux uses her cumulative artistic experience to inform her programming choices for the company’s multiple presentation series, showcasing the work of diverse talent from emerging, marginalized and established choreographers. In 2012, Lemieux created the Citadel Dance Program and brought high quality, accessible dance classes to children and youth living in Toronto’s Regent Park. She is a passionate advocate for the arts and is President of the board of Daniel Leveillé Danse in Montreal. Lemieux’s satisfaction as an artist comes from sharing her passion and talent with dance audiences and students, and as a deeply engaged and active member of the dance community. |
Rae Staseson’s Alphabet Elegy is a performed ‘list’, using the rhythm of voice, combined with an exploration of language, to pursue loss, grief, memory, and longing. Often political, sometimes playful, always personal, this work intends to challenge and entertain. Alphabet Elegy is a collaboration with sound designer Shelley Bindon, whose original soundscape will further transform the meaning and lamentation of this work.
For Alphabet Elegy, a list of losses, she broke apart songs, scales, intervals and meters of the music and sounds that mark milestones, grieve losses and help us let go of pain. The result is a soundscape that will haunt, lament and underscore the losses in ways that hit at our shared culture and experiences. “Rae’s list is subtle, subversive and in-your-face. The sound needs to hang around the words, cling from the walls but be there to poke, pluck and caress in the liminal spaces.” Date/Time April 7, Thursday at 7:30pm Location New Dance Horizons, 2207 Harvey Street Price: $20 for adults; $10 for children and seniors |
Rae Staseson is an intermedia artist, educator, producer, and arts administrator. Her work has been exhibited in more than a dozen countries including at prestigious museums in France, Mexico, USA and Canada. She has performed in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, New York City, Chicago, Calgary, and Regina. Staseson’s work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, Harvard Film Archive, and the Walker Art Center, among others, including private collections. She is interested in making meaning from juxtapositions of body and site, in creating contemplative experiences while challenging the acts of ‘looking and listening’, as well asinvestigatingthe conceptual intersections of language,and creating extraordinary moments
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Shelley Bindon
by Shelley Bindon Christie Schultz |
Shelley Bindon is a writer, communicator and multi-instrumentalist who is interested in how sound can accompany, augment and undermine communications. She designs soundscapes that dive into and play off the emotional context and content of art works.
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