SEASON 35

NEW DANCE HORIZONS'
in Partnership with
VERTIGO SERIES and QUEER CITY CINEMA
Presents
A Rare Blue Moon Halloween Howl!

Enjoy a Halloween Adventure on Harvey Street. Visit NDH's pumpkin patch with dance and music streaming live!

Blue moons occur every two and a half years, while full moons only occur on Halloween every 19 years. Halloween 2020's rare blue moon is a Hunter's Moon that will be appearing across all time zones at 10:49 EDT. The last time this phenomenon happened was in 1944!

Sponsored by: Corn Maiden Market at Lincoln Gardens.

What: See X O Skeleton (a video dance loop projection) by the Skeleton Crew (Seema Goel, Robin Poitras, and Stephen Kirkland). Live dance, music, and performances will be live streamed onto front of NDH building, featuring VIBES YQR (street dancers), Colby Nargang, Roderick T. Johnson, Krista Solheim, Gary Varro, and Tara Solheim.

Where: In front of New Dance Horizons building, 2207 Harvey Street. Don't miss the Halloween themed yards by our neighbours across the street!

When: Saturday, October 31st from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

How: Drive, Bike or Walk! Wear a mask and maintain social distancing!

**Can't make it in person? You can always watch the performances online! Check out our home page on Halloween night (5pm - 7pm) for the live stream link!



A Fellow Infinite Jest, 2010 Digital Photograph
The Skeleton Crew (Seema Goel, Robin Poitras, and Stephen Kirkland)
Performer: Robin Poitras

The Vertigo Series is a traveling performance event series for emerging and established writers and musicians of all genres. Events are hosted at various venues around Regina throughout the year. The Vertigo Series believes a spark can happen when artistic disciplines are brought into conversation and partners with other organizations in the community to create collaborative events. 

Tara Dawn Solheim has performed in many contexts throughout Canada, England and Japan. Working across genres, her original creations integrate poetry and melody in acappella performance. After studying English and creative writing at the University of Saskatchewan, she spent a year in the UK and later five years living in Japan. She continues to create new work through residencies at The Banff Centre, St. Peter’s College and Wallace Stegner House. Tara Dawn’s exploration of the physicality of the voice has led her to study practices including Fitzmaurice Voicework, Itcush Method, and the Feldenkrais Method. 

Queer City Cinema Inc. (based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) was initiated in 1996 as a biennial film and video festival and now presents one festival annually -a combination of Performatorium: Festival of Queer Performance and Queer City Cinema: Film Festival.Performatorium and QCC explore performance art and film respectively as means to gather insight and appreciation of queer art and artists locally,nationally and internationally. The range and diversity of performance art and film presented provide the queer and arts communities of Saskatchewan the rare opportunity to survey the rich and colourful dimension of performance art and film and, in turn, are given important insights into a variety of queer cultures.Works in Performatorium and QCC Film Festival act as a means to express and analyze subjects that include –but are not limited to –gender, the body, race, sexuality, identity and the creative process.Other activities include national tours of film programs and curating annual film and performanceart programs for Pitos Waskochepayis, a Two Spirit/Queer Film and Media Festival in Prince Albert Saskatchewan.

Gary Varro is a curator and visual artist based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada where in 1996 he established and continues to present Queer City Cinema Festival and Performatorium Festival of Queer Performance. Since the mid 90’s, Gary Varro’s visual art practice has proposed critical relationships with the architectural and social spaces they occupy and reference. Areas of interest include: queer identities; public/private domains; self humiliation and vulnerability; spectacle and transgression; humour and pathos, endurance and the creative process itself.

Colby Nargang is a Regina, Saskatchewan based entertainer whose music pays tribute to Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. He has been singing since he was a child, however it was his performance of Roy Orbison's "Running Scared" at Telemiracle 27 in 2003 that opened doors to many opportunities. Colby is a well-known representative for people with disabilities as he was born with a rare disorder, Williams Syndrome. Unique to some individuals with this syndrome is an exceptional aptitude for music and the ability to mimic, which he was fortunate to be gifted with (for more information on Williams Syndrome please visit http://caws-can.org). Colby decided on the title of this album, "If I Can Dream" because it has always been his dream to be an entertainer and songwriter. Though he has had some rough times in his life with his disability and bullying, he still has followed his dreams. Colby feels that if he can overcome the obstacles in his life to achieve his dreams, there is nothing that can stop anyone from achieving theirs.

VIBES YQR
Mohit
Eddy Alvaro
Tessa Rae
Rimo Creer
Ray Chien 

Costume Designs By
Robin Poitras
Edward Poitras
Kris Evans

Technical Direction
Ian Campbell is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who works in video, installation and performance art. His short films have been screened across Canada at film and experimental media festivals such as Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal), WNDX (Winnipeg), Antimatter (Victoria), 8Fest (Toronto) and others in Europe and the US. He has presented performance work using live improvised projected video at artist run centres and performance venues across western Canada. He is currently based in Saskatchewan where he teaches film at the University of Regina.  

Corn Maiden Market at Lincoln Gardens
Looking for fresh produce? Stop by Corn Maiden Market at Lincoln Gardens in Lumsden. This garden centre and country market offers fresh produce, herbs, locally made jams, honey, and baking! Gift shop onsite.
Visit the Pumpkin Patch and Haunted House through October 31st.

Dancing at Dusk - A Moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring
October 21st – 28th

Photo © polyphem Filmproduktion

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Springboard Performance is thrilled to present Pina Bausch's stunning interpretation of The Rite of Spring (1975) performed by a specially assembled company and produced by the Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler's Wells as part of the Fluid All Fall programming. Faithful to Stravinsky's composition, this seminal work examines the power of ritual and sacrifice, as a young woman is chosen to mark the changing seasons. This film is a remarkable achievement in so many ways; it's visceral, beautifully shot, lovingly detailed, luscious visuals and powerful themes. You will not want to miss this rare opportunity to see timeless dance work re imagined.

TRAILER

Culture Days
September 25th – October 25th

Time for Time

NDH is excited to partner with the Compaigne Marie Chouinard to bring you Time for Time. Marie is pleased to present this dance performance, an event that resonates with the existential questions that inundate our lives.

« dessin par Marie Chouinard »
« drawing by Marie Chouinard » 

Concept | Marie Chouinard 

Dancers (alternating) | Michael Baboolal, Adrian W.S Batts, Jossua Collin Dufour, Valeria Galluccio, Motrya Kozbur, Luigi Luna, Sayer Mansfield, Celeste Robbins, Carol Prieur and other guest dancers.

Thursday, September 17, 2020
Six o'clock p.m. in Montreal - 3 p.m. in Los Angeles - 7 p.m. in Sao Paulo - 10 p.m. in Dakar - midnight in Paris - 1 a.m. à Beirut - 3.30 a.m. in Bangalore - 7 a.m. in Tokyo.

Friday, September 18, 2020: 
One o’clock p.m. in Montreal - 10 a.m. in Los Angeles - 2 p.m. in Sao Paulo - 5 p.m. in Dakar - 7 p.m. in Paris - 8 p.m. in Istanbul - 10.30 p.m. in Bangalore - 2 a.m. in Tokyo.

Saturday, September 19, 2020: 
Eight o’clock a.m. in Montreal - 5 a.m in Los Angeles - 9 a.m. in Sao Paulo- noon in Dakar - 2 p.m. in Paris - 3 p.m. in Palestine - 5.30 p.m. in Bangalore - 9 p.m. in Tokyo.

Over three days, according to schedules adapted to audiences all over the world, the dancers of the Compagnie Marie Chouinard will take turns interacting with the audience via Zoom.
 
These spontaneous dance performance will take their inspiration from a heartfelt wish that a member of the audience confides to a performer. In response to this desire, this first step, the dancer will play the role of medium between the forces of life and the unconscious mind of the person who has made the wish, initiating a flow of energy, a movement towards a possible enactment of change. After performing this kind of incantatory dance, reminiscent of the Pythia in ancient Greece, performers will take time to regenerate their bodies and minds before undertaking a new performance.
 
The performer “replies” to each wish expressed with a dance which lasts for approximately five minutes. On each of the three days, members of the audience will be able to view all the dances and all the sharing of wishes. This free event is open to everyone. You just need to register, and 24 hours before the performance you will be provided with a link.

 This moment of exchange is our gift to you. Take the time.
Time for time,
time for sharing, 
time for hope, 
time for intimacy, 
time for change, 
time for introspection, 
time for joy, 
time for you!

A Tiny World's Fair & Secret Garden

Ready to come adventure through the realm of a tiny world?

When: August 4th, 2020 - August 21st, 2020 (Mondays-Fridays)
Where: Art Gallery of Regina (Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre), 2420 Elphinstone St, Regina, SK
Time: 12PM - 5PM Monday through Friday
            Guest artists Dick Moulding and Ed Finch in the gallery Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 2PM - 4PM bringing their Tiny World
            creations to life!
Price: Free Admission

Grand Closing Event Friday, August 21, celebrating A Tiny World's Fair!

Come join New Dance Horizons for the closing event of A Tiny World’s Fair and Secret Garden at the Art Gallery of Regina. This event will feature guest artists and live performances by: Tom Brown, Mohit, Tessa Rae, Emily Solstice Tait, Aaron Santos, Renz Rivero, Jerry Siphanthong, and Garry Varro (Garry Gulliver & the 19 COVID Trolls performance piece). Guests may also reserve a spot to enjoy a miniature pizza by Pizza Tom Brown to enjoy alongside a miniature martini –Martiny-s– a twist on a classic cocktail. These wee martiny-s are alcohol free so all ages can enjoy a sip!

Tom Brown’s FEEDING THE MASSES video on http://www.streamofdance.ca/tinyworld offers a glimpse of this live tiny adventure that is sure to whet your appetite!

Tom Brown is an artist living in Calgary, AB, where he graduated from the Alberta College of Art & Design in 2015. His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including the Today Show. Working primarily in handmade functional miniature, the focus of his practice is public engagement. Beginning doing pop-up public performances in his fully functional Miniature Kitchen as a part of the larger project, Feeding the Masses, his methods of public engagement have evolved to encompass multiple additional projects. Finders Keepers features a handmade miniature, hidden each Saturday, for a member of the public to find. He has successfully hidden and had found over 140 items since this project's 2017 inception. The items are hidden primarily in Calgary, but locations of successful hides include Spain, France, Japan, and a number of Canadian and American cities. His most recent project, Starting Small, is a collaborative initiative, utilizing his practice as a miniaturist to hand-make miniature skateboard decks which are then distributed to interested members of the public to paint, distribute further to their friends, and return to be catalogued and published. Since beginning this project in early 2019, he has distributed nearly 200 skateboards to people as far away as Turkey, Australia, and Sweden.

There is a contrast in his work, as the formlessness of virtually published work contradicts the heavily process-based practice of creating handmade functional miniatures. This dichotomy is useful in creating opportunities to move virtual interactions from the internet to the physical world, as in his projects Finders Keepers and Starting Small. Cultivating the internet as a display medium, while maintaining visual art as context, he hopes to continue to create new ways to interact with art.

Check out Tom’s website and Instagram to see his delicious creations!