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NIGHTLIGHT is a 30-min solo choreographed and danced by George Stamos, drawing upon the unique and contrasting qualities of nocturnal human sensations. This work's first iteration will premiere in Regina, presented by New Dance Horizons, in early September 2021.
NIGHTLIGHT is inspired by the restful, agitated, and exhilarating qualities of life at night. Whether seen through the lens of contemplative solitude or vibrant nightlife, NIGHTLIGHT interplays between public revelry and private repose. From the calming cocoon of a nightlight to the hypnotic intensity of club dancing, this solo evokes how we all move towards nocturnal rituals that make us feel safe. The NIGHTLIGHT project received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and is a co-production with Agora de la Danse. This work was created during residencies with Nyata Nyata, Par BLeux and Agora de la Danse in 2021. |
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Where: New Dance Horizons Studio,
2207 Harvey Street, Regina, SK, S4N 2N2 When: Saturday, September 11th, 2021 7:30 - 8 pm Sunday, September 12th, 2021 matinee 2 - 2:30 pm & 7:30 - 8 pm Tickets: $15.00 ARTIST'S STATEMENT I acknowledge and promote the importance of feminist, LGB2TQ, BIPOC and neurodiversity spaces in the arts sector and society. In my body of work, I have focused on the resilience and representation of diverse queer people in ways that travel across the disciplines of movement, performance art, theatre, music and digital art. I am interested in dissolving binary thinking about categories of gender and sexuality while maintaining recognition of spaces that exist between and across them. As I have continued to integrate digital technologies into my work over the years my objective has been to resist fetishizing them but to view them as tools for human expression. In my practice as a filmmaker, I often use the medium as a way to represent lived experiences in surrealistic ways with humour, text and movement. With a foundation in occidental contemporary dance practices, nightclub dances, and ballet, my work is greatly informed by my studies of Central African dance technique at Nyata Nyata school of dance (2011-2019), and my academic research associated with the Graduate Diploma program in Communication Studies at Concordia University (2017-2018). |
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Thank you to everyone who joined us in bringing Halloween on Harvey Street to life. While the evening was cold, we were grateful for the gift of wood from The Good Wood Guys, the gorgeous gourds & pumpkins from Lincoln Gardens, the all orange pumpkin man suit from Peavey Mart, the witches black overalls from Red Wing Regina, the delicate orange blossoms from The Flower Hut, the masks from Dean Renwick Design Studio, and the gift certificate and stickers from Core Coffee.
Special Thanks to all the fabulous volunteers, fire keepers, Kris Evans for the costume support and to Patrick James for technical support. We are grateful to our neighbours for their generosity and fabulous Halloween yards. The marvelous singing, dancing and performances by guest artists: Matt Bryson, Mac Findlay, Roderick T. Johnson, Gary Varro, Tessa Rae Kuz, Errol Kinistino, Josie Linkla, Tara Solhiem, Amy Mantyka, Robin Poitras and Keith McCashin made for a memorable Halloween adventure. Thanks to our documentation team: Ian Campbell Video, Edward Poitras and Kris Evans photography. We hope you enjoy the following glimpse of our Halloween on Harvey Street. |
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New Dance Horizons are thrilled to announce the next action by Gary Varro - Walk With Me, Love - as part of his continuing LTD Edition World of Oneder Artist Residency.
Bipedal your body through Wascana Park to take in the visual, aural and sensory pleasures of walking in silence and in individual and collective states of mind. Surrender yourself, following Gary on a gentle walk on a meditative, soulful journey. Taking place the day before Valentine’s Day, this walk is a way to reflect on its significance whatever that may mean to you. A single flower will be given to each walker and can be kept, given away or released during the walk. Location: Wascana Hill Date/Time: Sunday, February 13 @ 1:30pm The walk is a loop and will take approximately 1 hour. At the conclusion of the walk back at the top of the hill, you are welcome to a special spicy chilly hot chocolate courtesy of @corecoffeeyqr specialty coffee + snacks Thanks to Amy + Tim Weisgarber. |
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 |
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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 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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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 |
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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. |
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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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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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Love+Loss Performance Series: Outreach Lutheran Church
Date/Time: Friday, April 15th at 7:30PM Location: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (1909 Ottawa St, Regina) FREE* and welcome donations |
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Credit: AliLauren Creative Services
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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). |
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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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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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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Artist
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 |
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Flowers
Solo dance by Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras, performed by Krista Solheim. Duration: 20 min Artist
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. 
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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 Artist
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. 
Photo credit: Michael Bell
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Jolene Bailie is a choreographer, director and producer of contemporary dance. Her work reflects on humanness, soul and identity to express a deeply human experience that is honest, complex and thorough.
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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. |
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Caitlin Coflin is a dancer, dance teacher, and Somatic Movement Educator (SME) in Regina, SK. Caitlin completed her post-secondary training in Winnipeg, MB and received her BA Honours in Dance from the University of Winnipeg in affiliation with the Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers. Since returning to Regina in 2010 she has been a member of the teaching staff at Youth Ballet of Saskatchewan and teaches through New Dance Horizons’ Dance Core classes. In 2020, Caitlin completed her training to become a Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and Somatic Practitioner (CMA-SP). Caitlin was introduced to the Itcush Method as a child while taking modern classes at Youth Ballet with Elaine Hanson. She continued her studies with Amelia Itcush, Ashley Johnson, and Kana Nemoto and since 2018, has immersed herself in all aspects of the training, having regular private Mitzvah sessions as well as taking classes and workshops in the Itcush Method and Itcush into Dance. Caitlin has danced professionally with Robin Poitras' company Rouge-Gorge and with Connie Moker Wernikowski, and has been giving many opportunities to present her own work through New Dance Horizons.
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Katrina Currie graduated from Canada’s National Ballet School in 1997. She went on to apprentice with the National Ballet of Canada in 1997/1998. With Guillaume Cote, Katrina performed the Swan Lake Pas De Deux at Canada’s Governor General Awards in honour of Karen Kain in November 1997. After a decision to move into the world of contemporary dance, Katrina attended the School of Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers and was named an honorary graduate of their professional program in spring 1999. She went on to dance with Ruth Cansfield Dance, which was a renowned Winnipeg contemporary dance company. Katrina has danced the work of several renowned choreographers including John Neumeier, Rudy Van Dantzig, Ruth Cansfield and Brent Lott. She studied dance in Germany and Vienna. Katrina now lives in Regina with her husband and four young children and works as an Occupational Therapist for Prairie Valley Schools.
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Anastasia Evsigneeva is a contemporary dance and circus artist of Russian origin. In 2019 she graduated from the School of Contemporary Dancers and University of Winnipeg with a BA Honors in Dance. Her dance training is enhanced by somatic practices, intense contortion, hand balancing and partner acrobatics. Anastasia is currently in the Artistic Residency with New Dance Horizons and under mentorship with Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras.
In August 2019 she started learning a silk dance technique under Robin Poitras’ guidance. Being inspired by working with Robin, she created a choreographic duet titled TANGLED in collaboration with Anna Protsiou which has developed into the idea of creating a short dance film in Summer/Fall 2020. Anastasia is currently in a creation process for her first self-produced show co-directed with Anna. The production got support from Canada Council for the Arts and will take place in Winnipeg, on June 3 & 4, 2022. Read more about the artist-in-residence Anastasia. |
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Margie Gillis has been at the forefront of modern dance for more than 47 years. Internationally acclaimed, Margie is one of the most influential Canadian choreographers/dancers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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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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Brooke Hess (she/her) is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brooke has a close relationship with the School of Contemporary Dancers, and began classes in their general program, followed by in the Junior Professional Program, which was followed by the Senior Professional Program. Brooke is a 2021 Graduate of the School of Contemporary dancers. She has worked professionally with dance artists such as Robin Poitras, Casmiro Nhussi, Paula Blair, and Stephanie Ballard. Brooke has also worked as a choreographer for Juno award winning producer Danny Schur.
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Connie Moker Wernikowski holds an Honours BA in Dance from York University and an M.Ed from the University of Regina. She was Artistic Director of Youth Ballet and Contemporary Dance of Saskatchewan (YBCS) from 1994 to 2009. Her long career, centred in Regina, has included work as a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer. She moved to Regina in 1975 to be a company member of Regina Modern Dance Works. She has also toured through Canada as an independent soloist. She has been guest choreographer for several dance and theatre companies including Corps Bara Dance Theatre in Calgary. Her work, A Secret Society, was performed at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival Gala in Aberdeen Scotland, August 2013. In recent years Connie has produced several new works often presented by New Dance Horizons. Connie has diversified into teaching yoga as well as dance, and owns Big Fish Yoga in Regina.
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Anna Protsiou is a contemporary dance artist and circus artist specializing in contortion based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated from the School of Contemporary Dancers’ Professional Program in 2018 and has since been performing as a dancer and a contortionist. Some of her performing highlights as a dancer include works by Odette Heyn, Stephanie Ballard, Peter Quanz, Harold Rhéaume and Le fils d'Adrien danse as well as, in Ilse Torres and Roberto Mosqueda in Mexico. Anna’s recently created TANGLED, in collaboration with Anastasia Evsigneeva. Together they have created two versions; a live performance piece as well as TANGLED the film. She is extremely excited to be under the direction and mentorship of Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras and an artist in residence with New Dance Horizons since July 2020; and she looks forward to all the opportunities to arise in the future. Anna is currently working on co-directing and creating for the show Moving Roots that will take place in Winnipeg in June 2022.
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Hailing from Regina, Saskatchewan Tessa Kuz is a dance artist and teacher. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ryerson University majoring in Performance Dance. Throughout her time in Toronto, she performed in work by Canadian choreographers James Kudelka, Heidi Strauss, Kate Hilliard, Marie-Josée Chartier and Louis Laberge-Cote.
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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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Tara Dawn Solheim works across genres, her original creations integrate poetry and melody in acappella performance. Tara Dawn spent a year in the UK and later five years in Japan where she performed extensively and wrote for a number of music groups. Since returning to Saskatchewan, Tara Dawn has continued to create new work through residencies at The Banff Centre, St. Peter’s Abbey and Wallace Stegner House. Her experiences have led her to explore the physicality of the voice.
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I-Ying Wu is an improvisation practitioner and researcher. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Northampton, UK in 2014 and completed her postdoctoral research at the Improvisation Studies Centre based in the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance, University of Regina during 2016-2017. Her PhD practice-led research employed a Daoist understanding of qi to develop a system of improvisational movement. Informed by ancient texts on Chinese traditional qigong and Daoist philosophy, her improvisation practice focuses on subtle awareness of the very moment when an improvisational phenomenon emerges.
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Anastasia Evsigneeva
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Brooke Hess
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New Dance Horizons are excited to premier Tell me a story grandma, an Inuit legend by Laurentio Arnatsiaq. Thursday, June 23rd at 7pm at the RPL Film Theatre. This short performance video is co-produced with Sâkêwêwak for their Storytellers Festival.
Date: Thursday June 23, 2022 Time: 7:00pm - 8:45 pm Location: RPL Film Theatre, 2311 12 Ave, Regina SK Inuit legend orally transmitted by Laurentio Arnatsiaq’s mother: Catherine Aluluuk
Co-Artistic Directors: Geneviève Pepin, Robin Poitras, Edward Poitras, in collaboration with Laurentio Arnatsiaq Director of Photography and Editor: Ian Campbell Videographers: Ian Campbell and Edward Poitras Performers: Storyteller, Drumdancer: Laurentio Arnatsiaq Caribou dancers: Robin Poitras and Marcus Merasty Grandmother and Ptarmigan: I-Ying Wu Little bird dancers: Anastasia Evsigneeva and Anna Protsiou Little child: Anna Protsiou Subtitles translated from Inuktitut to English: Laurentio Arnatsiaq Costumes: Costume for Laurentio: Geneviève Pepin Caribou, Ptarmigan and little birds Costumes: Edward Poitras and Robin Poitras Caribou, Ptarmigan and little birds Choreography: Robin Poitras Stage Design: Edward Poitras, Robin Poitras, Geneviève Pepin |
Storyteller, Drumdancer: Laurentio Arnatsiaq
(Video still, Ian Campbell)
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(L to R) Little bird dancers: Anastasia Evsigneeva, Anna Protsiou and Ptarmigan: I-Ying Wu
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(L to R) Amanda Testini, Joel Montgrand as Napew, Tai Amy Grauman as Iskwewo & Madelaine McCallum;
Photo credit BB Collective
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‘You used to call me Marie…’ follows two souls through eight Métis love stories at eight distinct periods in history. Moving through different lives, we watch Iskwewo, Napew and Mistatim before and after the colonization of Treaty 6. We watch the emergence of the Métis nations across the plains, the robust colonization that arises from the fur trade and the political uprising of the Métis association of Alberta in the 1930’s. Beginning in a creation story and ending in the present, ‘You used to call me Marie…’ shares the Callihoo women’s love stories, their fight for their people as well as their resilient sovereignty as Métis women.
Show 1: Saturday, July 16 at 7:00 pm Show 2: Sunday, 17 at 1:30 pm Tickets: Adult $15, Senior/Student $10, Children (13 and under) $5, Family Pass $20 (2 Adults + up to 3 Children) Location: New Dance Horizons, 2207 Harvey St, Regina, SK Note: Seating for the outdoor performance will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own folding chair and umbrella. |
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