Show # 2
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Show # 2

Featuring: Anastasia Evsigneeva, Anna Protsiou, Bill Coleman, Gary Varro, I-Ying Wu, Mac Findlay,
Marcus Merasty, Mark Shaub and Tessa Rae Kuz.

Tickets:
Adult: $20.00
Child: $10.00
Free for children 6 years and under
Online Streaming: $10.00

Show Time:
7:30 PM (CST)

Show Dates:
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Show Location:
NDH Secret Garden Summer Stage
New Dance Horizons Backyard, ​2207 Harvey St, Regina, SK

Please note all shows are limited to 35 guests, and are planned to be held outside weather permitting. If weather conditions are challenging the shows will be moved inside to New Dance Horizons studio where we have a limited capacity per show.

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For more information email info@newdancehorizons.ca or call us at (306) 525-5393.

Program

• Marcus Merasty performing Treaty 4 Monument
  
  
• Anna Protsiou & Anastasia Evsigneeva performing Re-Flex
  
  
• Bill Coleman performing The Third Man
  
  
• Marcus Merasty, Anna Protsiou, Anastasia Evsigneeva, I-Ying Wu, Mac Findlay & Tessa Rae Kuz performing Square Dance
  
  
• Gary Varro & Mac Findlay performing Gulliver
  
  
• Marcus Merasty, Anna Protsiou & Anastasia Evsigneeva performing Serpent Trio
  
  
• Brothers Plaid — Bill Coleman & Mark Shaub performing Saran Rap
  

About Artists

Photo credit: Robert Wilson

Anastasia Evsigneeva is a dance and circus artist. She graduated from The Professional Program of The School of Contemporary Dancers, Winnipeg, in 2019 with BA Hons in Dance. In summer 2020 Anastasia founded her performance arts company Moving Roots with the goal to build the body of work of her own and in collaboration with other artists. Since July 2020 Anastasia has started The Artistic Residency at New Dance Horizons under mentorship with Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras.

More about Anastasia evsigneeva

Anastasia evsigneeva's website

Photo credit: Robert Wilson

Anna Protsiou, originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, Anna graduated with a Bachelor Honours Degree in Dance from the School of Contemporary Dancers’ Professional Program. Anna practices and performs as a dancer and as a contortionist and loves to integrate the two genres. Anna is currently under a mentorship with Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras as part of New Dance Horizons’ 2020-2021 35th season.

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Bill Coleman is a choreographer and performer His choreographic work has been presented at the Tramway in Glasgow, New York’s Dance Theatre Workshop, Place Des Arts, Montreal, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Bill collaborated with the legendary jazz band the Sun Ra Arkestra to create Hymn To The Universe in 2008, and is featured in OutSideIn, a 40-minute 3D film that premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

More about bill coleman

Bill Coleman's Website

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.

Photo credit: Raymond Ambrosi

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.

Mac Findlay is an artist from Regina, Located on Treaty 4 Territory. He received acting training as a cast member of Globe Theatre’s Young Company in the 2018-2019 season, which culminated in the Sandbox Series show Concord Floral. He is now pursuing studies in Music and Theatre performance and interdisciplinary social studies. He is curious and inspired with the ways that young people are using the creative arts to mobilize around important social issues. He would like to thank Robin Poitras for her mentorship, his family for their ongoing support and New Dance Horizons for the opportunity to be part of their 35th season.

Photo credit: Neil Sawatzky

Marcus Merasty is a dance artist from Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan and is of Cree descent, Assin’skowitiniwak meaning “People of the rocky area”. His interest in dance began with learning traditional Métis jigging in 2013. A year later, following the invitation to perform in a contemporary dance work by Edward Poitras and Robin Poitras he began to pursue a life in dance. This was also the beginning of an on-going mentorship with artists Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras. Since then Marcus has received training in theatre from the Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre and participated in the Indigenous Dance Residency (2016) and the Indigenous Choreographers Creation Lab (2019) at The Banff Centre, and has toured across eastern Canada with The Dancers of Damelahamid. Marcus recently completed the 4 year Professional Program at The School of Contemporary Dancers and is working toward his BA. (Hons) in Contemporary Dance from the University of Winnipeg. He is currently employed with New Dance Horizons with a major focus on archiving the organization’s 35 year history.

Photo credit: Dima Lavrentiev

Mark Shaub was born in Bartlesville Oklahoma. He has a degree in Dance from York University, and has danced with many companies and choreographers, most notably with Bill Coleman and Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, where he performed for 16 years. After his performing career, he worked in the Dance Section of the Canada Council for the Arts. Mark has spent ten years touring with Cirque du Soleil as Artistic Director. As the pandemic brought all touring activity to a stop, Mark readjusted his life and is now running a mobile café and bike repair business called Les Mecs Mobiles with his friend Tony Chong in Montreal.

Photo credit: Francesca Chudnoff

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.