Show # 3
Saturday, July 17, 2021

Show # 3

Featuring: Anastasia Evsigneeva, Anna Protsiou, Davida Monk, E-Major (Chris Edwards), Francine Merasty, I-Ying Wu, Jackie Latendresse, Joelle Fuller, Joseph Ashong & Family, Justine Erickson, Mac Findlay, Marcus Merasty, Michèle Moss and Tessa Rae Kuz.
Tickets:
Adult: $20.00
Child: $10.00
Free for children 6 years and under
Online Streaming: $10.00

Show Times:
7:30 PM (CST)

Show Dates:
Saturday, July 17, 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

  • Edward Poitras, Robin Poitras, Marcus Merasty — Monument

  • Edward Poitras, Robin Poitras, Anna Protsiou, Anastasia Evsigneeva, Marcus Merasty & Justine Erickson — Quadriga

  • Francine Merasty — Iskotew Iskwew (Book Launch)

  • Marcus Merasty, Anna Protsiou, Anastasia Evsigneeva, Tessa Rae Kuz, I-Ying Wu and Mac Findlay — Square Dance

  • Davida Monk — Songs without words 4

  • Anna Protsiou & Anastasia Evsigneeva — Re-Flex

  • Joseph Ashong & Family — Drumming

  • Michèle Moss — Untitled

  • Jackie Latendresse — Primordial (Inspired by Mary Wigman's Witch Dance. 1926; Music by Cliff Burns)

  • Davida Monk — Songs without words 3

  • Joelle Fuller & E-Major

  • Edward Poitras, Robin Poitras, Anna Protsiou, Anastasia Evsigneeva, Marcus Merasty & Justine Erickson — Quadriga

  • Davida Monk — Songs without words 6

  • Anna Protsiou & Anastasia Evsigneeva — Tangled

  • Michele Moss & E-Major — House Music

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.
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.
E-Major (Chris Edwards) exploded onto the electronic music scene in Kamloops, BC in 2008 while electrifying dance floors of all kinds.  His unique and energetic performance style paired with a vast knowledge of musical genres have proven irresistible to crowds looking for a dance party.  E-Major came up in the underground electronic scene of interior BC collaborating with local DJs including "Sgt. Seaby", "DJ Kudos", and "VanTek".  He soon found his own performance style blending funk, jazz, soul, and house music to achieve an electronic experience all his own. From 2016 to 2017 E-Major was in South Korea where he continued to play events as an international DJ at MUSE ON Vinyl Pub in Busan. 2018 and 2019 brought new projects and appearances in Regina at The Capitol, The Cure Kitchen+Bar, Abstractions Cafe, and Victoria’s Tavern. 
Davida Monk began dancing with Le Groupe de la Place Royale in Ottawa in 1985.  She created work for the company, served as Assistant Artistic Director to Peter Boneham and was instrumental in the development of Le Groupe Dance Lab that was Canada’s premiere choreographic development centre between 1988 and 2009.  In 2004 Monk founded M-body through which she advances her own creations and projects.

As a performer and as a choreographer Monk has been presented across Canada, in Poland and Finland. She is a frequent collaborator with fellow choreographers, dancers, musicians, poets, philosophers, visual artists and designers. 
Photo credit: Brad Fenty
Francine Merasty is a lawyer and a poet.  She is the author of poetry collection, Iskotew Iskwew: Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl (Bookland Press, 2021).  She holds a BA and JD from the University of Saskatchewan.  Francine began writing poetry while working for the National Inquiry into MMIWG as a way to release trauma.  She has published in several magazines and will also be featured in the poetry anthology The Best American Poetry 2021, released in Septembe.  She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Photo credit: Dima Lavrentiev
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.
Photo credit: Ken Greenhorn
Jackie Latendresse is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo where she obtained her H.B.A. in Dance with a minor in Fine Arts. She founded the Free Flow Dance Theatre Company in 1995, in Kitchener Ontario. The Company eventually relocated to Toronto and has now found a permanent home base in Saskatoon. Jackie has been choreographing and producing shows since 1993 when she presented her first full evening of dance works. Since then, she has created over 50 short works and 20 feature-length pieces. She has toured across Canada multiple times presenting work in both traditional and non-traditional venues. Jackie was recently awarded the YWCA Women of Distinction Award 2021 for arts and culture. She is an advocate for dance and the arts in Saskatchewan.
Joelle Fuller’s music is a narrative of empowerment, her delivery extroverted and precise. Her song writing exemplifies strength in grappling with often silenced realities, while placing value in the brighter moments too.

Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Joelle grew up listening to her father’s blues and jazz records. Her influences varied, ranging from Whitney Houston and Pat Benetar, to Buffy Saint Marie and Brandy Carlile. Joelle maintained her adoration of jazz music however, often returning to iconic jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn. Joelle’s own sound is deeply rooted in folk rock, and encompasses elements of jazz, soul, and reggae.
From Anansi (Dancing & Wild Tales)
Joseph Ashong has recorded and performed with Peter Gabriel, Angelique Kidjoe, Papa Wimba, Farafina, Annax Bickie, Alpha YaYa Diallo, Four the Moment, Prophet Organs and Juno Award winner Bill Usher. He is often called upon to share his knowledge of traditional Ghanaian culture, music and dance in educational settings.  He taught West African percussion and dance at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music for three years, and has conducted classes and workshop with the National Ballet, “Creating Dance in the Schools” program.  The Toronto Symphony’s ‘Adopt a Musician; program and the Art Gallery of Ontario’s “Spring into Art” programs as well as many, many classroom workshops and presentations.
Ashong now resides in Saskatoon, where he continues his involvement in the music and art scene.  In the summers of 2005 and 2007 he taught at the University of Saskatchewan during summer Session.  He continues to teach and give school presentations at all levels. He joined with two long time Saskatchewan friends from Boomtown Drums as “The Ghanadians”, playing sets at Festivals and special events such as Engineers without borders. He is lead percussionist with Oral Fuentes Reggae Band.
Photo credit: Courtney Maertens
Justine Erickson is a Winnipeg based dancer and has recently graduated from the Senior Professional Program at the School of Contemporary Dancers, as well as completing her BA Honours majoring in Dance at the University of Winnipeg. She has had the opportunity to perform with companies such as Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, NAfro Dance Productions in Winnipeg, and New Dance Horizons in Regina.
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: Dima Lavrentiev
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.
Michèle Moss is choreographer, researcher and community animator based in Calgary but engaged in a world of dance from NYC to Dakar to Havana and more. She considers herself a citizen of the world; born in the UK of Jamaican and British parents, raised in Montréal and frequent flyer in search of the best vantage point from which to consider dance and dancing. Michèle began as a tap-dancing tot in the UK and then had the good fortune to study at NCC in Montreal (Negro Community Centre). She went on to participate in studio training, nightclub practices and urban dance forms. Her practice and professional performance career on the stage as well as earning two degrees allowed her to move into the academe. She is currently an associate professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary-with pedagogy, global dance practices and jazz dance as her focus.  She greatly enjoys her UCalgary teaching, creative and ethnographic research, as well as local and national commissions, international teaching and the many opportunities to conduct ethnographic research in the field and at home. She is co-founder of concert jazz dance company and community school, DJD (Decidedly Jazz Danceworks) in Calgary, Alberta and continues to be involved in many aspects of the company and school. The company just celebrated 38 years this past March 2021. Michèle has continued to enjoy a vibrant career performing, creating, researching, teaching internationally and serving locally and nationally. Her choreographic work has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Heritage Canada as well as numerous awards/scholarships to support her work and research in performance-creation, ethnography in numerous field sites and at home. Michèle is most at home in the teaching and learning circle. Moss’s most recent commissions DJD (2021) COVID Drive-in show and NAfro Dance in Winnipeg, Manitoba at (2019). Recent ethnographic research and teaching assignment was in Senegal, West African at Ecole des Sables.
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.
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*Special thanks to the following agencies: Government of Canada, Saskatchewan Arts Board, City of Regina, Canada Council for the Arts, CanDance, Community Initiatives Fund, Dance Saskatchewan Inc., SaskCulture, and Business for the Arts
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