Show # 4
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Show # 4

Featuring: Brooke Hess, Gerry Morita, I-Ying Wu, Marcus Merasty, Richard Lee, 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 Date:
Saturday, July 24, 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.

A confirmation email will be sent to you for your tickets. Please bring this confirmation to the Show.
For more information email info@newdancehorizons.ca or call us at (306) 525-5393.

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Program

• Marcus Merasty — Monument
  
  
• Brooke Hess — Que sera
  
  
• Richard Lee — Untitled
  
  
• I-Ying Wu — Dance with the Wind
  
  
• Tessa Rae Kuz — Annie's Dance
  
  
• Marcus Merasty & Brooke Hess — Quadriga (by Edward Poitras & Robin Poitras)
  
  
• Gerry Marita & Richard Lee — RV There Yet?

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About Artists

Brooke Hess is a Winnipeg based dance artist.  She is a recent graduate from the School of Contemporary Dancers Senior Professional Program.  Brooke has had the opportunity to perform in the following professional works: Performing Artists against Climate change, New Manitoba Media Presentation, and Casmiro Nahussi’s NaFro: Return of the Dead and Nafro Festival 2020.  Brooke is looking forward to performing with New Dance Horizons!

Gerry Morita (BA Dance/ MFA Theatre) has lived and worked in Vancouver, Montréal, and Tokyo as a dancer, choreographer, performance artist and teacher before moving to Edmonton and becoming Mile Zero Dance’s Artistic Director in 2006. Her work has toured Poland, Turkey, Estonia, Canada, and Japan.  

Morita’s body of work involves continuous inquiry into new ways of seeing movement, the body, and the spaces between us. She studies and teaches contact improvisation, Noguchi Taiso and other somatic-based and improving techniques, working with artists from all disciplines in a vast array of both conventional and site-specific venues. She has received the Mayor’s Award for Innovation in Artistic Direction, the Edmonton Salute for Excellence, Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund and was one of Alberta’s 25 Influential Artists recognized in 2016.

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.

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.

Richard Lee is a performer, creator, and educator based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). In addition to B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Alberta, he has independently trained in contemporary dance across North America and Europe. Past adventures with Mile Zero include Night Cuts, R.V. There Yet?, Archival B.A.M., Dances & Devices, Endangered Species, and Knowledge Box. He has also danced in works for Mélanie Demers, The Good Women Dance Collective, Tania Alvarado, kloetzl& co., Amber Borotsik, Cloudsway Dance Theatre, and Troy Emery Twigg, among others.  His own creations (dance, theatre, and stuff-in-between) have been presented by Mile Zero Dance, The Good Women Dance Collective, The Expanse Festival, Dancers' Studio West, and CanAsian Dance. In 2015, he was honoured with a Sterling Award for his work on The Antyssey, co-written with Joel Crichton.

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.