To sign up for the October 17 performance of MOSSBELLY, presented as part of the Music Gallery’s 2024 Series X Avant XIX: TeXture, please reserve through Showclix. For the October 20 and 22 performances, please visit Eventbrite or see the “REGISTER HERE” button.
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An intergenerational performance and choreographic meditation on our human connection to land, plant life, nature and time, MOSSBELLY combines the movement of the body with methods of encountering plant-life. Emerging from her long-term and deep engagements with moss, artist Angela Vitovec asks, “What does moss look like when it dances?
Through the lens and in the spirit of the moss plant, dancers move, connect and support each other just as moss supports the ecosystems of a forest. This is a choreography of horizontal harmony with no centre, just rhythms that embrace us and develop a new and entirely sensual poetry of bodies and their presence. MOSSBELLY is a slow, studied, and soothing performance that, like moss, inhabits time and space like a forest and quietly integrates itself into the cracks of daily urban concrete spaces.
Note: This program has limited capacity. Check back here for a registration link.
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This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.
This program is co-presented with The Music Gallery and Dancemakers. The program is made possible with generous support from the Lindy Green Family Foundation.
Image credit: Rehearsal stills of MOSSBELLY, November 2024. Featured: Angela Vitovec with Ann Trépanier, Kate Nankervis, and Suvi Kemppainen. Program held at The Music Gallery as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art 2024. Original Videography: Kendra Epik.
October 17, October 20, October 22
6:00pm – 7:15pm
4:00pm – 5:15pm
5:00pm – 6:15pm
This venue has a Quiet Room.
This program has loud and/or complex sounds.
Register
This program is free, but registration is required in order to attend.
REGISTER HERE FOR OCTOBER 20 OR 22
Artist Bio
Angela Vitovec
Angela Vitovec aka Angela Schubot, choreographer, dancer, teacher, movement researcher, bodyworker and mother, works in Tkaronto and Berlin with roots in Peru. Her work proposes to shift away from utilitaristic relationships with plants. Through entering into mutual communications with plant beings, she develops a collaborative body of work in which learning and creating occurs directly from the plants. Following her experimental methods she co-created three main works: the Solo SAMMAL/MOSS (2022), MOSSBELLY (2023) and “YA! (a yarrow choir)” (2024). 2023 Angela changed her artistic name, taking the name of her long-forgotten grandfather who was made aware to her by plants: Vitovec.
Artist Bio
Ann Trépanier
Ann Trépanier (b. 1992, Quebec; she/her, they/them) is a dance artist and maker based between Berlin and Tkaronto. Her work is grounded in collaborative processes, exploring subjective paths of listening, layers of consciousness, and relationships,
human and non-human. Trusting portals of intuition, pleasure-sourcing, and embracing the emerging clumsiness and humor as elements guiding her processes.
She has worked with, for, and alongside a range of makers including Amanda Acorn, Angela Schubot, Bill Coleman, Christine Bonansea, Jennifer Dallas, Meryem Alaoui, Naishi Wang and Theatre Thikwa.
Ann joined the Toronto Dance Community Love-In (2018-2022) as one of their Co-Artistic Directors. She is a graduate from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
Artist Bio
Kate Nankervis
Kate Nankervis is a dance artist. Her projects take forms of collaboration, artistic research, performance, and exhibition where dance is intertwined with an embodiment of care, integrated lived experiences are centred, and relationships and inspirations with nature are collaborative guides.
Her work hopes to create experiences vital to physical and mental health, community and placemaking through dance. Kate performs in MOSSBELLY choreography by Angela Vitovec at the Toronto Biennale of Art.
Kate is a recipient of the Danceweb Scholarship at ImpulsTanz, Vienna (2019), an OAC’s Chalmers Fellowship in dance curation (2016), a UNESCO Performing Arts Award (2008) and is supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts on various projects. Kate lives in Tkaranto with roots in South Porcupine, Northern Ontario.
Artist Bio
Suvi Kemppainen
Suvi Kemppainen is an internationally working choreographer, dancer, performer and performance maker. Suvi’s artistic work is deeply embedded in their movement and performance practice around embodied knowledge and fantastic psychopoetic dance. Suvi Kemppainen finds political value in the ephemeral nature of dance and is currently working with reframing spectacle and immaterial ownership. Beside stage works, Suvi actively teaches and facilitates workshops.
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