Stop!?
Peggy Baker Dance Projects’ Presence Series
September 27 - October 2 2022
This site-specific work explores our inability to truly experience rest, speaking to this compulsion to keep moving forward - to never feel able to stop. We question where this need comes from - and wonder how much of this seemingly external pressure has actually been internalized. The dancers examine this place of uncertainty, this need for permission, and this impulse to never quite trust our gut. Utilizing laughter as a means of expressing anger, absurdity, discomfort, release, and joy - the dancers embody this overwhelming sense of restlessness as they navigate their external world.
Stop!?
Choreographer: Eilish Shin-Culhane
Dancers: Kendra Epik, Rumi Jeraj, Jessica Mak, Audrianna Martin Del Campo, Audrey Sides, Kaya Tsurumi, Evan Webb
Composer: Aidan McConnell
Dramaturg: Tia Ashley Kushniruk
Commissioned and Presented by Peggy Baker Dance Project’s for their Presence Outdoor Site-Specific Series in Lisgar Park.
This work was generously support by both the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Photography Credit Aidan Tooth