The lively young repertory company of the Department of Dance听is presenting听an engaging collection of contemporary choreography by established and rising dance artists. The show, which opened Thursday,听runs Friday, March 23,听and听Saturday, March 24,听at 7:30pm.

Dancers, Anastasia Feigin and听 Nikolaos Markakis in 'Tangled Rags'. Photograph by David Hou

鈥淚 feel the members of the 91亚色 Dance Ensemble are among the hardest-working people at this University,鈥� said YDE鈥檚 artistic and managing director, Professor Holly Small.听 鈥淲ith occasional blood, plenty of sweat and not a few tears, the ensemble has achieved a level of excellence of which 91亚色 can rightly be proud.鈥�

The program opens with Suddenly Everyone鈥�, 听a piece that ranges from听highly structured to completely free improvisation. It was created collaboratively, with the YDE providing the movement and music, and Small contributing structure and direction.

Set to a mix of music from the films Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppins, 91亚色 dance Professor Darcey Callison鈥檚 Down The Road takes inspiration and physicality from the rabbit holes and yellow brick roads encountered in听life.

Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a surprising, demanding trio choreographed and performed by YDE members Yvon Allard, Miles Gosse and Nikolaos Markakis.

Undergraduate student Anne Goad鈥檚 It鈥檚 Just What You Do is a duet about true love, inspired by the choreographer鈥檚 grandparents and their 69 years of marriage.

Shae Zukiwsky, a PhD candidate in dance, joins the YDE in the performance of his new piece for large ensemble, Resistance. Through the work, he explores the concept of being an outsider and how he could move from within that 鈥� seeing as he can鈥檛 seem to move from it.

91亚色 dance student Tracy Day in Small's 'Tangled Dances'

The program culminates with Small鈥檚 Tangled Rags, a suite of three tender, soulful dances that the choreographer has dedicated to her father. The work is set to Three Rags, a composition by the late Canadian composer James Tenney, who taught in 91亚色鈥檚 music department, in a recording by pianist and 91亚色 music professor Casey Sokol.

Tickets for the YDE show are $20 each, or $10 for students and seniors. Tickets are听available by calling 416-736-5888, visiting the Fine Arts Box Office, or at the door.

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Graduate students Shannon Roberts, Nancy听Latoszewski Greyeyes and Ilse Gudi帽o, candidates in 91亚色鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in choreography and dance dramaturgy, premiere new choreographies for ensembles in Temenos. The show, performed by professional and pre-professional dancers, runs Feb.听15 to 17 in the Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre at听the Keele campus.

Shannon Roberts. Photo by听David Hou

The Greek word temenos refers to a piece of land cut off from common use, often dedicated as a place for worship. Historically, the proscenium stage has been regarded as a space reserved for particular users and dedicated to expressing the meanings that infuse our bodies and relationships.

As well as addressing the concept of the stage as a special site, the three emerging choreographers build on the idea of the dancing body itself as temenos 鈥� simultaneously separated from society鈥檚 imposed meanings, and infused with individual sources of meaning for each artist.

鈥淭heir dances focus on navigating the proscenium stage as a site for researching the body鈥檚 memories and cultural constructions,鈥� said Professor Darcey Callison, the production鈥檚 artistic director. 鈥淔rom delving into the historical roots of flamenco, to exploring a family narrative of coal miners in Pennsylvania, to challenging the complexity of the male gaze, these choreographers investigate the proscenium theatre as temenos: a theatrical space that frames these works in order to make visible the body as a conduit for memories and social conditions that permeate their choreography.鈥澨�

Fusing modern dance with her athletic background, Shannon Roberts incorporates Bollywood, ballet, jazz, modern, hip hop, figure skating and flying trapeze into her work. Her choreography is inspired by social issues and the people, artwork and cultures she has experienced in her travels around the world.听听听听听听听听听听听听听

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Roberts鈥� work, A Way of Seeing, is a discourse between Edvard Munch鈥檚 painting Woman in Three Stages and writer John Berger鈥檚 influential book Ways of Seeing. Investigating how a woman鈥檚 experience is informed through youth, sexuality and aging, this trio explores a sensual physical language that frames the private experience as public display.

听Ilse Gudi帽o Barthold. Photo by David Hou

In her piece, In the Marrow: A听Crucial Journey, Ilse Gudi帽o Barthold explores the history of flamenco as cultural memory and personal expression. Four dancers and four live musicians bring to the stage this complex journey, from a dance form infused with cultural significance to a movement vocabulary that is both personal and contemporary.

Trained in flamenco dance in Madrid and Seville, Gudi帽o Barthold has been a member of the Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company since 1997 and has performed as a soloist and with other flamenco dancers across Canada and internationally.

In Valley of Coal, Nancy Latoszewski (Greyeyes) tells the story of her grandparents. Both her grandfathers were Pennsylvania coal miners, and her choreography charts memories of the challenges they faced and the personal sacrifices they made. This narrative choreography is Latoszewski鈥檚 way of exploring oral history through her work as a dance artist.

Nancy Latoszewski (Greyeyes). Photo by听David Hou

A former soloist with Feld Ballets NY, Latoszewski has also been a principal dancer with the Cleveland San Jose Ballet and Alberta Ballet. Her work has been performed at Nuit Blanche and by Ballet J枚rgen, and she has also choreographed for film.

The Temenos program concludes with a structured improvisation created by the 91亚色 Dance Ensemble鈥檚 (YDE) artistic director Holly Small in collaboration with the ensemble, and听performed by the 16 dancers and five musicians of the YDE.

For tickets, contact the Box Office at 416-736-5888.

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As part of the residency, the YDE will be presenting an original program that includes the premiere of Suddenly Everyone, a site-specific collaboration created and performed by the YDE dancers and musicians under the direction of choreographer and dance faculty member Holly Small.

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Above: YDE dancers performing Turbulence, choreographed by Shannon Roberts. Photo: David Hou

The YDE will also present 91亚色听dance and concurrent education student听Anne Goad's poignant duet It's just what you do, which will be听performed by a different couple each evening.听Each group of dancers will perform the duet not to the original music, but instead to live improvised music provided by the YDE musicians with听two different musicians performing each evening.

Since September the YDE has been working together every Tuesday and Friday to explore the creation of music and dance. The听residency at the Eleanor Winters Gallery听marks the first public presentation of YDE鈥檚 ongoing collective creation of music and dance.

All of the 30-minute performances are free and open to the public. The gallery is located at 129 Winters听College.

For more information on the YDE and its residency at the gallery, contact Sky Fairchild-Waller, event organizer at Winters College.

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