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Program We believe in building & strengthening community, giving back & actively supporting businesses, charities, & events is always a primary focus for us.

Thank you, Guelph Dance, for empowering dance artists to engage and strengthen our community. 4 Supporters Inside 5 Funders, Partners Tickets & Foundations Schedule 6 Message from 8 the Artistic Director 10 In the Studio 14

an Ontario government agency In the Park 15 un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario An agency of the Government of Ontario. Dance Market 18 Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario. On the Stage 24 Youth Moves 25 Workshops 29 Artist Bios

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10:30 – Noon 6:00 pm 8 pm 9 pm Masterclass In the Park In the Studio Reception Suzette KasheDance TORONTO Throwdown Join us to Sherman Lisa Odjig TORONTO Collective toast the schedule TORONTO GYD Studios OURO Collective 19th annual VANCOUVER GYD Studios Guelph 8 pm Young Company Dance of Halifax Dance/ In the Studio Festival! Guelph Youth Dance GYD Studios Throwdown Company HALIFAX/GUELPH Collective TORONTO Robin Young/Lion Followed by a Dance GUELPH Hanlon Creek Park (rain talkback location: Old Quebec GYD Studios Thu June 1 June Thu 2 June Fri St Mall)

Noon 1 pm 8 pm In the Park Dance Market On the Stage See Friday, June A celebration of health Suzette Sherman 2 for lineup and wellbeing with GUELPH Exhibition Park demonstrations by Dreamwalker movement practitioners. Dance Company (rain location: Old TORONTO Quebec St Mall) Creativity Belinda McGuire Picnic TORONTO All-ages creative fun, Followed by a with music, magic and talkback mayhem. River Run Centre Exhibition Park Sat June 3

9:30 – 10:45 am 10:30 – 11:30 am Noon 1 – 2 pm 4 pm Workshop Masterclass In the Park Workshop Youth Moves OURO Approach Suzette Sherman See Friday, June 2 Hoop Dance Seven works performed for Teens GYD Studios for lineup with Lisa Odjig by youth companies Guelph Youth Music Exhibition Park Exhibition from Ontario and Nova Centre (rain location: Park Scotia Old Quebec St Mall) River Run Centre Sun June 4

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Message from the Artistic Director

his year, we are celebrating Canada’s Tincredibly diverse culture with dance from Halifax, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Guelph. Contemporary, street, Indigenous and Chinese dance will all be represented in our events that include On the Stage, In the Park, In the Studio and Youth Moves. This year’s festival highlights the life cycle of birth, growth, death and renewal. You will see that we are nurturing dance artists from various generations and doing our part to keep the Canadian dance ecology healthy and vibrant.

B Belinda McGuire,

Anthem for the Living

6 GuelphDanceFestival2017 Choreographer:Photo: Sharon Jubal B. BattistiMoore hoop dancer Lisa Odjig (In the Park); Throwdown Collective’s three tight and intricate performances (In the Studio); Belinda McGuire’s virtuosic and athletic solo and the exquisite and eloquent Andrea Nann of Dreamwalker Dance Company (both On the Stage); and the numerous youth who will descend Our local focus this year is upon Guelph for the always- on Guelph-based dance icon invigorating Youth Moves, as Suzette Sherman, our artist in well as the performance by residence. Suzette has taught the 40 dancers of the Young a group of dedicated teen Company of Halifax Dance dancers in a masterclass, has led and the Guelph Youth Dance talks and demonstrations at two Company, performing in the area senior centres, is teaching beautiful outdoor spaces three masterclasses for the of Hanlon Creek Park and public during the festival and Exhibition Park. is working with a group of local There’s more: workshops, professional dancers including talkbacks and receptions! her long-time friend and Guelph Dance kicks off the colleague Michele Green summer festival season — so in the creation of new make sure to attend as many choreography that will events as you can! I look forward premiere On the Stage to seeing you at the theatre, on Saturday, June 3. studio and parks. I am also looking forward to Thank you to our tremendous OURO Collective’s unique staff, board and volunteers for blend of contemporary and all the hard work all year long street dance, KasheDance’s for making all this happen! piece that draws on Jamaican reggae and dancehall culture, Catrina von Radecki and two-time world champion Festival Artistic Director

GuelphDanceFestival2017 7 In the Studio Three nights of award-winning choreography from a physically dynamic group in an intimate studio setting.

Wednesday, May 31, 7 pm Thursday, June 1, 8 pm FOLLOWED BY A POST-SHOW TALKBACK Friday, June 2, 8 pm FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION Guelph Youth Dance Studios · 42 Quebec St

Throwdown Collective TORONTO Various Concert PREMIERED AT DANCE: MADE IN CANADA/FAIT AU CANADA 2015 Creation and Performance: Throwdown Collective (Zhenya Cerneacov*, Mairéad Filgate*, Brodie Stevenson*) Various Concert sculpts space and time in a constantly shifting dynamic of action and reaction. With the anticipation of connection, tension builds as recognizable structures fade in and out of visibility and the three performers gradually find points of intersection. What slowly emerges is a highly attuned dance of unsettled interdependency.

MUSIC Joshua Van Tassel

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Ylem (3 Eggs Ago) PREMIERED AT Throwdown Collective gratefully DANCEWORKS 2017 acknowledges the support of the Toronto Choreographer: Lina Cruz Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil Ylem (3 Eggs Ago) displays magical des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Lina realism in a work created for Cruz/Fila 13 Productions, dance: made in canada/fait au canada and DanceWorks in Throwdown Collective by Montreal the creation and production of this work. choreographer Lina Cruz: “In a Thank you also to The School of Cadence marble sphere, as white as milk, Ballet, Heidi Strauss, and Arun Srinivasan dwells a cosmic egg, fragile as silk: for their support and contributions to ‘You can make an omelette from the work. an egg but you can’t make an egg from an omelette…’ ”

PERFORMERS Zhenya Cerneacov*, Mairéad Filgate*, Brodie Stevenson*

MUSIC Philippe Noireaut Ylem (3 Eggs Ago) is a co-production of Throwdown Collective and Lina Cruz/ Fila 13 Productions *Members of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists

B Jeremy Mimnaugh Throwdown GuelphDanceFestival2017 9 In the Park Sifu Robin Young GUELPH Southern Chinese Fut Shan Lion Contemporary dance, Dance YEAR Choreographer: Sifu Robin Young street dance, hoop dancing, and up and Sifu Young leads the audience from dance to dance throughout the coming young dancers, parks with the Southern Chinese Fut set in the beautiful Shan Lion Dance. Traditionally, the landscapes of Guelph’s lion dance is performed at festivals, lovely parks. Chinese New Year, business openings and weddings. It is a colourful, dynamic cultural tradition Friday, June 2, 6 pm that is meant to bestow luck and Hanlon Creek Park fortune on all those in attendance. 505 Kortright Rd W The dancers mimic mythical lion behaviours and emotions through Saturday, June 3, 12 pm physicality, manipulation of the facial expression of the lion and Exhibition Park traditional music. They capture 81 London Rd W ferocity, curiosity, playfulness and Followed by the Dance fear in the telling of short stories of Market and Exhibition Park the lion’s adventures.

Neighbourhood Group’s PERFORMERS Creativity Picnic, 1–4 pm Guelph Jing Mo Kung Fu Club

Sunday, June 4, 12 pm MUSIC Adam Bowman (drum) Exhibition Park Followed by the Hoop Dance Workshop, 1–2 pm

Inclement weather venue: Old Quebec Street Mall 55 Wyndham St N Check guelphdance.ca for status.

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that include “resilient,” “savage” and “blooming,” each short work reflects one of the high-octane adjectives and offers an engaging sample of each creator’s individual aesthetic. This adaptation is created for the large-scale collaboration of some 40 young artists from the two youth companies.

YOCO PERFORMERS Meg Bennett, Kylie Connors, Molly Courish, Kristen Cowan, Ella Duffy, Mia Dufy, Tea Duffy, Phylecia Ferguson, Anais Young Company of Halifax Dance / Guelph Youth Dance Company Grant-Church, Gabrielle Kachan, Bridget Kenny, Julia MacKeigan, Young Company Amelia McGrath, Charley Ramsay, of Halifax Dance / Allison Tedford Guelph Youth Dance GYD PERFORMERS Maggie Bolton, Company HALIFAX/GUELPH Lily Burpee, Rose Burpee, Elizabeth Together We Rise 2016 Choreographers: Jacinte Armstrong, Gibson, Emma Gray Lamont, Rhonda Baker, Cory Bowles. Susanne Chui, Ailsa Haennel, Ben Harvey, Kadyn Sara Coffin (Halifax), Rebecca Lazier (New Kapitain, Esme McBride, Ivy York City), Sharon B. Moore (Toronto), and Muehlbacher, Isabelle Middleton, Lesandra Dodson (Fredericton) Sadye Middleton, Elly Pond, Sophie Sharp, Alice Stubbs, Corinna Together We Rise is an adaptation Shelley, Ellie Stewart, Hannah Teron, of 15 for 15 (2016), originally Kiera Watson, Isobel Whetstone created for Mocean Dance. It is composed of 15 one-minute works CREATIVE DIRECTOR Sara Coffin created by 15 choreographers. REHEARSAL DIRECTION AND CREATIVE Mocean polled the Halifax arts SUPPORT Janet Johnson and Gillian community to come up with single Seaward-Boone words to describe Atlantic Canada’s dance scene. With descriptors SOUND DESIGN Brian Riley

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Lisa Odjig

Lisa Odjig TORONTO Hoop Dance Lisa Odjig, two-time world champion hoop dancer, performs the North American Native Hoop Dance, a storytelling and celebration dance where she spins and twirls through 17 hoops.

PERFORMER Lisa Odjig

MUSIC Little boy singers

KasheDance TORONTO FACING Home: Love and B Stuart Reeves Redemption (EXCERPTS) 2015 Kashe Dance Choreographers: Christopher Walker and Kevin A. Ormsby FACING Home: Love and MUSIC Christian Robinson, Redemption draws from the soundscore edited with a dancehall influences of reggae music, mix, news broadcasts & text by dancehall and Jamaican culture. Danez Smith, Monty Alexander Set to covers of Bob Marley’s Christopher Walker and Kevin A. Ormsby music, the piece explores its global would like to thank dance Immersion influence connection to larger social for supporting the foundational process issues around stigma, misogyny, that gave birth to FACING HOME: Love & Redemption. The full production was homophobia and hope. made possible with support from the University of Wisconsin Foundation, the PERFORMERS Cheryl Chan, Pierre University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Clark, Tereka Tyler Davis, Amansu School, and the University of Wisconsin- Eason, Kevin A. Ormsby, Gabriella Madison Dance Department, the Toronto Parson, Yui Ugai Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council.

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B Jeff Hamada Ouro Collective

PERFORMERS Cristina Bucci, Rina Pellein, Dean Placzek, Maiko Miyauchi, Mark Siller OURO Collective VANCOUVER Pace (EXCERPT) 2015/2016 MUSIC: Samourai by Shurik’n, Digital Choreographers: Cristina Bucci, Rina Lion by James Blake, Ready Set Pellein, Dean Placzek, Maiko Miyauchi, Go by Killer Mike featuring T.I. Mark Siller, Antonio Somera and Wadaiko Matsuriza by Kabuki Working within the themes of Gomen-Jyo human connection/disconnection, Special thanks to the BC Arts Council and and living in a dense urban the Government of British Columbia, Anna environment, PACE is OURO Wyman School of Dance Arts, Spotlight Dance Centre, Jean Okada, Amber Funk Collective’s second creation. PACE Barton, Kristina Lemieux, Jeff Hamada and is a unique hybrid of breaking, to Guelph Dance Festival for having us! waacking, hip hop, popping and contemporary dance which explores each collective member’s personal relationship with anxiety, competition, suppression and isolation.

GuelphDanceFestival2017 13 Schedule Dance Market 1:00–1:10 Georgia Simms, IMAGEO artworks A celebration of health 1:10–1:20 Janet Ragan, Nia Guelph and wellbeing. 1:20–1:30 Yvonne Weiss, Talam57, Bharatanatyam Saturday, June 3, 1 pm 1:30–1:40 Janet Johnson, Gyrokinesis® Exhibition Park, 81 London Rd W 1:40–1:50 Jayelle Lindsay and Lisa GillOrme, Living Yoga & Health

Inclement weather venue: 1:50–2:00 Katie Ewald, Kinetic Pilates and Old Quebec Street Mall Rehabilitation 55 Wyndham St N 2:00–2:10 Janet Lemon Williams, Dance Therapy Check guelphdance.ca. 2:10–2:20 Sarah Jane Burton, Park’n Dance

2:20–2:30 Lindsay Gunn-Ouellette, Friends Creativity of the Floor 1–4 pm Ongoing Monique ten Kortenaar, The Mitzvah Technique Picnic (one-on-one mini sessions) In partnership with Guelph Dance, The Exhibition Park Neighbourhood Group hosts its third annual Creativity Picnic immediately following the In the Park performance. It offers singing, magic, playing and creating. Come celebrate

creativity in the community. B Lydia Summerlee

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On the Stage A shared program of musical and virtuosic contemporary dance.

Saturday, June 3, 8 pm River Run Centre Co-operators Hall 35 Woolwich St

Suzette Sherman GUELPH Falling into Footsteps 2017 Choreographer: Suzette Sherman Footfalls on familiar paths — sometimes matching, sometimes missing, always searching. The seed of this dance came one winter day while walking an icy trail slipping in and out of frozen footprints left by previous travellers. I am intrigued by paths, shared and yet unique and different, in our life journeys. Original music was created for Falling into Footsteps by Adam Bowman, an esteemed local musician and friend. Our close collaboration helped me realize this piece.

PERFORMERS Heather Finn, Julia Garlisi, Megan O’Donnell, Jenna Oxley, Georgia Simms, Kelly Steadman

MUSIC: Adam Bowman Special thanks to Patrick Simms and Ellen Snowball for technical support, and to Adam Bowman and each of my dancers for great inspiration and collaboration. B John Lauener Suzette Sherman

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Dreamwalker Dance Belinda McGuire Dance Company TORONTO Projects MISSISSAUGA, ON / A Crazy Kind of Hope 2013 BROOKLYN, NY Conceived and directed by Sarah Chase Anthem for the Living 2011 In creation with performer Andrea Nann Choreographer: Sharon B. Moore A Crazy Kind of Hope is an intimate Stirring, mysterious and solo performance combining tremendously physical, Moore’s beautifully articulate, hypnotic Anthem for the Living unleashes movement patterns with stories deep layers of McGuire through of hope and heartbreak. The textured and magnetic movement, piece is made in the unique which synthesizes dance, theatre dance-storytelling form of and circus. Partial nudity in this choreographer Sarah Chase who piece. devises movement patterns to “Anthem looks like a Peter provoke private memories and Greenaway movie on fast-forward, personal stories from the exquisite and McGuire seems to play a dozen and eloquent dancer, co-creator/ parts that span centuries and styles. performer, Andrea Nann. In the At one point, she is muttering piece, Nann introduces a few to herself with the mannered simple numbered patterns of gesticulations of a Baroque movement gestures. These patterns courtesan, an effect enhanced by begin to intersect and harmonize, her alabaster face and staccato creating a heightened poetic acting. At another, she looks landscape, where Andrea’s own edgy and modern, shifting into a spoken stories unfold into realms of sequence of athletic splits on the water, flowers, surf, loss, and love. floor.” (Martha Schabas,The Globe MUSIC and Mail) Antoine Bedard, Justin Rutledge PERFORMER Belinda McGuire LIGHTING James Proudfoot MUSIC Alexander Balanescu STAGE MANAGEMENT Jennifer Lee This piece was made thanks to generous Thank you Canada Council for the Arts, support from the Canada Council for the Dance In Vancouver, The Dance Centre, Arts and The Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Harry & Lin Chin Foundation, Theatre Foundation as a part of The Heist Project. Replacement, Soulpepper Theatre, School for the Contemporary Arts Simon Fraser University, Firehall Arts Centre and the Hornby Island Community. Love and gratitude to Andy, Owen, Josie, Richard Nann, Wayne Ngan, Diane Smith, Mia Wood, Mackie Chase, Richard Chase, Beverly Nann, Ken McAteer, Sander Nann, Maiko Bae Yamamoto and Michelle Silagy

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Suzette Sherman GUELPH Three Musical Reflections2017 Choreographer: Sharon B. Moore “Music summons stories from our lives.” — David Earle For me these beautiful pieces suggest the following. To Be Open speaks to the ever-possible uncertainty in relationships. Thread Through Time is an offering to the power and beauty of enduring friendship. As It Is moves from disillusion to renewal. The music for Three Musical Reflections is from acclaimed Canadian musicians Gregory Hoskins (Guelph), Emilyn Stam (Toronto) and the late Oliver Schroer. I am thrilled to have Gregory and Emilyn joining us to perform in the festival.

To Be Open 2014 DANCER / CHOREOGRAPHER: Suzette Sherman MUSIC To Be Open MUSICIAN/COMPOSER Gregory Hoskins

Thread Through Time 2017 DANCERS / CHOREOGRAPHERS B Jubal Battisti Michele Green, Suzette Sherman Belinda McGuire MUSIC: Dusk by Emilyn Stam MUSICIAN: Emilyn Stam Special thanks for exceptional help and COSTUMES: Émilie Hudon technical support to Guelph Dance Festival and Catrina von Redecki, Guelph As It Is 2007 Youth Dance, Dancetheatre David Earle, DANCER / CHOREOGRAPHER Headwaters Racquet Club, Vera Garlisi, Suzette Sherman Rolly Piroutz, and Jim Green; For musical inspiration Gregory Hoskins, Emilyn Stam MUSIC and the late Oliver Schroer; For lifelong The Lord’s Prayer by Oliver Schroer mentorship and never failing guidance MUSICIAN: Emilyn Stam David Earle; For deep enduring friendship COSTUMES: Émilie Hudon Michele Green; And for constant love and support light years beyond the reasonable Glenn Sherman.

GuelphDanceFestival2017 17 Youth Moves Dancers under the age of 19 take the stage by storm with diverse contemporary works. Come see what six Southern Ontario dance schools (plus a visiting company from Halifax) are creating!

Sunday, June 4, 4 pm CSD Dance Company River Run Centre Co‑operators Hall 35 Woolwich St Carousel Dance Company WATERLOO Frenetic Cooling 2016 Choreographer: Allen Kaeja in collaboration with the performers Breaking the barriers of partnering with unpredictability and momentum, Frenetic Cooling propels the architecture of the human body in a physical crossing Carousel of borders combining the spirits of these powerful individuals into a united force. Like molecules in an ever-changing environment, the dancers react and share energy that brings them to a new level.

PERFORMERS Gillian Brook, Hannah Clark, Lucinda Ellis, Naomi Ellis, Amanda Krmpotic, Melanie Kuntze, Caitlin Luening, Rosaleigh Martin, Avery McCorkell, Clara Sheehan

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REHEARSAL ASSISTANT Kate Knox PERFORMERS Teagan Ariss, Hannah Bousfield, Mikayla Clermont, TOURING COMPANY DIRECTOR Kalene Ticknor-Malton Julia Dafoe, Lauren Dafoe, Abby Dietrich, Emily Dietrich, Megan MUSIC Doig, Anastasia Fischer, Maia K solo at til Z duet, Z_M violin Hadden, Lexie Ingoldsby duet, Edgardo Moreno MUSIC Silentium, Arvo Part Thank you to Kalene Ticknor-Malton and Heidi Churchill for the opportunity to With gratitude to Company A for open work with these wonderful dancers. Their minds and open hearts, always. creative spirits, insight, talent & vibrancy have been invaluable to the creation of Dasein Dance Young this work. – Allen Kaeja Company LONDON In a Moment 2017 CSD Dance Company Choreographer: Lacey Smith (from Contemporary School of Dance) WATERLOO “Such a delicious melody has Requiem for the Forgotten 2017 just come into my head, if I but Choreographer: Natasha L. Mansell had a sheet of music paper with me.” Thankfully, someone quickly “There is in every child at every drew a few music lines on the stage a new miracle of vigorous back of a bill of fare and Franz unfolding.” — Erik Erikson (1902– Schubert’s immortal Serenade 1994) was born. It was written upon Through youth to adulthood, we the inspiration of the moment navigate the constant evolution in 1826, after simply reading a of our personality and shedding poem. Endeavouring to create of previous ideals, encountering the movement in the same new experiences that stimulate conditions, this dance is based a better understanding of our on the beauty and grace of each self. Dancers used instinctual note and the spirit of creating In a somatic reflections to explore Moment. this individual growth over PERFORMERS Erin Brereton, Amy time, creating a holistic physical Gras, Rachel Gras, Dharby expression of the intensive Harrison and Allyson Zheng emotions that change can instigate — disconnection, MUSIC Franz Schubert (performed isolation, the sense of losing by Lang Lang) oneself — and the strength we Thank you to the dancers for their have to move along the path of dedication and inspiration this past year honouring the identity we create. and to Miko Sobreira for his creative input and support.

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Dasein Dance

MUSIC Seven League Boots, Zoe Keating EnPointe Development I would love to thank my dancers for all Inc. Young Company of their hard work and dedication to the piece. You all bring me great joy. ST. THOMAS Through Time 2016 Swansea School of Dance Choreographer: Brandy Coghlin TORONTO The Forgotten Vowel 2012 This piece was choreographed Choreographer: Lucy Rupert during a three-week summer ballet program held in London, This collaborative work with the Ontario during August, 2016. dancers builds a bit of quirkiness The piece illustrates an evolution with mistakes, fidgeting and of movement and growth. memory-blanks. With each new The dancers have dedicated cast it takes a new shape. Like the themselves thoughtfully to its forgotten vowel “y” — sometimes it’s expression. a vowel, sometimes a consonant.

PERFORMERS Amy Krosnicki, Abby Johnston, Ella Jakobi, Eadie Quipp, Madison Besley

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YMI Dancing TORONTO Dream 2013 Choreographer: Mairéad Filgate This piece explores the elusive world of dreams and was created by Mairéad Filgate along with the dancers of YMI. Both choreographer and dancers used inspiration from their own dreams to develop material for the piece. It is this investment and passion of

the dancers that makes the pieceSwansea come alive.

PERFORMERS Sophie Archibald, Beatrice Cameron, Zita Campbell, Otis Lau, Maya Middleton, PERFORMERS Marley Acton, Rachel Cadence Parsons, Alaia Rustecki- Bliss, Paige Crawley, Maggie Lopes, Deanna Salgado, Colleen Davey, Elizabeth Domingos, Witzel-Milan Samantha Georgiou, Kyra Lang, Claire MacDonald, Mari MUSIC René Aubry, Jon Brion Middleton, Brooklyn Pocock, Clea YMI Dancing would like to thank Mairéad Sheldrick, Devon Sneyd, Olivia Filgate for working with the dancers to create such a beautiful piece. We’d Tiessen, Claire Younder also like to thank the Guelph Festival for creating this wonderful platform for all MUSIC Palae Fore Memoire by young dancers to come together and Scanner, Infra 4 by Max Richter, perform with one another. Time Zones by OMD Thank you to Swansea School of Dance for the opportunity! Thanks to Courtnae Bowman and the Cadence Bridges Contemporary Ballet group of 2012 with We depend upon the on whom this work was made originally. generosity of many people Thank you to the young dancers who are to bring the Guelph Dance willing and committing to plunging in. Festival to you every year. onate Please join our circle of supporters and make a donation today! Easy online donation at guelphdance.ca or mail a cheque:

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Halifax Dance

challenges, questions, and changes to what is happening The Young Company of in our present-day society are undeniable. Though the musical Halifax Dance HALIFAX, NS Hair: A Medley 2017 was created in the late 60s, we Choreographer: Mary Lou Martin are still struggling with these important and vital questions of Hair: The Musical was created at basic human rights and liberties a time of great civil unrest in the today. Creating this piece allows U.S. There were struggles and us to face these topics in a way profound change in the anti-war that will resonate and challenge a movement, women’s liberation, new generation of artists. gay rights, and freedom of speech. The parallels of these IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

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PERFORMERS Meg Bennett, Kylie Connors, Molly Courish, Kristen Cowan, Ella Duffy, Mia Dufy, Tea Duffy, Phylecia Ferguson, Anais Grant-Church, Gabrielle Kachan, Bridget Kenny, Julia MacKeigan, Amelia McGrath, Charley Ramsay, Allison Tedford

MUSIC: COMPOSER Galt MacDermot, LYRICISTS Gerome Ragni, James Rado We would like to thank Halifax Dance for their continued support of youth training, performance opportunities, and professional aspirations in Atlantic Canada. Mary Lou Martin would like to thank the members of the Young Company for their generosity and dedication during this EnPointe Development creation.

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GuelphDanceFestival2017 23 Workshops Inspired by the performances? Check out these fantastic opportunities to learn from our 2017 Festival artists. OURO Approach Workshop for Teens Sunday, June 4, 9:30–11:00 am Guelph Youth Music Centre 75 Cardigan St · $20 All five members of OURO Collective teach this workshop which begins with each member leading participants in their specific dance style (hip hop, breaking, waacking and contemporary). In the second part of the workshop members of the collective will introduce students to the various choreographic concepts used in the creation of their work. Please bring comfortable B Jeff Hamada shoes. OURO Collective · In the Park Hoop Dance Workshop with Lisa Odjig Masterclasses with Sunday, June 4, 1–2 pm Suzette Sherman Exhibition Park Wednesday, May 31 81 London Rd W · Free 10:30 am – 12 pm Learn and have fun with two-time Followed by an open rehearsal, world hoop dance champion Lisa 12:30–1:30 Odjig, who teaches this workshop Friday, June 2, 10:30 am – 12 pm immediately following her In the Sunday, June 4, 10:30–11:30 am Park performance on Sunday. The Guelph Youth Studios Hoop Dance is a story telling dance 42 Quebec Street · $10 where the hoops create formations, Suzette Sherman’s technique designs and symbols of nature. It’s classes, in the language of David traditionally known as a healing Earle, are open to professional/ dance and a celebration of life advanced dancers. Suzette is our dance. Artist in Residence this year, and we In the event of inclement weather, are able to offer these workshops this workshop will not be held. at a reduced rate with the generous support of the Canada Council.

24 GuelphDanceFestival2017 Workshops Artist Bios Lisa Odjig TORONTO Lisa Odjig, Odawa Ojibwe nation from In the Studio Wikwemikong Manitoulin Island, is a two-time world champion hoop dancer Throwdown Collective TORONTO along with six additional hoop dance Throwdown Collective is a contem- championship titles won throughout porary dance company that supports Canada and United States. Lisa was a the collaborative creative pursuits of semi finalist on Canada’s Got Talent and founders Zhenya Cerneacov, Mairéad was recently filmed in an ELLE Magazine Filgate and Brodie Stevenson. Since video shoot called The Movement in 2008 the collective has been co- New York City. creating physically dynamic work for both stage and the outdoors, including KasheDance TORONTO three site-specific commissions for Dusk KasheDance echoes in a new genealogy Dances that went on to tour throughout of Afro-contemporary dance grounded Ontario and to Quebec and British in creation, research and presentation, Columbia. In 2015 Throwdown Collec- supported by outreach initiatives in tive premiered Various Concert, their community and arts education. Kashe- first work for the stage, at the dance: Dance works are rooted in a technical made in canada/fait au canada Festival style, grounded in human expression, where it received the Audience Choice poly-rhythms and technical virtuosity. Award and subsequently the Dora The company has performed at the Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding National Arts Centre in Ottawa as part Original Choreography. of the Canada Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Moving Inspira- In the Park tions Dance Festival in Winnipeg, Fleck The Guelph Youth Dance Dance Theatre and Jamaica Dance Umbrella, among other venues to Company GUELPH critical acclaim. FACING Home: Love The GYDC was formed in 2008, by Janet and Redemption was voted Top 10 Johnson and Catrina von Radecki as a performance of 2015 in Madison, Wis- means of further celebrating, enhancing consin and has since toured to Jamaica and training young dancers. Now in and New York City. our 9th year, we have some very strong, talented, ambitious and highly creative Kevin A. Ormsby is Artistic Director of dancers who perform together regu- KasheDance and Adjunct Artist at the larly in events such as Hillside Inside Dance Exchange (Washington D.C.). He (Guelph), DanceOntario Weekend is a Canada Council for the Arts’ Victor (Toronto), Art Harvest (London), Car- Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (2014) ousel Dance Centre (Waterloo) and in a recipient and a Toronto Arts Council’s variety of locations in Guelph including Cultural Leaders Lab Fellow (2015). the Guelph Dance Festival. These same He has honed his passion for dance, dancers have worked with some of the advocacy, writing and education while best dancers and choreographers from performing in Canada, the Caribbean across Canada including David Earle and the United States with various (Guelph), Suzette Sherman (Guelph) companies and projects in works by Karen Kaeja (Toronto), Lina Cruz (Mon- Garth Fagan, Marie Josée Chartier, treal), Suzanne Miller (Montreal), Jor- Allison Cummings, Patrick Parson, Ron dana Deveau (Toronto), Anik Bourvrette K. Brown, Menaka Thakkur, Mark Morris (Ottawa), and Kate Hilliard (Toronto). and Bill T. Jones. He also works as the

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Program Manager for Cultural Pluralism compliment their technical training with in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO). valuable performance experience. The Company offers its’ dancers the tremen- Christopher Walker, choreographer, dous opportunity of dancing in works KasheDance, is an Associate Professor created with and for them, by some of of Dance and the Artistic Director of the best choreographers in the country. the First Wave program at the Univer- It is also an important educational tool sity of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also for the promotion of dance to local and a choreographer and dancer with the provincial audiences. National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica, and Co-founder/Artistic Director of NuMoRune Collaborative—an Robin Young GUELPH ensemble of dancers, choreographers, Sifu Robin Young has been involved storytellers and musicians, who come with the Chinese Martial Arts and Fut together under a united artistic vision Shan Lion Dancing since 1968 under to create collaborative works. He is the the late masters Lor King Hung and Chin recipient of numerous scholarships and Fong. He has been teaching Lor’s Hung awards including the New York-Thayer Kuen Kung Fu since 1979 in Toronto, Fellowship, and the GOJ PM Award. A Kitchener, and Guelph, Ontario. He has recipient of the prestigious UW-Mad- demonstrated in Canada, the US, Philip- ison Romnes Fellowship, Mr. Walker was pines Islands and China. Sifu Young has the annual Philip Sherlock Lecturer 2016 been teaching at the Guelph Jing Mo in Kingston, Jamaica. Kung Fu Club in Guelph, Ontario since 1993. OURO Collective VANCOUVER OURO Collective is an eclectic dance On the Stage collective that uses hip-hop, waacking, Dreamwalker Dance Company breaking, popping and contemporary TORONTO dance as the foundation for the creation and production of new work. OURO Sarah Chase, co-creator/director of is united around the common goal of Dreamwalker Dance Company‘s A Crazy pushing the boundaries of how street Kind of Hope, is AD of Astrid Dance. dance-based works are created and Sarah’s work has toured extensively presented. Since their start in the fall of throughout Canada and Europe. She has 2014, OURO has performed at Dancing created commissions for Toronto Dance on the Edge, CypherFest International Theatre, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Street Dance Festival, Vancouver Inter- Robin Poitras & Ron Stewart, Montréal national Dance Festival and for New Danse, and Theatre Replacement. She is Works. They are currently in their third an Associate Artist of the National Arts season and working on their first full- Centre in Ottawa. length work, which will tour to Japan in Andrea Nann, co-creator/performer of July 2017. Dreamwalker Dance Company‘s A Crazy Kind of Hope, is AD of Dreamwalker Young Company of Halifax Dance Dance Company, and creator of The HALIFAX Whole Shebang / The Ontario Shebang. Young Company of Halifax Dance A graduate of York University, Andrea has been creating exceptional pre- was a full-time member of the Danny professional contemporary dance since Grossman Dance Company (1988– 1988 and is a vital first step into the 2005). She choreographs for stage, film world of professional dance for serious and various outdoor sites. young dancers. It was founded to give gifted young artists the opportunity to

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Belinda McGuire at Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers. MISSISSAUGA, ON / BROOKLYN, NY She danced with Saskatchewan Dance Belinda McGuire (dancer, director, Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre for two choreographer) graduated from The decades touring worldwide, Dancethe- Juilliard School (BFA 2006). Through atre David Earle since its inception in Belinda McGuire Dance Projects, she 1997, and many acclaimed independent performs primarily solo work, cho- choreographers. A teacher throughout, reographs and engages in collabora- Suzette is proud to work closely with tion and production. McGuire was David Earle sharing his technique and nominated for the 2013 Dora Award for repertoire with generations of dancers. Outstanding Performance (The Heist Her career includes several film and Project) and has taken part in choreo- television productions. Currently con- graphic residencies at Springboard tinuing teaching and performing she is Danse Montréal, Centre de Création exploring a new creative voice choreo- O Vertigo, Ross Creek Centre for the graphing. Suzette lives happily in the Arts, Éspace Marie Chouinard, ICKam- country with husband Glenn and rescue sterdam, and The Yard. Her choreog- dog Jesse. raphy has been presented across North America. She danced with The Limón Youth Moves Dance Company, Gallim Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers and The Canadian Carousel Dance Company Contemporary Dance Theatre. WATERLOO Carousel Dance Company is a children’s performance group currently with 40 Suzette Sherman GUELPH members ranging in age from 10-17 Michele (Presly) Green, collaborator with years. Dance Company members work Suzette Sherman on Thread Through with faculty and guest choreographers Time, began her professional dance to create and perform dance works career with Winnipeg Contemporary throughout the year. Touring Company Dancers (1971-1973). She co-founded members have had the opportunity Saskatchewan Dance Theatre with to work with guest artists from across husband Jim Green and former teacher Canada including Pulga Muchochoma, Lucia Pavlychenko (1973-1976). In 1980 Allen Kaeja and Ballet Jorgen. The Michele, Jim and their two children company performs locally, nationally moved to Stouffville, Ontario, where she and internationally and has participated opened The DanceCentre successfully in Dance and the Child International teaching until retiring twenty years later. Conferences in Finland, Utah, The Turning her sights to writing, Michele Netherlands, Taiwan and Denmark. This worked for a decade as a core writer non-competitive performance group for the In The Hills magazine. In 2006 has strong commitment and a love of Dance Collection Danse Press published dance. her book David Earle, a Choreographic Biography. It has been an honour to Contemporary School of Dance return to the studio to work on this WATERLOO project for the Guelph Dance Festival The Contemporary School of Dance with long time friend and associate opened in 1997 and has grown to one Suzette Sherman. of the most reputable dance schools in Suzette Sherman was begging for the Kitchener-Waterloo area. The school dance lessons at age 3. It has been a provides dance training to approxi- lifelong journey since. She studied in mately four hundred students in many Chicago and New York then apprenticed different styles of dance. Directed by

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Natasha Mansell (BFA Hons Dance, Lucy Rupert, choreographer of Swansea BSc Hons Psychology), the CSD Dance School of Dance’s The Forgotten Vowel, Company is a group of 40 dancers, is the artistic director of Blue Ceiling ages 9-18, who want to expand their dance and an in-demand freelance knowledge of dance through additional dance and theatre artist known for pas- performance opportunities, including sionate and vulnerable performances. regional arts performances and festivals, She is a regular collaborator with ceremonies, flashmobs and parades. Theatre Rusticle and Fujiwara Dance The Company A dancers are thrilled to Inventions and recently performed with be performing at Guelph Dance again Chartier Danse. this year! YMI Dancing TORONTO Dasein Dance Young Company YMI Dancing is a pre-professional LONDON youth company established in 1991. Its Dasein Dance Young Company is com- mandate is to bring performance dance prised of dancers ages 10–15 who are to the general community. The company enrolled in our Aspirant Ballet Program. has performed for numerous festi- Founded in 2011 in London, Ontario vals, Public Schools, Libraries and for by Artistic Director, Lacey Smith, Dasein charitable and fundraising events. The Dance provides a professional training company has enjoyed the teaching and facility dedicated to the development of choreography of professional dancers young artists in ballet and contemporary such as Julia Aplin, Susie Burpee, dance forms. Our mandate is to provide Meagan O’Shea, Julia Sasso, Mairéad a space for serious young dancers to Filgate and Darryl C. Tracy. YMI Dancing develop their technique and artistry in provides an exciting opportunity for a non-competitive environment that is students to develop technique and to focused on education. We believe the hone their performance skills. art of dance is not simply about the dancer; it is the dancer in relationship to Young Company of Halifax Dance the world, to others and to their history. HALIFAX The Young Company of Halifax Dance En Pointe Development Inc. has has been creating exceptional pre- Young Company ST. THOMAS professional contemporary dance since Brandy Coghlin studied as a profes- 1988 and is a vital first step into the sional student at The National Ballet world of professional dance for serious School of Canada. She received her young dancers. It was founded to give Dance Diploma from Arts Umbrella in gifted young artists the opportunity to Vancouver, BC in 2010. Brandy is also complement their technical training with certified to teach Donna Krasnow’s valuable performance experience. The Conditioning with Imagery Training Company offers its dancers the tremen- for Dancers. Brandy founded EnPointe dous opportunity of dancing in works Development as a independent venture created with and for them, by some of to launch a regional summer ballet the best choreographers in the country. program allowing students ages 9-13 to It is also an important educational tool train, develop technique, and provide for the promotion of dance to local and performance opportunities. Brandy provincial audiences. continues to derive great pleasure and satisfaction bringing the joy of healthy training to her students that provides further inspiration to her as a professional dancer.

28 GuelphDanceFestival2017 Our Thanks

Board of Directors MOVING AHEAD ($50–99) Michelle Miller PRESIDENT Phil Allt, Vera Dyck, Tom Kleinbeernink, Kim Bolton VICE PRESIDENT Robin Sanders, Barbara Sellers, Catrina Marie Zimmerman TREASURER von Radecki, John and Sally Wismer Heather Finn SECRETARY SMALL STEPS FORWARD ($1–49) MEMBERS AT LARGE Ken Beer, Claire Braden, Sharon Brenner, Richard Gorrie, Lynda Walters Kit Clark, Gregory Duckworth, Bruce and Staff/Crew Barbara Finn, Suzanne Grigg, Gareth FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Lind, Julie Lugosi, Rachel McQuail, Laurie Catrina von Radecki Mahon, Janet Morton, Deborah Patterson, OUTREACH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Janet Johnson Patricia Anne Purkis, Rachel Shoup, GENERAL MANAGER Kit Clark Sarah Smith, M. Steadman, Amy Waugh, ASSISTANT TO THE GENERAL MANAGER Anonymous Leslie Fisher MONICA DAVIS SCHOLARSHIP FUND FESTIVAL ASSISTANT Solana Del Bel Belluz James Johnson, Marie Zimmerman INDOOR LIGHTING DESIGN Taras Cymbalisty INDOOR STAGE MANAGER Dorothy Fisher INDOOR ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Leslie Fisher OUTDOOR STAGE MANAGER Amber Sherwood-Robinson OUTDOOR SOUND TECHNICIAN Davian Hart IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII OUTDOOR MC, Daniel Poulin GUELPH YOUTH DANCE VENUE MANAGER Kelly Steadman GRAPHIC DESIGNER Gareth Lind, LINDdesign BOOKKEEPER Anne Monkhouse ACCOUNTANT John Lindsay VIDEOGRAPHERS Daniel Robinson, Emmanual Skretas PHOTOGRAPHER Ashley Renee Photography Donors (May 8, 2016 – May 2, 2017)

LEAPS & BOUNDS ($500+) John M. Lindsay Professional Corporation, Carey Shafir and Sid Brodovsky, Lorne Widmer

HIGH KICKING ($250–499) Dorothy Fisher, Heather Finn, Brigitte Radecki, Anonymous

JUMPING UP ($100–249) Valerie Anderson, Kim Bolton, Catherine Carstairs, Barbara Chamberlain, Jillian Cockburn, David Crespo, Ajay Hable, Kathleen Hyland, Jennifer Mackie, Lisa Prebianca, Schmuck Truck Gourmet Food Truck

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Dance Associate Members Dancers, Lacey Smith, Social Growl, Kate Angela Blumberg, Lisa Emmons/Form Stashko, Tanya Southworth, Stephanie Vigers, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Exhibition Lynda Walters Park Neighbourhood Group, Katie Ewald/ Volunteers (as of May 12, 2017) Kinetic Pilates, Heather Finn, Guelph Youth Lily Burpee, Rose Burpee, Hannah Dance Training Program, Lindsay Gunn/ Caldwell, Peyton Clarke, Tiffany Clarke, From the Healing Well, Leslie Fisher/ Jillian Cockburn, CJ Dopheide, Parami Park’n Dance, Jayelle Lindsay/Living Yoga Epaarachchi, Gina Giammarco, Ashley & Health, Michelle Miller/mimi jewellery, Howie, Steven Jiang, Kaydyn Kapitian, Christine Parker-Reid/Contemporary Elise Kephart, Justina Liu, Jade McCraney, School of Dance, Janet Ragan/NIA, Lynette Isabelle Middleton, Sayde Middleton, Segal, RMT, Georgia Simms/IMAGEO Rianna Morgan, Lindsay Morris, Hannah Artworks, Monique ten Kortenaar/The Murphy, Niav Quintal, Ellie Stewart, Nikki Mitzvah Technique, Janet Lemon Williams Sun, Una Wabinski, Sachitha Wijekoon, Members Lucy Yang Kim Bolton, Bourask-Compagnie de Danse, Special Thanks Naomi Brand, Natalia Bushnik, Heidi Mike Anderson, Ishra Bianco, John Bonnar, Churchill, Dreamwalker Dance Company, Patti Broughton, Sarah Jane Burton, Cinetic DUSSO Danse, Alexandra Elliott, Megan Creations/Sharon B. Moore and David English, Junichi Fukuda, Jason Galeos, Jessie Aasland, Dave Cobb, Caitlin Crete, Justine Garon, Veronique Gaudreau/Atelier Shiatsu, Dainaird, Stacey Dunnigan, David Earle, Jennifer Goodwin, Dana Hafouta, Kelly Katie Ewald, Leslie Fisher, Andrea Gardi, Hajar, Billie Hanne, Maxine Heppner, Sarah Julia Garlisi, Sarah Goldrup, Julia Grady, Hopkin, Danuta Janicka-Mierzwa, Molly Jill Grantmyre, Zac Gribble, Guelph Fab 5, Johnson, Leatt Katzur, Melanie Kloetzel, Judy Harquail, Patti Holmes, Karen Johnson, Richard Lee, Suzanne Liska, Bethany Litner, Dawn Keating, Dana Keller, Ellyn Luis, Belinda McGuire, Katherine Mansfield, Jane Marsland, Charlotte Moore, Meagan Moonhorse Dance Theatre, Alicia Mullikin, O’Donnell, Jenna Oxley, Caitlyn Passchier, Kate Nankervis, Noaatar, Noumenon Dance Ella Pauls, River Run Staff and Volunteers, Ensemble, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Freya Royal Electric, Lynette Segal, Valerie Smith, Olafson, Brandy Ostrosser, OURO Collective, Suzette Sherman, Georgia Simms, Kelly Kia Park, Andrew Pearson/Contemporary Steadman, Ilanna Tamari, Jesse Reimer Dance LA, Andrea Pena, Sebastien Watts, Yvonne Weiss, Marty Williams and Provencher, Timothy Rubel, Lauren Runions, the DGBA, Moksha Yoga Guelph, Paola’s Lucy Rupert, Monica Shah, Suzette Sherman, Fine Cheeses, Royal Electric Helen Simard, Simcoe Contemporary IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

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