The Department of Dance Presents
dance innovations
Fierce – Powerful new works by the next generation of dance makers
Artistic Director Julia Sasso & Performance Course Director Freya Bjorg Olafson
Stage Manager York Dance alumna Kiera Shaw
PERFORMANCES Nov 21-23
Program A – 6:30 pm
Program B – 7:45 pm
Program C – 9pm
Admission:
$18 per program
($12 advance purchase until Sun. Nov. 18)
Box Office: 416. 736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
We are excited to bring you a new tradition to celebrate the end of a semester, and another year. The first ever “Winters Frolic” at Winters College, with a theme of “Havana Nights”! A formal dinner party event where Cuban-inspired dinner and drinks will be served along with exciting performances by both musicians and dancers. We will be raffling away fantastic prizes, with all proceeds going towards our Winters College student scholarships and funds. Follow us on Instagram: @WintersCollege for a sneak peek of the big day and the prizes we will be raffling off!
York Dance Ensemble: abunDance
The Department of Dance Showcase
Featuring the York Dance Ensemble
Artistic Director: Susan Lee
abunDance -Delicious dances by seasoned artists
Admission: $18 | $12 advance purchase until Sunday, Feb. 12
Box Office: 416.736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
Photo by Craig Chambers. Dancer: Kezia Mullings (YDE 2015)
The Department of Dance presents the DIP – Dance Independent Project – Choreographing Indigeneity
Choreographing Indigeneity explores issues of identity and place through dance with faculty, alumni and graduate students. The event will showcase performances, exhibits and presentations featuring Aria Evans, Syreeta Hector, Troy Twigg and Dance Collection Danse.
Curator: Susan Cash
Production Manager: Jennifer Jimenez
Presentations: 10:00 -11:45 a.m., 2:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Open to the public: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: McLean Performance Studio, 244 Accolade East Building
Maps & Directions
Free Admission
Doug Van Nort with special guest Anne Bourne
In this on going series Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
This first event will feature an electronics and cello duo with Doug Van Nort and 
longtime friend and collaborator, Anne Bourne.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
The Department of Dance presents
Dance Innovations 2019 – the near distance – pathways towards discovery
Dance Innovations 2019 – the near distance – pathways towards discovery features the concise creations of 25 fourth year BFA choreographers performed by students engaged in all levels of York’s programs in Dance. Students and faculty involved in creation, performance, lighting design and production collaborate in the successful realization of Dance Innovations. Series A of the two series program comprises a new creation by Assistant Professor and intermedia artist Freya Björg Olafson for York’s third year Performance class. In harmony with the themes explored elsewhere in the Department’s 2019/20 events, performances and workshops – issues of identity, navigation and acknowledgment – our show title celebrates the certainty that curiosity, open ness and creative engagement lead to imminent and ongoing discovery and transformation.
Artistic Director: Julia Sasso for 4th year choreography course
Director: Freya Björg Olafson for 3rd year Performance course
Production Manager: Jennifer Jimenez
PERFORMANCES Nov 20-22
Series A – 7:00 pm
Series B – 8:30 pm
Admission:
Advanced tickets: $12
After November 20: $18
Box Office: 416. 736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
Dispersion Relation #4: Doug Van Nort with the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
In this on going series Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space. The lab door will remain open, and people are welcome to come in late or leave early during the show. (Please remove shoes before entering!)
The fourth event welcomes a special performance with the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra. Two pieces will explore new modes of composing for attentional strategies that blend Soundpainting conducting, cross-performer shared sound processing, interactive spatialization and lighting.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
Music to Play in the Dark #1
In this on going series Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space. The lab door will remain open, and people are welcome to come in late or leave early during the show. (Please remove shoes before entering!)
An immersive, spatial audio-haptic concert in total darkness for the Winter Solstice!
This concert will feature existing pieces by invited composer Darren Copeland and Doug Van Nort that are re-imagined for the 28.2 audio and 56-channel haptic floor of the DisPerSion Lab. It will also include a new piece by lab member Rory Hoy created for this event.
Copeland’s piece will feature a small amount of light in order to see his performative gesture-based spatializations sound. Van Nort’s piece, originally composed in 2012, will be the first full use of the haptic floor that he has created over the past few years. Hoy’s piece will be a new construction created in the space leading up to the event.
About the guest composer:
Darren Copeland is a Canadian sound artist who has been active since 1985 and lives in the country outside the village of South River (Ontario). His work encompasses multichannel spatialization for live performance, fixed media composition, soundscape composition, radio art and sound installations.
His fixed-media compositions have explored both abstract and referential sound materials. Many of these works are released on the empreintes DIGITALes label and have received mentions from Vancouver New Music, Phonurgia Nova, Luigi Russolo, and other competitions.and lighting.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
Dispersion Relation #5: Doug Van Nort with guest Michael Palumbo
In this on going series Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space. The lab door will remain open, and people are welcome to come in late or leave early during the show. (Please remove shoes before entering!)
The fifth event welcomes special guest Michael Palumbo.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
York Dance Ensemble: Language of Landscape (investigating movement, meaning and environment)
The Department of Dance Showcase
Featuring the York Dance Ensemble
Artistic Director: Susan Lee
CHOREOGRAPHY BY
Faculty member: Susan Lee
MFA candidates: Emilio Colaillo and Raine Kearns
York Alumna: Nina Milanovski
4th Year BFA student: Sophie Goyette- Hamels
February 12-14, 2020
Location: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre
Time: 7:30 PM
Admission: $18 | $12 advance purchase until Sunday, Feb. 9
Box Office: 416.736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
York Dances: Luminous Surroundings
Luminous Surroundings features exciting new choreography of 24 up-and-coming third year choreographers.
Artistic Director: Tracey Norman
Luminous Surroundings presents 24 original works in two 60-minute programs:
Dusk (Series A) – 7:00 pm
Dawn (Series B) – 8:30 pm
SERIES A
1) Katherine Romard – Reece Caldwell, Sydney Cobham, Emily Williams, Jadra Hannam
2 ) Jessica Vilneff – Blythe Russel, Jordan Gamble, Zoe Harrington
3) Alesha Bishop – Emma Gray Lamont, Sophie Goyette-Hamels, Emily Bernasiewicz, Cecilia Arva, Isabella French
4) Alyssa Passero – Alyssa Nunziato, Bridget D’Orsogna, Taylor Zeller
5) Paige deCastro – Zoe Harrington, Taylor Hooey, Olivia Burling, Blythe Russel, Derek Souvannavong
6) Madeline Feist – Ana Kapassaircs, Phoebe Herrington, Isabella Fortino, Kerry Halpin, Isabella French
7) Jasmine Almaguer Sheldrick – Reece Caldwell, Emily Williams
8) Jenna Begon – Kenyatta Brown, Sara Lopez, Jerry Bonkowski, Abbey Richens
9) Megan Millar – Olga Soukov, Rowan Labelle, Martina Levi, Hanna Pople
10) Isabella Fortino – Erica Coccia-Glowacki, Isabella Boaretto
11) Chantal Thibodeau – Daniel Souvannavong, Jessica Gindli, Leslie Woo, Talia Cooper, Emily Duckett, Jerry Bonkowski, Kerry Halpin
12) Jopang Simakajornboon – Alesha Bishop, Olivia Burling, Alyssa Passero
SERIES B
1) Alyssa Nunziato – Emily Weaver, Katherine Romard, Mackenzie Grantham, Allison Kingsbury, Emma Gray Lamont
2) Mackenzie Link – Isabella Boaretto, Celina Ferrar, Hollie Sargeant, Erica Coccia-Glowacki
3) Morgan Stasiewicz – Sophie Goyette-Hamels, Daniel Souvannavong, Bridget D’Orsogna
4) Jaymee Turner – Isabella Fortino, Talia Cooper, Emily Duckett, Mackenzie Grantham, Martina Levi
5) Jordan Gamble – Emma Gray Lamont, Abbey Richens
6) Derek Souvannavong – Jadra Hannam, Paige deCastro, Katherine Romard, Hannah Kimbell, Leslie Woo
7) Hannah Kimbell – Emily Weaver, Teagan Ariss, Sophie Goyette-Hamels, Eliza Pinney, Hannah Raymond, Kerry Halpin
8) Mikayla Alcombrack – Abbey Richens, Mackenzie Grantham, Phoebe Herrington
9) Bridget D’Orsogna – Jadra Hannam, Jasmine Almaguer Sheldrick
10) Teagan Ariss – Jenna Begon, Kenyatta Brown, Talia Cooper, Amy Williams
11) Carly MacDougall – Olivia Burling, Petra Bahlman, Emily Duckett
12) Allison Kingsbury – Reece Caldwell, Celina Ferrar, Hollie Sargeant
Admission is $10 for each program.
March 25 – 26, 2020
McLean Performance Studio (244 Accolade East Building)
Dispersion Relation X…where X = you
Dispersion specializes in carving out a virtual space of community, allowing for remote connections of listening and sounding.
To this end, the Dispersion Relation series continues over the Zoom teleconferencing platform. Doug Van Nort will perform each week on Zoom. Please join him and fellow collaborators for a truly unique musical experience.
Event Information
Saturday, April 4, 2020
6:00pm-7:00pm
Zoom Event Link
The April 4th performance will feature:
Alex Ring – Violin
Maurice Rickard – Guitar + Max/MSP
Erin Corbett – modular synths
Dispersion Relation X
Dispersion specializes in carving out a virtual space of community, allowing for remote connections of listening and sounding.
To this end, the Dispersion Relation series continues over the Zoom teleconferencing platform. Doug Van Nort will perform each week on Zoom. Please join him and fellow collaborators for a truly unique musical experience.
Event Information
Saturday, May 2, 2020
6:00pm-7:00pm
Zoom Event Link
Password: 237478
The May 2nd performance will feature:
Viv Corringham – Voice
Rory Hoy – Processed Bass, drums
Danny Sheahan – Voice
Matt Wellins – Laptop
Doug Van nort – greis/electronics
Electro-Acoustic Orchestra @ Dispersion Relation X Continues!
Dispersion specializes in carving out a virtual space of community, allowing for remote connections of listening and sounding.
The Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (dir. Doug Van Nort) is an ensemble comprised of a mixture of acoustic and electronic performers. It is an emergent sonic organism that evolves through collective attention to all facets of sound, and soundpainting-based real-time composition.
The conducting language used with the group is based on Soundpainting, with modifications and additions by Van Nort for the electro-acoustic context. In the words of the language’s inventor: “The Soundpainter (the composer) standing in front (usually) of the group communicates a series of signs using hand and body gestures indicating specific and/or aleatoric material to be performed by the group. The Soundpainter develops the responses of the performers, moulding and shaping them into the composition then signs another series of gestures, a phrase, and continues in this process of composing the piece.”
The EAO functions as a year-round resident ensemble for the DisPerSion Lab, and also runs as an undergraduate and graduate course during the Fall terms. EAO integrates members from YorkU, the larger Toronto electroacoustic and improvising communities, and the international community of electro/acoustic improvisers via performances over the internet.
Event Information
Saturday, August 22, 2020
6:00pm-7:00pm
Zoom Event Link
More Information: Dispersion Lab Facebook Page
The Department of Dance presents
Dance Innovations 2020: Detail and Distance –
Extraordinary works for extraordinary times.
Series A: Detail
November 25th at 7:00pm LINK
Features new choreographic works from fourth year students.
Series B: Distance
November 26th at 7:00pm LINK
Features new choreographic works from fourth year students.
Series C: Distant Measures
November 27th at 7:00pm LINK
Features third year performance students and the York Dance Ensemble.
Each series will premiere on their respective date shown above and will be available to watch on demand till Friday, December 11, 2020.
Artistic Director: Susan Lee
Course Director: Modesto Amegago
Guest Artist: Don Sinclair
Check out the promo reel for this event here.
