Moonhorse Dance Theatre is proud to present the 3rd Old & Young & Reckless Together honouring celebrated Canadian choreographers Peggy Baker, Anna Blewchamp & Danny Grossman.
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The third edition of Old & Young & Reckless Together features Michael Caldwell interpreting Danny Grossman’s celebrated 1977 work, Curious Schools of Theatrical Dancing; young dance sensation Sahara Morimoto in an excerpt of Peggy Baker’s 1997 work, Sylvan Quartet; and six graduates of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre in Anna Blewchamps’ 1975 classic, The Arrival of All Time.
Danny Grossman’s signature solo was inspired by an 18th century Baroque dance treatise, Venetian ballet master Gregorio Lambranzi’s New and Curious School of Theatrical Dancing: The Classical Illustrated Treatise on Commedia Dell’Arte Performance. The
dance’s central image is of a lone, disfigured soul encased in a circus
ring, forced to perform for an unseen master. The figure may not have
perfect form, but he has an invincible spirit. The hyper-physical solo
is a dramatic and technical tour-de-force.
Says Caldwell, one of Toronto’s busiest and best young dancers: I performed a short excerpt of Curious in
May 2008, for the final performance of The Danny Grossman Company.
Soon after, it was suggested that I learn the entire piece for a future
performance. Since then, Curious has
been in the back of my mind, waiting for the right moment to emerge
from the depths. Of all his works, this is the only solo entirely
focused on disfigurement as an overarching theme. The physical
complexity and exactitude required to perform this work is immense,
sometimes daunting. I have the utmost respect for Danny and his work
and I am so excited to have this opportunity to tackle the entire
ten-minute choreography at Old & Young & Reckless Together.
Sylvan Quartet was created by Peggy Baker
in 1997 to a score for cello, clarinet, and piano by Chan Ka Nin, and
originally conceived as an interactive performance for a solo dancer
with the musicians of Amici. The choreography is being remounted for the
first time ever for another dancer, the superb Sahara Morimoto, and
distilled for these performances simply as a solo dance. Images of the
sylvan world – trees, birds, deer, fox – emerge and dissolve in a lament
for the forests we appear so intent on destroying.
The Arrival of All Time, a masterwork of Canadian modern dance, was the result of a collaboration between choreographer Anna Blewchamp
and the late composer, Ann Southam and was originally co-commissioned
in 1975 by the Festival of Women and the Arts and Dancemakers. It was
recently remounted by The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and O & Y
& R is proud to present these young dancers in their first
professional engagement since finishing their training.
And…join master teacher Michelle Silagy
for a FREE dance class from 7 – 7:45 on Saturday, May 19. Come join us
for a bit of dancing together with your family and friends. Simple
everyday tasks and the joy of holding someone's hand is the basis for
partner dances made together instantly in the delightfully infectious
beat of live music. Call and Response is the order of the day to get you
up and moving in the gorgeous new Citadel Theatre -- an intimate space
made to make you shine bright in the presence of your loved ones – and
you could even end up performing with for the O & Y & R audience
that evening!
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