très loin is a visual and kinesthetic installation created in collaborative partnership with choreographer Sylvie Bouchard, visual artist Ed Pien, composer Phil Strong with music consultant Laurel MacDonald, dramaturg Anne-Marie Donovan, lighting designer André du Toit and four performers: Sierra Chin Sawdy, Sully Malaeb Proulx, Raelyn Metcalfe and Michael Mortley.
très loin marries dance, visual art and sound to explore childhood trauma, dissociation, roads to recovery and the search for resilience. The piece looks closely at how our mind and body deal with the consequences of trauma, but most importantly, it portrays the incredible strength, courage and perseverance needed to surmount these experiences and to reintegrate parts of ourselves that get lost, or split off, when traumatic experiences take place.
très loin is inviting the audiences into a unique and sensory-filled art installation, an ethereal landscape where four divided parts are striving, with all their might, to become whole again.
CREDITS
Choreography: Sylvie Bouchard
Visual Installation: Ed Pien
Composer: Phil Strong
Music Consultant: Laurel MacDonald
Dramaturg: Anne-Marie Donovan
Lighting Design: André du Toit
Costume Design: Cheryl Lalonde
Performers: Sierra Chin Sawdy, Sully Malaeb Proulx, Raelyn Metcalfe and Michael Mortley
Understudy: Pulga Muchochoma
Original Performers: Michael Caldwell, Luke Garwood, Molly Johnson, Benjamin Landsberg, Natasha Poon Woo, Lucy Rupert and Meredith Thompson
Technical Director: Remington North
Associate Technical Director: Geoffrey Armour
Production Manager: Markéta Toková
Stage Manager: Jeff Soucy
Assistant Stage Manager: Patrick Lynn
PARTNERS
A very special thank you to K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, Lindy Green and Sam Chaiton, the SOCAN Foundation and the Théâtre français de Toronto for their support towards the development of très loin.
REPERTOIRE
photos by Dahlia Katz