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TDT presents a new performance project led by Affiliate Artist Aisha Sasha John featuring the company ensemble, The Pool. Across three distinct suites, The Pool celebrates the patterns that emerge in a group body as its individual members perform varying qualities and degrees of agency. The first suite is inspired by the movement patterns of groups of animals – pods, herds, schools, shoals. The second suite dances relationality, investigating the border between listening and expressing, hearing and heeding. In the third and final suite, percussion, juxtaposition and reflection create a foundation for the most beautiful breathing.

TDT, in partnership with The Bentway, will premiere a site-specific dance piece that engages with The Bentway’s unique location under the Gardiner Express. This major work is created by a leading international choreographer whose work is understood as a format of speculative fiction that can propose complex and manyfold understandings of body, gender, species, ethnicity, knowledge and history. The project will culminate with 4 public performances in June. More details and artistic team to be announced soon.

Created by Fran Chudnoff in collaboration with multi-media artist Driftnote and fashion designer Angela Cabrera, FACE RIDER builds on the iconography of the hermit, the hog, and the himbo. The performance is a queer indie sleaze swamp dump celebrating gender deviance, glittery resurrection, and the chaotic joy of togetherness. It reimagines the unsettling nature of aspirational imagery through the gloomy melodies of midwest emo, confessional lyrics, and the aesthetics of the unresolvable mundane.