Tour
Tour is a work in progress that encompasses Mardon + Mitsuhashi's questions around how performers host audiences. This work insists on inviting and disrupting the audience's attention, inviting new ways of seeing the performers', as well as our own bodies in relation to structures we inhabit. In this improvised structure, two performers act as tour guides, leading an audience through the space and making short stops on the way to share their "instantaneous expertise" on the history of objects, their surroundings as well as their own bodies and personal histories. How do the institutions we inhabit every day impose their realities and histories on us? How might we gesture towards other ways of inhabiting them?
Performers: Roberto Soria & Devon Snell (Toronto), Andrea Cownden & Byhn Ho (Vancouver)
Platforms for TOUR’s research and development:
Toronto Dance Theatre’s Emerging Voices, December 2017, mentors: Ame Henderson and Christopher House
Premiere at OFFTA Montreal, May 2019 with performers: Roberto Soria and Devon Snell Recipient of the OFFTA 2019’s Hybridity Grant, an award granted “to an individual artist or group for the outstanding hybridity of their artistic practice”.
Presentation at Dance In Vancouver, November 20, 2019 with performers: Andrea Cownden and Bynh Ho.