princess productions presents
In Tune: made in canada/fait au canada
April 2nd, 3rd & 4th at 8pm

Featuring new choreographies by Susie Burpee and Jolene Bailie
Photography Exhibition by Ömer K. Yükseker

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Thursday, April 2nd
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Yvonne Ng’s princess productions proudly presents In Tune: made in canada/fait au canada, an evening of both world and Toronto premieres from the compelling and original Susie Burpee (Toronto) and the inventive Jolene Bailie (Winnipeg).

Now in it’s sixth season, d:mic/fac is a bi-annual festival of contemporary Canadian dance pairing emerging and established artists. It is a noted platform for nurturing new choreographic talent through a mentoring experience, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary collaboration by hosting a venue for visual artists, this time with photographer Omer Yükseker. The second instalment, evanescence: made in canada/fait au canada, features works by Holly Small (Toronto) and Freya Olafson (Winnipeg), and runs April 9-11, 2009.

Reinvention is the driving force behind Susie Burpee's world premiere solo of A Mass Becomes You, inspired by photographic artist Cindy Sherman's Untitled #122 (1983) and Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor. This remarkable work features a woman, wig on backwards, blindly but boldly navigating her way through Mozart’s Requiem and an ever-increasing amount of portable stereo systems. This performance piece not only a showcases Burpee’s unique ability to combine humour and pathos, but it also animates the boom box – a dying piece of technology. The portable stereo systems are performers in their own right, and through radio transmission become the accompanying choir for the unfolding journey of a curiously bewigged character in this extraordinary collision of worlds.

Jolene Bailie will perform her own creation Switchback, a work that she has been refining re-visiting and performing since 2006. What began as a deep guttural response to Jolene’s own feelings of confinement within her own life has grown to have a life of its own and has become her signature work.  Using the life cycle and primal instincts such as hunting and guarding as the starting point, Switchback is an animalistic and highly physical work, where muscularity, repetition and tension mimic the demands and cyclical reality environment plays on a species.

Special Ticket Information!
All advance sales are entered into a draw to win ticket prizes

Double Bill:
$40 advance ticket package for two d:mic/fac shows
In Tune (April 2-4) & evanescence (April 9-11)

$25 at the door (cash only)

Group Rates:
$10 student tickets / minimum 6 people
$20 adult tickets / minimum 6 people
(Contact the box office to reserve your group)

Box Office, Reservations & Information:
(416) 533.8577 : laura@princessproductions.ca