Citadel Dance Mix 2019

Presented by Citadel + Compagnie through Bright Nights Performing Arts series, this second seasonal triple bill features some of Toronto’s most dynamic and daring choreographers.

Choreographers: Nova Bhattacharya, Syreeta Hector, Christianne Ullmark
November 27-30, December 4-7, 2019

Red & Yellow

Choreographer: Nova Bhattacharya

Dancers:  Michael Caldwell, Luke Garwood, Daniel Gomez, Sahara Morimoto, Kaitlin Standeven.
Lighting designer: Simon Rossiter.
Score: Santosh Naidu & Ian DeSouza

Bhattacharya’s Red & Yellow is a meditation on finding solitude inside the multitudes. Originally created for Dancemakers in 2011, C+C is thrilled to be remounting this visually stunning quintet that is a poetic, metaphoric and humane expression of body and spirit.

Black Ballerina

Choreographer: Syreeta Hector
Dancer: Syreeta Hector
Movement Dramaturge: Seika Boye
Sound designer: Zarnoosh Bilimoria
Set designer: Wesley McKenzie

Based on Hector’s relationship to race, and her experiences in classical ballet, Black Ballerina is a powerful exploration of the nuances within one’s identity, and the unconscious ways that we all try to fit in. Performed by Hector, Black Ballerina brings an unbridled energy to this triple bill.

close encounters in the fifth dimension
World premiere

Choreographer: Christianne Ullmark
Dancers: TBA
Costume designer: Valerie Calam
Sound designer: Christianne Ullmark in collaboration with Johnny Spence.
Set designer: Christianne Ullmark

close encounters in the fifth dimension is a meditative experiment of arrivals and departures, and of meeting the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ somewhere in the middle.