New circus and new music collide in boundary pushing, radical circus performances featuring special guest, DJ P-Love and a cast of 40 local artists!

Our production will feature the premiere of six collaborative works interpreting what it means to be ‘balancing on the edge’ through innovative new music and new circus performances. Featured circus artists include Rebecca Devi Leonard, Natasha Danchenko, Brandy Leary, Holly Treddenick, Angola Murdoch-Ladder, Diana Lopez, Rebecca Carney, Emily Hughes, Emmanuel Cyr, and Louis Barbier who will showcase a wide range of circus disciplines ranging from Aerial Rock, Fire and ladder to invented apparatus and object manipulation. Our musical programme includes works by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, David Lang, and Montreal-based Nicole Lizée, with world premieres by California-based Scott Rubin and Toronto’s own Nick Storring. BOTE will feature lighting design by Joe Pagnan with live projections by Evan DeRushie and video by Jason J Brown. Balancing on the Edge aims to investigate what it means to be pushed to the limit from a wide range of perspectives through a fascinating synthesis of theatre, dance, multi-media, new music and new circus.

BOTE is presented in association with Harbourfront Centre.

Harbourfront Centre NextSteps Dance Series
Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W

November 18th 8pm
November 19th 2pm + 8pm
Ticket Prices: $15,$28,$35
Ticket Prices:$15, $28,$35
(25% discount on groups of 10 or more)*


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*Contact the Harbourfront Centre Box Office for more details: 416-973-4000     
Please visit www.balancingontheedge.com to find out more!

Circus Artists:

• Rebecca Devi Leonard 
• Natasha Danchenko 
• Brandy Leary  
• Holly Treddenick
• Angola Murdoch
•  Diana Lopez
•  Rebecca Carney
•  Emily Hughes
•  Emmanuel Cyr
• Louis Barbier
• Sonia Norris

• Thin Edge New Music Collective
• Rachael Abramoff-viola
• Suhashini Arulanandam-violin
• Adam Campbell-percussion
• Stacie Dunlop-soprano
• Cheryl Duvall-piano
• DJ P-Love
• Andrea Ludwig-mezzo soprano
• Nathan Petitpas-percussion
• Kathryn Ladano-bass clarinet
• Daniel Morphy-percussion
• Chelsea Shanoff-saxophone
• Ilana Waniuk-violin
• Dobrochna Zubek-cello

Lighting Design: Joe Pagnan

Ghost Bicycle Dancers:
Eric Liu, Kelly Mullan, Dana Lerman, Rachel David, Sarah Stark, Jonathan Neville, Hoining Chang, Emma De Bono,  Meagan Gartlanster

Artistic Directors/Curators: Cheryl Duvall, Ilana Waniuk, Rebecca Leonard

 

Show week is here! When not performing/rehearsing, you can find the BOTE artist family hanging at Boxcar Social! Join us for some amazing coffee, wine, craft beer and bourbon!

Programme:

Magma (2016) 
Circus Artists: Diana Lopez, Rebecca Carney
Music: Nicole Lizée (b.1973)  Phonographenlieder (2014)
String quartet, piano, percussion, voice, turntablist

Naked to the Sky (2016)
Circus Artists: Manuel Cyr, Louis Barbier
Music: Scott Rubin (b.1989) Naked to the Sky (2016)
Piano, percussion, saxophone, violin, electronics

Underneath (2016)
Circus Artist: Emily Hughes
Projections by Evan DeRushie
Music: Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Okho (1989)
Percussion trio
 

-Intermission-

Ascension (2016)
Circus Artists: Holly Treddenick, Angola Murdoch
Soprano-Stacie Dunlop 
Music John Cage (1912-1992) Aria & Fontana Mix (1958/1959)
Soprano + tape
 

Excavating Meaning (2016)
Circus artist: Brandy Leary
Music: Nick Storring (b.1981) Amanhã (2016)
Piano, percussion, saxophone, cello, 2 violins
 

Ghost Bicycle (2016)
Circus Artist: Rebecca Leonard, Natasha Danchenko
Jason J Brown-video
Music: David Lang (b.1957) Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1993)
Bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion + 2 antiphonal brake drums

 

Free Sneak Preview- Nuit Blanche Toronto
October 1st, 7pm-7am
Collective Space, 221 Sterling Rd. Unit #5