heart2heart

as part of RISER Project 2020

6 movement-based conversations about the state of the world

Produced by POLITICAL MOVEMENT
Presented as part of Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project

Join POLITICAL MOVEMENT for the intimate and true stories of 12 movement-based artists. Through 6 unscripted duets centred around ‘conversations about the state of the world, heart2heart offers a compassionate dance theatre work that questions how we seek to build relationships across difference, across sameness and across generation. Featuring an ensemble of queer, POC, fat, multilingual, non-binary, differently abled, mothers, teachers, immigrants and all Torontonians, heart2heart marks RISER Project’s first ever programmed dance work.

This project is part of Why Not’s PROVOKE stream of activities. PROVOKE projects are about creating change in our community, city and world.

SHOW DATES

Cancelled due to COVID-19

CAST & CREATIVE

Choreographed by Aria Evans

Created with and performed by:
Tanveer Alam and Angela Sun
Corynne Bisson and Jordan Laffrenier
Michael Caldwell and Liisa Smith
Olivia Croft and Irma Villafuerte
Shay Erlich and Kari Pederson
Karen Kaeja and Sebastian Oreamuno

Dramaturgy by Ximena Huizi
Lighting Design by André du Toit
Produced by POLITICAL MOVEMENT

Funded and Supported by: Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Nightswimming Theatre and Volcano Theatre

For RISER Project 2020:
Production Management by Crystal Lee Chettiar
Publicity by Damien Nelson (Want & Able Arts Consulting)
Produced by Tom Arthur Davis

heart2heart is presented as part RISER Project, a collaborative producing model created by Why Not Theatre with the generous support of RBC Foundation, TD Bank Group, and the Government of Canada. RISER is also supported by Aluna Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, Factory Theatre, fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company, Modern Times Stage Company, Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Nightwood Theatre, Roseneath Theatre, Shaw Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, and The Theatre Centre. The first three years of RISER Project were made possible by Toronto Arts Council’s Open Door program.

ABOUT ARIA EVANS

Aria Evans is a queer, Toronto-based, interdisciplinary, award winning artist who’s practise spans dance, creation, performance and film. She draws on her experiences as a woman of mixed race (Afro-Indigenous, settler) as well as her BFA (2012) to capture meaningful social and cultural themes through her interactive art. With a large-scale vision, collaboration is the departure point to the work that she creates under her company POLITICAL MOVEMENT. Advocating for inclusion and the representation of diversity, she uses her artistic practice to question the ways we can coexist together. www.politicalmovement.ca