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Festival TransAmériques
May 22 to June 5, 2025
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HENDERSON/CASTLE: VOYAGER

AME HENDERSON, JENNIFER CASTLE,
TORONTO DANCE THEATRE

Inspired by the interstellar Voyager planetary probes, 9 dancers and a musician take on the impossible mission of creating perpetual, ever shifting movement. An enigmatic and hypnotic work.

Details

Pursuing new ways of living together, a search initially undertaken in what we are saying, the audacious Ame Henderson is making her fourth visit to the Festival, inviting the audience to enjoy the forms and encounters that can emerge from perpetual non-repeating movement in voyager. An enigmatic and hypnotic work.

1977: The Voyager program launches two spacecraft on a journey through the solar system to explore the giant outer planets. 2014: The Toronto choreographer challenges the dancers of Toronto Dance Theatre and the singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle to transpose the Voyager concept to the stage. Their mission is simple… and impossible – to advance in continuous movement without ever doubling back or repeating a movement . The musician accompanies her long and unique song with improvisation at the piano. The dancers plunge into the intimacy of the body to discover forgotten gestures and secret passages. The spectator is a privileged observer of the expanding birth of the new, witnessing the meaning and poetry of humanity in action.

Credits

COMMISSIONED AND PRODUCED BY TORONTO DANCE THEATRE AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER HOUSE
CHOREOGRAPHED BY AME HENDERSON
CO-CREATED AND PERFORMED BY ALANA ELMER + MARIE CLAIRE FORTÉ + MAIRI GREIG + CHRISTOPHER HOUSE + YUICHIRO INOUE + PULGA MUCHOCHOMA + JARRETT SIDDALL + KAITLIN STANDEVEN + NAISHI WANG
MUSIC JENNIFER CASTLE
LIGHTING DESIGN KIMBERLY PURTELL
COSTUME AND SET DESIGN BOJANA STANCIC
CRITICAL EYE JEANINE DURNING
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR ROSEMARY JAMES

WRITTEN BY FABIENNE CABADO
TRANSLATED BY NEIL KROETSCH

PREMIERED AT WINCHESTER STREET THEATRE, TORONTO, FEBRUARY 20, 2014

 

AME HENDERSON (Toronto)

Collective Action and Free Will
Obsessed by the intimacy and the limits of the body, the Toronto artist Ame Henderson questions the function of performance and the role of the spectator in atypical works presented by her company Public Recordings.

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JENNIFER CASTLE (Toronto)

Songs as Shifting Shapes
The singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist Jennifer Castle is a rising star on the Canadian music scene. She has collaborated with a number of musicians and bands, composed a film score and released three solo albums.

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TORONTO DANCE THEATRE (Toronto)

Virtuosity and Innovation
Renowned for its virtuoso, nuanced dancers and its distinctive aesthetics, since 1994 Toronto Dance Theatre has also established a reputation for bold, inventive stagings by artistic director Christopher House, who has more than sixty choreographies to his credit.

Full biography