Combining the civic rituals of the walking tour and the ribbon-cutting ceremony, this series of performances turns a neighbourhood stroll into a travelling circus, a spectacle through which we may catch a glimpse of an ever-changing city.
Part of the Walk-and-Talk series.
FREE to attend, all welcome.
Join Danceworks’ Co-Executive Artistic Producer and Fellowship Facilitator Dedra McDermott in conversation with inaugural fellow Nickeshia Garrick as she discusses her research on the socio-political, cultural and artistic influences on Black Performance Art from the 1960s to now across Turtle Island.
In FADO’s newest series, we highlight and investigate two foundational gestures of the performance art vocabulary—walking, talking—through performances and discursive interventions that explore their intrinsic mutual imbrication.
Walk with us.
Mark So’s performance explores the nexus of inner and outer worlds through a dual writing/recording practice, taking place in two different cities throughout the month of November (from LA) and during the first week of December (live in Toronto.
Part of the Walk-and-Talk series.
Walk with us.
This, the third scent in the series, is the most important one of all: ARTIST ORANGE. Composed entirely of elements from the orange tree, this scent is the artist AND the art. ARTIST ORANGE performs itself.
How does it do that, you ask?
You wear it, silly (artist).
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Just as a performance artist uses their body as their medium, this is a fragrance composed entirely of the orange tree: fruit, leaves, bark, roots, and flowers. Artist Orange performs itself.
neroli, blood orange
fresh orange juice, petit grain
orange twig, orange seed
