We Could Break Performance with Vanessa Godden and James Knott

We Could Break Performance is a podcast hosted by artists Vanessa Godden and James Knott investigating the question: “How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?”

Epi 1: F-F Granados
EpI 2: Archer Pechawis
Epi 3: Erika DeFreitas
Epi 4: Mikiki
Epi 5: Kiera Boult
Epi 6: James Knott, Vanessa Godden, Jordan Beley, Shalon Webber-Heffernan

–AND (2021)

FADO presents two new works by Erika DeFreitas context of –AND (2021), curated and organized by Christof Migone.

Each year the event moves through each word of the 12-word phrase “you and I are water earth fire air of life and death” and activates the word of the year in a myriad of ways. This year the word is ‘and’, consequently the focus is on repetitions, conjunctions, and duos.

Vivência Poética curated by Erika DeFreitas

The curatorial premise of this project required an emerging and an established performance artist to collaborate jointly, and in turn with participants within the space in which they work/present.

Five Holes: Listen!

Five Holes: Listen! presents five unique performance ‘maneuvers’ dealing with the sense of hearing. Five Holes: Listen! is the fourth offering in the multi-year Five Holes performance series.

Gestures curated by Tanya Mars

Reflecting a range of strategies and approaches to performance, this event introduces a fresh, vibrant, and diverse group of local and regional performance artists to Toronto audiences.

Emerging Artists

After a 10-year hiatus, FADO’s Emerging Artists Series is back in 2025!

This years offerings include two projects, curated by Jordan King and Shalon Webber-Heffernan, and introducing our Emerging Artists Series LAB.

Five Holes

Five Holes provides artists and audiences with an opportunity to test their senses as they are now, informed by both history and imagination.

Emerging Artists Series LAB

Questions are asked, methods chosen, and outcomes are not guaranteed. Results vary—from podcasts to public performance experiments, and everything in between.

The 2025 Emerging Artists Series LABists are: Christina Anna Trutiak, James Knott and Vanessa Godden.