Future Dances

Performance
March 15, 2025Commons @ 401, 401 Richmond Street West12:00 pm to 5:00 pm

ARTISTS
Freya Björg Olafson
Johnny Forever
Laura Taler
Lee Su-Feh
Margaret Dragu
Nova Bhattacharya
Ravyn Wngz
Ronnie Clarke

Dancemakers and FADO Performance Art Centre are teaming up in March 2025 for something we’re calling FUTURE DANCES. This is a speculative choreography project in which 8 artists have been tasked with creating a dance for 50 years into the future. We want to know, now, what dance might look like in 2074. What will happen to dance, choreography and stops in between over the next two generations. This is a thought experiment and a real exercise that considers what the role, purpose, form and potential of dance (as well as performance, choreography, movement, or adjacent and related forms such as performance art) might be at this critical convergence of the climate crisis, violent international conflicts and political upheaval.

Participating artists will present a range of responses—a short performance, written score, film, audio-recording, descriptive essay or something yet imagined.

FUTURE DANCES will be shared in-person at The Commons @ 401 on March 15, and afterwards on both the Dancemakers and FADO websites.

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Performance Yellow

This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?

Top Notes

yellow mandarin, mimosa

Middle Notes

honey, chamomile, salt

Base Notes

narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer