On Saturday February 14th, 2009
Elizabeth Dawn Snell and Jason Vanstone will be special guests is this great new show with the parahumans.
My Mind Is Going is the latest production by The Parahumans, conceived and directed by Artistic Director – Dave Wilson. The show combines dance, theatre, poetry, film and expressionistic drawings, featuring 10 dancers and actors and 3 musicians.
The 60 stark and expressionistic drawings of human forms by Bogos Kalemkarian introduces the show. Dave Wilson’s dance film Pressing Home, shot in industrial Leeds (UK) continues to indicate the need of the mind to roam to territories unknown.
Act 1: Wandering Mind, includes several pieces of text and performance written and directed by Dave Wilson with additional material from Muriel Stuart. Plato and his three female students travel time and space to uncover ‘The Good’, often stumbling on the pain and suffering of humankind. Plato, now resident in Toronto, shows a keenness to expand his Neo-Academy into the Golden Horseshoe area. Dance of Death links the Bolshevik Revolution with Ballet and I Want To Make A Dance With A Film Behind Me (Toronto Premiere), explores the need of the unrestrained ego to increasingly manifest more of itself. Stuart’s The Seed Shop and Interiors are presented as World Premieres.
Act 2: Still Minds Are Receptive, presents a counterpoint to the soft-spoken of monkey mind, that cannot stop chattering. This Zen-like section is a unique collaboration of improvised, in the moment dance, lighting and live music. The 33-37 minute work draws subtle strength from the ambient-rhythmic electronic score of The Parahumans Band. The strong dancers’ ensemble includes 8 emerging dance artists from Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa.
Artistic Director: Dave Wilson
Actors: Sharmila Dey, Katie Murphy, Zita Nyarady, Avi Phillips
Dancers: Penny Chivas, Vanessa Kimmons, Sarah McQueston, Katie Murphy, Liisa Murray, Kate Nankervis, Zita Nyarady, Cara Spooner
The Parahumans Band: Mike Lobel, Avi Phillips, David Stein
Lighting Designer: Patrick Brennan; Costumes: Pat Mohan; Visual Art: Bogos Kalemkarian
MY MIND IS GOING – THE PARAHUMANS
WHERE: Winchester Street Theatre, 80, Winchester Street, Toronto
WHEN: February 12/13/14 – 8pm; February 15 – 2pm (pwyc), 8pm
COST: $16; Students, Seniors, CADA – $12
INFO/RESERVATIONS: dance@mcmaster.ca; (416) 588-9452
