community events

Performance projects with community participants were always taken on with serious and joyful intent, and I know from the responses of the participants that they have felt vivified by the creative and physical exertion, and profoundly moved by the impact of aligning themselves with the form and content of a choreographic work. Each of these projects took the participants into the heart of a choreographic structure and called upon each individual to enter fully into the realm of attention, specificity, and embodiment that is a dancer’s world. Through this highly charged personal experience, these volunteer performers — and the friends, family, neighbours and colleagues who witnessed them in performance — invariably deepened their appreciation for their own creative capacity and for the potency of art. - Peggy Baker