Polishing the Chain: choreographic approaches in Talking Treaties Workshop
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Partners:
Producer: Jumblies Theatre
Producing Partners: First Story Toronto, Nagamo Collective
Venue Partner: Historic Fort York
Facilitators: Ange Loft and Lilia Leon
Musical Accompaniment: Brandon Valdivia
Workshop - 7 to 8pm
Performance - 8 to 8:15pm
Workshop Description
Talking Treaties is a 3-years Jumblies project, in partnership with First Story Toronto, lead by Ange Loft with Victoria Freeman, exploring and expressing the past present and future implications of Toronto’s Treaty history. Talking Treaties began with oral history interviews, developed through many creative response workshops, and will culminate in a spectacle, installation and performance at Historic Fort York’s Indigenous Arts Festival on June 23 and 25, 2017. Participants in this workshop will be guided through improvisational movement explorations inspired by Talking Treaties audio text, words and images. Following the workshop, participants will share a short performance of what was generated. No training required, all ages and abilities welcome.
Talking Treaties is a central element of Jumblies’ Touching Ground Festival: six weeks of sharing new works on a common theme of Toronto Indigenous and layered histories and contemporary voices and implications. For more info. go to www.touchinggroundfestival.ca or [email protected]
Ange Loft is Associate Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre, multi-disciplinary artist and performer from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. Ange is an ardent collaborator, arts advocate and amateur historian available for speaking engagements and hands on workshops. She specializes in and facilitates interdisciplinary creation, arts based research, oral history, outdoor performance, community art design, wearable sculpture and project planning. Ange is also a Juno and Polaris nominated vocalist with YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN.
Lilia Leon is a Mexican-Canadian with Mestizo heritage, with a versatile career as a dancer, actor, choreographer and arts educator. She has collaborated with Indigenous, Canadian and Latin American artists, who have left an imprint in her artistic practice. Some performance highlights include Penny Couchie’s When will you Rage?(2013); Carlos Rivera’s I’m not the Indian you have in Mind (2012); And Aluna Theatre’s Dora-nominated Nohayquiensepa (2010), choreography byOlga Barrios. She believes in the power of art and community to impact social change and has developed strong connections with like-minded companies such as Aluna Theatre, b.current and Jumblies Theatre. Lilia holds a BA degree in dance from York University and is a graduate of the Professional Training Program at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
Brandon Valdivia is a composer, percussionist, drummer and flautist. His active projects in Toronto include Not the Wind Not the Flag, Lido Pimienta, Above Top Secret and his solo project Mas Aya. He has collaborated with Clay and Paper Theatre, MT Space, Red Snow Collective and Aluna Theatre.
Julia Hune-Brown is a community engaged theatre artist and educator. She works with diverse communities facilitating movement and theatre workshops here in Toronto and internationally. She most recently choreographed for Diana Tso's new play Spring Moon a intergenerational theatre piece working with seniors and teens in the Chinese Canadian community she grew up in. Julia is currently a lead artist-facilitator with Jumblies Theatre and co-director of The AMY Project (artist mentoring youth). Julia holds a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University and a BED in Education focusing on inner city education from OISE University of Toronto
Overall Project Credits
Historian, Co-Writer: Victoria Freeman
Choreographers: Lilia Leon, Brian Solomon
Dance Coordinator, Assistant Choreographer: Julia Hune-Brown (thanks to the Metcalf Foundation)
Musicians/Composers: Melody McKiver, Rosary Spence, Brandon Valdivia
Designers: Sonja Rainey
Assistant Designer: Parker Dirks
Costume Designer/Coordinator: Marianne Alas
Stage Manager: Sasha Tate-Howarth
Assistant Stage Manager: Iehente Foote
Technical Director: Steafan Hannigan
Sound Designer/Technician: Alaska B.
Performers: Jill Carter, Kitsune Soleil, Nikki Shaffeeullah, Jesse Wagabegig, Ashley Riley, Michael Healy
Jumblies Artistic Director/Project Mentor: Ruth Howard
And many other artists, performers and community participants
Photos Liam Coo of Talking Treaties Workshops
Producer: Jumblies Theatre
Producing Partners: First Story Toronto, Nagamo Collective
Venue Partner: Historic Fort York
Facilitators: Ange Loft and Lilia Leon
Musical Accompaniment: Brandon Valdivia
Workshop - 7 to 8pm
Performance - 8 to 8:15pm
Workshop Description
Talking Treaties is a 3-years Jumblies project, in partnership with First Story Toronto, lead by Ange Loft with Victoria Freeman, exploring and expressing the past present and future implications of Toronto’s Treaty history. Talking Treaties began with oral history interviews, developed through many creative response workshops, and will culminate in a spectacle, installation and performance at Historic Fort York’s Indigenous Arts Festival on June 23 and 25, 2017. Participants in this workshop will be guided through improvisational movement explorations inspired by Talking Treaties audio text, words and images. Following the workshop, participants will share a short performance of what was generated. No training required, all ages and abilities welcome.
Talking Treaties is a central element of Jumblies’ Touching Ground Festival: six weeks of sharing new works on a common theme of Toronto Indigenous and layered histories and contemporary voices and implications. For more info. go to www.touchinggroundfestival.ca or [email protected]
Ange Loft is Associate Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre, multi-disciplinary artist and performer from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. Ange is an ardent collaborator, arts advocate and amateur historian available for speaking engagements and hands on workshops. She specializes in and facilitates interdisciplinary creation, arts based research, oral history, outdoor performance, community art design, wearable sculpture and project planning. Ange is also a Juno and Polaris nominated vocalist with YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN.
Lilia Leon is a Mexican-Canadian with Mestizo heritage, with a versatile career as a dancer, actor, choreographer and arts educator. She has collaborated with Indigenous, Canadian and Latin American artists, who have left an imprint in her artistic practice. Some performance highlights include Penny Couchie’s When will you Rage?(2013); Carlos Rivera’s I’m not the Indian you have in Mind (2012); And Aluna Theatre’s Dora-nominated Nohayquiensepa (2010), choreography byOlga Barrios. She believes in the power of art and community to impact social change and has developed strong connections with like-minded companies such as Aluna Theatre, b.current and Jumblies Theatre. Lilia holds a BA degree in dance from York University and is a graduate of the Professional Training Program at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
Brandon Valdivia is a composer, percussionist, drummer and flautist. His active projects in Toronto include Not the Wind Not the Flag, Lido Pimienta, Above Top Secret and his solo project Mas Aya. He has collaborated with Clay and Paper Theatre, MT Space, Red Snow Collective and Aluna Theatre.
Julia Hune-Brown is a community engaged theatre artist and educator. She works with diverse communities facilitating movement and theatre workshops here in Toronto and internationally. She most recently choreographed for Diana Tso's new play Spring Moon a intergenerational theatre piece working with seniors and teens in the Chinese Canadian community she grew up in. Julia is currently a lead artist-facilitator with Jumblies Theatre and co-director of The AMY Project (artist mentoring youth). Julia holds a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University and a BED in Education focusing on inner city education from OISE University of Toronto
Overall Project Credits
Historian, Co-Writer: Victoria Freeman
Choreographers: Lilia Leon, Brian Solomon
Dance Coordinator, Assistant Choreographer: Julia Hune-Brown (thanks to the Metcalf Foundation)
Musicians/Composers: Melody McKiver, Rosary Spence, Brandon Valdivia
Designers: Sonja Rainey
Assistant Designer: Parker Dirks
Costume Designer/Coordinator: Marianne Alas
Stage Manager: Sasha Tate-Howarth
Assistant Stage Manager: Iehente Foote
Technical Director: Steafan Hannigan
Sound Designer/Technician: Alaska B.
Performers: Jill Carter, Kitsune Soleil, Nikki Shaffeeullah, Jesse Wagabegig, Ashley Riley, Michael Healy
Jumblies Artistic Director/Project Mentor: Ruth Howard
And many other artists, performers and community participants
Photos Liam Coo of Talking Treaties Workshops
