'Balancing on the Edge’ is a collaborative production between Thin Edge New Music Collective and A Girl in the Sky Productions presented in association with Harbourfront Centre, which will explore via a deeply integrated relationship between contemporary music and contemporary circus arts, the myriad of ways in which modern humanity is precariously balanced on the edge of survival and evolution. New circus and new music collide in boundary pushing, radical circus performances featuring special guest, DJ P-Love and a cast of 40 local artists.
Program:
Magma (2016)
Circus Artists: Diana Lopez, Rebecca Carney
Music: Nicole Lizée (b.1973) Phonographenlieder (2014)
String quartet, piano, percussion, mezzo soprano, turntablist
Naked to the Sky (2016)
Circus Artist: Louis Barbier
Choreographer: Emmanuel Cyr
Music: Scott Rubin (b.1989) Naked to the Sky (2016)
Piano, percussion, saxophone, violin, electronics
Underneath (2016)
Circus Artist: Emily Hughes
Projections by Evan DeRushie
Music: Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Okho (1989)
Percussion trio
-Intermission-
Ascension (2016)
Circus Artist: Holly Treddenick, Angola Murdoch
Music John Cage (1912-1992) Aria & Fontana Mix (1958/1959)
Soprano, tape
Dramaturgy: Sarah Porter
Excavating Meaning (2016)
Circus artist: Brandy Leary
Music: Nick Storring (b.1981) Amanhã (2016)
Piano, percussion, saxophone, cello, 2 violins
Ghost Bicycle (2016)
Circus Artists: Rebecca Leonard, Natasha Danchenko
Dramaturgy: Sonia Norris
Video: Jason J Brown
Music: David Lang (b.1957) Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1993)
Bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion + 2 antiphonal brake drums