In Tune: made in canada/fait au canada

April 2nd - 8pm
April 3rd - 8pm
April 4th - 8pm

Location: Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis Street, Toronto
Tickets: $22 (Regular Advance), $18 (CADA, Student, Senior), $25 at the door (cash only)
Double Bill: $40 advance ticket package for two d:mic/fac shows, In Tune (April 2-4) & evanescence (April 9-11)
Group Rates (minimum 6 people): $10 student tickets, $20 adult tickets
*All advance sales are entered into a draw to win ticket prizes
416-533-8577
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Yvonne Ng’s princess productions proudly presents In Tune: made in canada/fait au canada, a dynamic program of both world and Toronto premieres from the compellingly original Toronto-based Susie Burpee and the inventively kinetic Winnipeg-based solo performer, Jolene Bailie

Now in its sixth season, the first installment of the bi-annual festival dance: made in canada/fait au canada runs April 2-4, and the following week will feature a new selection of artists in the festival's second installment, evanescence: made in canada/fait au canada.

Reinvention is the driving force behind Susie Burpee's world premiere solo of A Mass Becomes You, inspired by photographic artist Cindy Sherman's Untitled #122 (1983) and Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor. This remarkable work features a woman, wig on backwards, blindly but boldly navigating her way through Mozart’s Requiem and an ever-increasing amount of portable stereo systems. This performance piece not only a showcases Burpee’s unique ability to combine humour and pathos, but it also animates the boom box – a dying piece of technology. The portable stereo systems are performers in their own right, and through radio transmission become the accompanying choir for the unfolding journey of a curiously bewigged character in this extraordinary collision of worlds.

Jolene Bailie will perform Switchback, a solo that she has been refining and performing since 2006, including a 2008 run in New York City. What began as a deep guttural response to Jolene's own feelings of confinement within her life has grown to have a life of its own and has become her signature work. Using the life cycle and primal instincts as the starting point, Switchback is an animalistic and physical work, where muscularity, repetition and tension mimic the demands and cyclical reality the environment plays on a species.

dance: made in canada/fait au canada is a bi-annual festival of contemporary Canadian dance pairing emerging and established artists. It is a noted platform for nurturing new choreographic talent through a mentoring experience, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary collaboration by hosting a venue for visual artists, this time with photographer Ömer Yükseker.