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Up Next features a rotation of cutting edge works shaping dance for tomorrow. See a fresh new Afro Latin Jazz commission. Explore how blindness is enhancing the perception of dance. Celebrate next generation champions of Indigenous Jingle Dress. Meet a vital force in Sydney’s street and club dance scene. Let your curiosity lead you through this finale to the festival and discover what’s Up Next.
How it works:
With timed entry tickets, you control your experience - whether you stay for one work or the entire show. Enter at your selected time, move through the space, take photos with your friends, and enjoy a cutting edge selection of dance performances. The giant countdown clock on the wall will let you know what’s Up Next!
Entry times:
Saturday Oct 25 at 7PM, 8PM, 9PM
Sunday Oct 26 at 2PM, 3PM, 4PM
Tickets for Up Next are on a pay-what-you-wish sliding scale.
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Running Time 45 minutes
Featuring performances by...
FFDN Scholar-in-Residence and Artist-in-Residence dive into the relationship between blindness and dance. Following months of collaboration and research, Esie Mensah will perform a solo accompanied by Devon Healey’s Immersive Descriptive Audio which weaves together Mensah’s intentions and physicality with Healey’s experience of the movement through the perceptions of blindness. Immersive Descriptive Audio pulls us immediately into the dancing body, inviting both blind and sighted audiences to understand dance in a new way.
New York-based choreographer Sekou McMiller creates a new Afro Latin Jazz ensemble work for students in Performance Dance at The Creative School of Toronto Metropolitan University, the most intensive and comprehensive program of its kind in Canada.
On September 27th, Fall for Dance North will present Tkaranto Open III, a powwow-style competition featuring Old Style and Contemporary Indigenous Women’s Jingle Dress (Co-presented with Union & TO Live). Champions will return to the festival to showcase their extraordinary artistry with the accompaniment of live music.
Sydney-based street and club dance choreographer and performer Azzam Mohamed will perform GLAD. Azzam Mohamed, also known as Shazam, is a dancer, MC, educator, and interdisciplinary choreographer and performer from Sudan, currently based on Gadigal Land. His dance practice merges street, club, hip hop and traditional African dance from his homeland and neighbouring African countries.