Solo Creations by TDT company dancers
Music Direction and Curation by New Chance
Inspired by the seven classical planets—ancient “wandering stars” that have sparked human curiosity and imagination for centuries—this new TDT production brings together 7 company dancers with 7 electronic musicians in a series of newly created solos for TDT’s mainstage.
Through expansive imagery of the planets and the otherworldly textures of electronic music, each dancer and musician will develop an individual work through a process of cross-disciplinary exchange, shaped by a shared spirit of exploration, play and discovery. Movement and sound orbit around one another, creating unexpected encounters between bodies, rhythms and sonic worlds.
Eccentric, euphoric and sometimes strange, Wandering Star unfolds as a constellation of singular worlds. Shimmering beside one another: autonomous yet connected, held together by invisible forces, shared frequencies and the pull of something just beyond reach. Bringing Toronto’s dance and electronic music communities into the same orbit, Wandering Star becomes a space for collective dreaming—a gathering of bodies, signals, rhythms and imaginations, constellating and re-constellating in the dark.
About New Chance
New Chance is the musical moniker of Toronto artist Victoria Cheong.
As an active member of Toronto’s avant music scene, she has expressed her multitudes, including working as a programmer and community organizer, as a producer and composer, as the head of a boutique record label, as a DJ and organizer of queer parties, and as an artistic collaborator with a long time practice in contemporary dance.
Recent collaborations and commissions include performing the music in Justine Chambers’ and Laurie Young’s, One Hundred More, composing for Aisha Sasha John’s, Diana Ross Dream, producing an EP with Picastro’s Liz Hysen and a collaboration with reggae legend Willi Williams. She is currently working with Jenn Goodwin on her multidisciplinary choreographic work, The Changeover. She has also composed for film and video (recently Seth Scriver’s animated feature, Endless Cookie) and her voice and songwriting have appeared on records by Lee Paradise, L CON, Lido Pimienta, Isla Craig, Chandra, Jennifer Castle and more.
New Chance’s most recent release is the full-length concept album, A Rock Unsteady (2025, We Are Time).
She is also a practicing astrologer.