TDT is excited to support a new experimental work by Toronto / Berlin artist Angela Vitovec’s exploration of plant-based intelligence and non-human modes of being, grounded in the powerful questions: How can humans and plants co-create new languages and embodied forms? How can we attune better to the multiplicity of nature within ourselves?
The Experience
Co-Presented with Luminato Festival
You are invited into an imperial space overtaken by plant life, where movement, sound, and space emerge beyond human logic. In layers of kin, performers move in kinship with moss, yarrow, clover, and oak to explore the connection between humans and the more-than-human world.
Unfolding in close proximity to the audience, the choreography emphasizes attentiveness and shared presence, allowing movement, sound, and space to shape the performance in real time. The work favours quiet accumulation over spectacle, revealing patterns of connection, resilience, and coexistence as the dancers move together across the space, creating a post-imperial ballroom utopia.
Choreographed by Angela Vitovec and co-presented and co-produced by Toronto Dance Theatre, the piece continues Vitovec’s exploration of plant consciousness and interdependence, following earlier works Sammal/Moss and Mossbelly.
Content warning: may include nudity.
About The Choreographer
Angela Vitovec, also known as Angela Schubot, grew up in Berlin, where she lived and worked for over 40 years; she now works between Berlin and Toronto as a choreographer, dancer, teacher, movement researcher, and bodyworker, while also being the mother of her 4 year old son, Nai.
She collaborated with Jared Gradinger (2009-2022), creating radical works on the debordering of the body such as WHAT THEY ARE INSTEAD OF ( 2009), IS MAYBE (2012), YEW OUTSIDE (2018) and THE HUT (2022) among others to international recognition. Her Solo Trilogy KÖRPER OHNE MACHT (2015) was awarded as the discoveries of the year 2015 for excellent further developments. Since 2016 Angela is educated in traditional amazonian plant medicine and is a facilitator at Caya Shobo Healing Center Peru. She has an education in perceptive pedagogy and fascia therapy Method Danis Bois/AEMF Berlin and teaches among others at ImpulsTanz Vienna, HZT-Berlin and Toronto Biennial of Arts. Angelas methods are searching for bodies of multiplicity in deep communion with plant nature. Following her radical methods she co-created the Solo SAMMAL/MOSS (2022), MOSSBELLY (2023) and YA! (2024) – a Yarrow choir.
In 2023 she changed her artistic name, taking the name of her forgotten grandfather, who was made aware to her by the plants: Vitovec. In Toronto, Angela is one of six Co-Directors of Collective Space, where she has initiated and co-initiated numerous community offerings, including CHOIRing – a weekly community sounding practice; We Need It – community dance classes co-initiated with Aisha Sasha John, Erin Poole, and Kate Nankervis; and Tender Again – monthly bodywork gatherings for vulnerable communities, co-initiated with Nyda Kwasowsky and Miru Yogarajah.