October 5-6, 2024 from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM
Free Public Presentation
Location: George Brown College – Waterfront Campus, Loading Dock, 51 Dockside Drive Toronto
Our first international partnership of the season, Coalescing Towards is a 12-hour durational performance set within a unique industrial space near Toronto’s waterfront. Choreographed by Italian Choreographer Michele Rizzo, this one time only performance featuring 15 dancers runs from October 5 at dusk to October 6 at dawn.
Coalescing Towards reveals the concealed, yet dynamic space surrounding emotions like ecstasy, euphoria and anticipation. The performance evolves through repeated sets of simple pedestrian movements, enacted in unison by groups of performers as they navigate their environment. A gradually intensifying dance performance investigating the concepts of repetition and unison, exploring the capacity for movement to forge togetherness.
Milan-based choreographer and visual artist Michele Rizzo’s work explores processes of transformation and transcendence. His work HIGHER has toured internationally since 2015 and the extended version HIGHER xtn was recently acquired to the Stedelijk Museum’s collection in Amsterdam. Since 2020 Rizzo has collaborated with fashion brands such as MARNI, Off-White, Magliano and Moschino.
“Watching Rizzo’s dancers explore their bodies, both individually and as a group, seemed like the most natural, and human, thing in the world.” ArtReview
Coalescing Towards Masterclass with Michele Rizzo
October 9, 2024 from 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
This is a free workshop. Limited spaces are available. Pre-registration is required.
Location: Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street TorontoGet ready to move! Stamina and good shoes are a must.
Michele Rizzo’s mesmerizing choreography offers a poetic exploration of how energy flows between bodies in urban contexts. In this workshop, Rizzo explores the performative elements of his Nuit Blanche project “Coalescing Towards” inspired by pedestrian activities like walking, waiting, resting, and rushing. Participants explore space through both shared and solo movements, using repetition to come together and break apart as a collective body.
Michele Rizzo is an Italian artist based in Milan who seamlessly integrates choreography and visual arts, notably exploring club culture aesthetics. His works include “HIGHER xtn.” (2018), acquired by Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, and “Rest” (2020), displayed at Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma and acquired by Fondazione Sandretto (Turin).
This workshop was developed in partnership with Nuit Blanche Toronto.