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Video still of Ness Lee by LuluWei. Design by Driftnote.

Ness Lee x TDT

Free Public Presentations at 32 Lisgar St and Park
November 23 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
November 29 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
December 1 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM 32 Lisgar St and Park , 32 Lisgar Street, Toronto (VIEW MAP)

Accessibility Info: Accessible entrance
– Note: If you have access needs and are being dropped off at the venue, use ’36 Lisgar’ as the drop-off address instead of 32 Lisgar. This will bring you closer to our entrance. Washrooms, Elevator, AODA compliant building.
Parking: Limited Street, Underground Parking (Paid). There is ample paid parking nearby, including a Green P lot in the building, a lot accessible from the alley between Dovercourt and Lisgar off Sudbury, and street parking on both Lisgar Street and Abell Street.

A new performance work in collaboration with visual artist Ness Lee as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art

Free Public Presentation at 32 Lisgar Street and Park, Toronto

Only 3 performances!
November 23 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
November 29 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
December 1 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM

TDT collaborates with well known Toronto visual artist Ness Lee on a new performance work featuring the company ensemble. This free durational event will be performed on November 23rd, November 29th  and December 1st, 2024 at 32 Lisgar Street.

After their initial collaboration during the Performance Clash in 2020, TDT and Ness Lee come together to imagine a performance that will  gently move through the biennial’s exhibition space, with seven performers interacting with Lee’s distinctive sculptures and objects. Finding moments of intimacy between their bodies and the plush characters Ness creates, the dancers will animate the gallery through a tender parade, embodying the breath of space as a  momentary feeling of one another.

Toronto Biennial of Art Program

About the Artist

Photo by Alyson Hardwick

Ness Lee

Ness Lee draws upon the personal history and narratives of their diasporic cultural upbringing and the relationship to the body as a carrier of felt language and lived emotions. With these embodied experiences, Lee creates tender and surreal works that take shape in various mediums, spaces and realms of expression as an effort in seeking comfort, forgiveness and a desire for an end to a perpetual state. Their work has been featured in galleries and institutions in Canada as well as internationally in New York, Los Angeles, India, Mexico, Tokyo and Taiwan.

Production Credits

Artistic Director: Andrew Tay
Rehearsal Director: Rosemary James
Performers: Camil Bellefleur, Brayden Cairns, Millina Fletcher, Megumi Kokuba, Ryan Kostyniuk, Roberto Soria, Elizabeth Yip
Production Manager: Aden Altamirano

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, curated by Jenn Goodwin, this performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

This program is presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art and is made possible through the generous support of the Lindy Green Family Foundation.

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