November 23, 29 and December 1, 2024
Free Public Presentation
Location: 32 Lisgar Street, Toronto
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.
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.