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Two dancers are locked in a liminal space of shared memories, imagined incidents, and the difficult things left unsaid. Together they set off on an athletic journey traversing the tangible and illogical as they learn to navigate change without letting go – because family is forever, right?
- everything i wanted to tell you / tout ce que j’avais envie de te dire
@mayworkskjipuktukhfx@breakingcircus
Choreography by Jessie Garon in collaboration with Sully Malaeb Proulx, Jarrett Siddall
JESSIE GARON (Artistic Director of @vazariartsco ) is a queer performer and choreographer working in contemporary dance theatre. (Détails en français sur notre site web).
Jessie is the director and choreographer of
EVERYTHING I WANTED TO TELL YOU (May 7-8 @breakingcircus ) Link in bio.
"The inspiration to create this work came from reconciling the friction and sense of duty in my own family. I come from a homestead farm where siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents have lived and worked together for six generations. In a time when establishing boundaries and cutting ties is more encouraged, what has to happen if we choose to engage with the tension instead? I hope the audience will leave thinking about the listening, empathy and flexibility required to evolve with people over time."
Jessie is also offering a FREE workshop on May 9!
BIO:
Originally from a homesteaded family farm in Alberta, she is now based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a graduate of Dance Arts Institute after which she interned for Ate9 Dance Company (Los Angeles) under Artistic Director Danielle Agami studying Gaga Movement Language daily. Since 2014, she has participated primarily in collaborative processes blending performative forms. Her work incites the potential of dance virtuosity, rigor and spectacle as materials to craft spirited, athletic and abstract dance theatre.
Working in Uncertainty - with Jessie Garon of @vazariartsco
FREE or by donation
Register in advance. Website link in bio.
Working In Uncertainty plays with agency, togetherness, and uncertainty through a group improvisation structure. We explore uncertainty as a rich creative state without ego and look for ways to embrace it. This workshop encourages a playful approach to build skills as an interpreter and improvisor. Participants practise following impulses, supporting fellow performers, and diving into their own creativity. As a group we question; what is required for us to retain full agency while participating completely in heightened togetherness? How can safety and negotiation be built into the practice so we all take part?
This workshop is geared towards professional artists from any medium with a performance practice, as well as students in pre-professional programs.
everything i wanted to tell you / tout ce que j'avais envie de te dire
May 7-8 / 7-8 mai
Breaking Circus (2164 Amalamek Wy)
Tickets @ MayworksKjipuktukHFX.ca
@vazariartsco@ccghalifax@liveartdance
Winner of three Dora Mavor Moore awards 🏆🏆🏆 This athletic and empathic work of dance theatre lifts a glass (and then smashes it) to love, loyalty and the difficult things we hope never to escape.
May 7 & 8 @breakingcircus
Ticket link in bio.
@vazariartsco@liveartdance
🇫🇷 Show bilingue pour les francos! @ccghalifax
ASL on May 7th
everything i wanted to tell you (but couldn't, so here it is now) / tout ce que j'avais envie de te dire
@vazariartsco
show bilingue! EN/FR
@ccghalifax@liveartdance
May 7-8 @breakingcircus
$10 advance / $15 at door
This athletic and empathic work of dance theatre lifts a glass (and then smashes it) to love, loyalty and the difficult things we hope never to escape.
Winner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards 🏆🏆🏆
Outstanding Choreography
Outstanding Production
Outstanding Performance by an Individual
Also nominated for Outstanding Original Sound Composition and Outstanding Achievement in Design
The winds of change can be unpredictable, but every small action builds on another toward a future we may not always see for ourselves. Join us in celebration of every break in rank and every tie to the past that signals the future. Join us in knowing that amidst the turbulence, we have each other.
April 25 - May 10, 2026
Website in bio
#BreakRank
#TrySomething
#WeHaveEachOther
EVERYSEEKER 2026 artist announcement 📣 @evicshen • june thirteenth, at breaking circus, doors 6pm.
Ticket link in bio, limited amount of festival passes available. Don’t sleep on this. 19+ event. PWYC option available, $15 suggested. Opener TBA.
Evicshen is a sound performance alias by Victoria Shen who manipulates records and materials of all kinds. Her sounds oscillate between moments of restraint and swells of frenetic and confrontational movement. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls ‘chaotic sound’ to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning. Her personal identity, her body, is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. In her live performances, she proposes an exploration between meaning and non-meaning through the physical activation of noise tropes. The appendage-like instruments and objects she makes, exemplify Shen’s ability to embody through sound her interest in the tension created by opposition: control and chaos, the unique and the mass produced, the practical and the absurd.
design by @jupiterv99
#halifax #halifaxnoise #halifaxns #halifaxevents
