coexisDance #103 Artists
Julie Lassonde -Guest Curator
Originally from Montreal, Julie Lassonde is a performance artist who studied movement, theatre, music, visual arts and law. She/they use physical movement in relation to space, objects and audio or video recordings to invite reflections on justice. The Ontario and Canada arts councils and other institutions have supported her/their work.
Germaine Liu
Germaine Liu (Hong Kong born, Cantonese-Chinese-Canadian) works and plays in multi-modalities. As a sound artist, percussionist, improvisor, and explorer of found objects, her work indulges in the permeability between touch/movement/sound, and their relationship to topography and circumstance. Germaine is an Associate Artist with Public Recordings.
Bea Labikova
Bea is a Slovak-Canadian saxophonist and improviser whose music traverses free improvisation, avant-garde, modern jazz and Slovak folk music. You can find her exploring and playing in ad hoc projects and new music ensembles like the avant-groove Future Proof, free improvised project “No Beginning No End” alongside Germaine Liu and William Parker, as well as the avant-jazz group Triio and the contemporary afrobeat band Asiko Afrobeat Ensemble. She is also the co-founder, visual artist and one-half of the driving force behind the Women From Space Festival.
Sully Malaeb Proulx
Sully Malaeb Proulx is a Canadian dance artist currently based in Toronto. After training at the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre in Toronto, he pursued his dance studies at The State University of New York, graduating summa cum laude with a BFA in dance (2020). Since leaving for New York and returning to Toronto, Sully has trained and danced with artists from near and far, working with MADBOOTS DANCE (NY), Tom Weinberger (NY), Hanna Kiel (TO), D.A. Hoskins (TO), Lior Lazarof (IL) and other artists and independent creators. He continues to grow his roots in Toronto and is currently working on a CBC production Game Savers, as head of the art department.
Bee Pallomina
Bee Pallomina is a dance artist making and performing work for stage, installation, film/video and puppets. Her practice includes movement, care, and the everyday. She is an artist, educator, and mom.
Gabi Charron-Merritt
Gabi is a musician who loves to perform, compose, teach and improvise; playing music on guitar, trumpet, piano and a miscellany of found instruments, as well as being a bilingual singer-songwriter/poète-interprète.
Emma Hewson is a Toronto-based musician, who has made herself known as a versatile session musician, teacher, producer, and original artist. On top of owning her own private teaching business in the heart of downtown T.O, she’s been releasing music since 2014, and performing in bands across Southern Ontario.
Leena Raudvee is a visual artist and performance artist. Since being diagnosed with a muscular degenerative disease, she has been exploring the relation between her drawing practice and her daily performance, as performance art, of the basic acts of mobility.
Sadie Cahill
Sadie Cahill is a queer Toronto-based dance artist, possessing a versatile performance and creation background both on stage and for film. Sadie holds a BFA degree in Dance from York University, where she was a 2-year member of the York Dance Ensemble. Throughout her performance and choreographic career, Sadie has had the privilege of working with MillO Dance Projects, Let the Elephants Dance, Theatre Oculous, Meaningful Movement, SomethingCreative, The Disability Collective, Garage, Spy Films, and Keoni & Mari Madrid. Between creative projects, Sadie shares her passion and knowledge of movement as a faculty member at City Dance Corps in Toronto teaching contemporary, ballet, and modern-based classes to a wide range of levels and abilities.
Julie Lassonde -Guest Curator
Originally from Montreal, Julie Lassonde is a performance artist who studied movement, theatre, music, visual arts and law. She/they use physical movement in relation to space, objects and audio or video recordings to invite reflections on justice. The Ontario and Canada arts councils and other institutions have supported her/their work.
Germaine Liu
Germaine Liu (Hong Kong born, Cantonese-Chinese-Canadian) works and plays in multi-modalities. As a sound artist, percussionist, improvisor, and explorer of found objects, her work indulges in the permeability between touch/movement/sound, and their relationship to topography and circumstance. Germaine is an Associate Artist with Public Recordings.
Bea Labikova
Bea is a Slovak-Canadian saxophonist and improviser whose music traverses free improvisation, avant-garde, modern jazz and Slovak folk music. You can find her exploring and playing in ad hoc projects and new music ensembles like the avant-groove Future Proof, free improvised project “No Beginning No End” alongside Germaine Liu and William Parker, as well as the avant-jazz group Triio and the contemporary afrobeat band Asiko Afrobeat Ensemble. She is also the co-founder, visual artist and one-half of the driving force behind the Women From Space Festival.
Sully Malaeb Proulx
Sully Malaeb Proulx is a Canadian dance artist currently based in Toronto. After training at the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre in Toronto, he pursued his dance studies at The State University of New York, graduating summa cum laude with a BFA in dance (2020). Since leaving for New York and returning to Toronto, Sully has trained and danced with artists from near and far, working with MADBOOTS DANCE (NY), Tom Weinberger (NY), Hanna Kiel (TO), D.A. Hoskins (TO), Lior Lazarof (IL) and other artists and independent creators. He continues to grow his roots in Toronto and is currently working on a CBC production Game Savers, as head of the art department.
Bee Pallomina
Bee Pallomina is a dance artist making and performing work for stage, installation, film/video and puppets. Her practice includes movement, care, and the everyday. She is an artist, educator, and mom.
Gabi Charron-Merritt
Gabi is a musician who loves to perform, compose, teach and improvise; playing music on guitar, trumpet, piano and a miscellany of found instruments, as well as being a bilingual singer-songwriter/poète-interprète.
Emma Hewson is a Toronto-based musician, who has made herself known as a versatile session musician, teacher, producer, and original artist. On top of owning her own private teaching business in the heart of downtown T.O, she’s been releasing music since 2014, and performing in bands across Southern Ontario.
Leena Raudvee is a visual artist and performance artist. Since being diagnosed with a muscular degenerative disease, she has been exploring the relation between her drawing practice and her daily performance, as performance art, of the basic acts of mobility.
Sadie Cahill
Sadie Cahill is a queer Toronto-based dance artist, possessing a versatile performance and creation background both on stage and for film. Sadie holds a BFA degree in Dance from York University, where she was a 2-year member of the York Dance Ensemble. Throughout her performance and choreographic career, Sadie has had the privilege of working with MillO Dance Projects, Let the Elephants Dance, Theatre Oculous, Meaningful Movement, SomethingCreative, The Disability Collective, Garage, Spy Films, and Keoni & Mari Madrid. Between creative projects, Sadie shares her passion and knowledge of movement as a faculty member at City Dance Corps in Toronto teaching contemporary, ballet, and modern-based classes to a wide range of levels and abilities.
Coexisdance is a curated evening of short (10-15 minute) improvised duets and small ensembles comprised of sound and movement artists.
We come together in the spirit of collaborative exploration, investigation and adventure.
We come together in the spirit of collaborative exploration, investigation and adventure.
Curatorial and Vision Statement for coexisDance
coexisDance was always envisioned as meeting place for artists of diverse styles and backgrounds. coexisDance founder Colin Anthony was deft at programming a balance of ambitious emerging professionals, established artists and community artists. He always left a profound curatorial mark on the programme with his characteristic simplicity, wisdom and vision.
The organizing team of coexisDance aim to make this commitment to inclusivity stronger than ever, to keep the artistry high and the vibe heartwarming. In this way we curate on the basis of equity, a vision for growing and deepening the community and a desire to showcase the most amazing improvisation. Here are some commitments that are applied when putting together each coexisDance programme:
After artists are selected the curators uses their own artistic judgment to create ensembles that will offer an exciting and balanced show. In general, coexisDance shows will feature small ensembles and will have each artist perform twice in a night in order to allow for a bigger artistic statement. As a result, there is usually only room for 8-11 performers each show.
We hope that this statement is clarifying to all that apply to perform and hope that everyone who applies will be patient and flexible and keep attending the shows!
To many more Coexisdance adventures <3
Raphael Roter & Brenda Joy Lem
The organizing team of coexisDance aim to make this commitment to inclusivity stronger than ever, to keep the artistry high and the vibe heartwarming. In this way we curate on the basis of equity, a vision for growing and deepening the community and a desire to showcase the most amazing improvisation. Here are some commitments that are applied when putting together each coexisDance programme:
- Including artists of colour and indigenous artists.
- Including all gender identities.
- Including artists who are new to coexisDance.
- Including emerging and next generation artists.
After artists are selected the curators uses their own artistic judgment to create ensembles that will offer an exciting and balanced show. In general, coexisDance shows will feature small ensembles and will have each artist perform twice in a night in order to allow for a bigger artistic statement. As a result, there is usually only room for 8-11 performers each show.
We hope that this statement is clarifying to all that apply to perform and hope that everyone who applies will be patient and flexible and keep attending the shows!
To many more Coexisdance adventures <3
Raphael Roter & Brenda Joy Lem
We would like to gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario and the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.