BAILEY ENG + ALEXANDRE MORIN

Bailey Eng

Look

Through the metaphor of discovering an unfamiliar creature named Look, this study investigates human experience and the idea of inhabiting a natural environment. Is humanity moving towards a robotic future, away from an animal past? In questioning what is recognizable as human in animals, or animal in humans, Look draws attention to our existence in its physical, biological, and empathetic rhythms. Engaging in a demanding physicality, organic and reactive, Bailey explores the creature’s anatomy and how it interacts with different environments – traveling, breathing, waiting, looking. She wishes to create a meditative experience that enhances observation, both external and internal.

Alexandre Morin

Breach

A poetic and political immersion exploring the hierarchy between humans and animals; a choreographic Marineland questioning the perilous state of our oceans; a deep dive into the body through breath, awakening the kinesthetic empathy of the spectator. Onstage, the fluidity of the performers is juxtaposed with the stillness of plastic orcas. Breach: the leap that killer whales make when coming up for air, as well as the shock experienced reading the work of biologist Ingrid Visser. This performance draws us into a space in which dancers, spectators, and creatures coexist, connected through the air we breathe. Submerged in a sound bath, we are engulfed in a delirious and hypnotic ecosystem.