The Darling Foundry in collaboration with Dancemakers presents Rosé Porn by the artist Zoja Smutny.

Rosé Porn is a creation described by choreographer Zoja Smutny as a concept album that takes form through the process of the live performance. Three dancers, Zoja Smutny, Brendan Jensen and Claudia Fancello, compose a choreography around which the music of the DJ and artist Victoria Choeng is articulated.

In this performance, the usual frontier separating the public from the artists is fragilized. The dancers get close to the public, questioning ideas of intimacy and voyeurism, that are echoed in the title.

Visual arts influence greatly Smutny's work, who created Rosé Porn as an installation evolving through the performance. The form it takes varies, depending on who is in the room, and what shape the room takes is predicated on who is there. The audience plays part in making the architectural space. This work is intended for an intimate audience, where people are invited to circulate, to sit, to walk, to lie down, to close their eyes, to take pictures, to check out...

The performance will take place on June 1st and 2nd, from 9:30pm to 10:30pm, after which the space will be opened up to the public as a dancing space. There will be a bar manned by the Darling Foundry team on site.

Tickets available on the Dancemakers website.

Regular : 20$

Students : 15$

This event is presented as part of GESTURES² : at the crossroad of dance and visual arts

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Credits

A project by Zoja Smutny

Performance : Zoja Smutny, Brendan Jensen, Claudia Fancello

Music : Victoria Choeng

Zoja Smutny

Zoja Smutny is an artist that works at the intersection of dance, visual arts, music and writing. She recently completed her Masters at UDK in Berlin. She spends her time between Berlin, Toronto, and Montréal performing, making choreographies and teaching. She is currently a resident artist with Dancemakers, where she is working on her concept album Rosé Porn. Her research is founded in her curiosities around intimacy, presence, popular culture, the cinematic frame, critical theory and shared practices.

Dancemakers

Dancemakers is Toronto's second oldest contemporary dance company. Dancemakers proposes a curatorial practice about people, about making space for a multitude of perspectives and systems of thought with the vision of centering towards people as individuals. They embrace a multi-voices system through their co-curatorial approach to provide a base for artists to make, think, and do. As a centre for everyone they pose the questions: "what is dance?", "why are you dancing?" and "how do you define what you do right now?"

Dancemakers Dancemakers is Toronto's second oldest contemporary dance company. Dancemakers proposes a curatorial practice about people, about making space for a multitude of perspectives and systems of thought with the vision of centering towards people as individuals. They embrace a multi-voices system through their co-curatorial approach to provide a base for artists to make, think, and do. As a centre for everyone they pose the questions: "what is dance?", "why are you dancing?" and "how do you define what you do right now?"