52 Days: On today’s countdown to #DanceWeekend20, we are featuring tiger princess dance projects. DanceWeekend is happening January 25 & 26 at the Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre.
Connect with tiger princess dance projects:
Facebook @tigerprincessdanceprojects
Twitter @yveing
Instagram @tigerprincessdanceprojects
- Can you tell us little bit about your company/collective/school?
Founded in 1995 by Yvonne Ng, princess productions supports the work of two divisions – tiger princess dance projects (1995) for Yvonne’s activities as a performer, choreographer, arts educator and producer; and dance: made in canada / fait au canada (2001) a presenting division that produces a biennial festival of contemporary Canadian dance works
- What are showing at DanceWeekend’20?
A new duet for Irvin Chow and Yiming Cai
- Who are the performers/collaborators in this piece(s)?
Performers: Irvin Chow and Yiming Cai
Outside Eye: Luke Garwood
Lighting Designer : Arun Srinivasan
- Can you talk about your creative process? What inspires you?
With this duet, the inspiration comes from the image and metaphor of slippery pulse or pearls rolling in a dish.
- Please share your experience performing in a previous DanceWeekend and/or tell us what you are looking forward to at DanceWeekend’20?
This is a superb opportunity to share and show my works to audiences that I would normally not meet.
- Do you have any up-coming performances/events you would like to share?
My company, tiger princess dance projects has a few free arts education programmes for youth, specifically Swallowing Clouds that’s coming up in the winter of 2020 at the Toronto Public Library – Dufferin-St Clair and Victoria branches
Photo credit: Franck Butaye