The Chimera Project Presents Haunted Dances

The Chimera Project Dance Theatre is proud to launch inaugural Haunted Dances. Inspired by a local legacy of outdoor community-activated dance in Toronto, an eerie tour guide departing from Jean Sibelius Park will lead followers to an evening of Halloween-inspired dance by choreographers Sze-Yang Ade-Lam, Jose Carret, Sophie Dow, Malgorzata Nowacka-May and Terril Maguire through a heartwarming community gathering.
“In my Slavic heritage, Halloween is a time of remembering our ancestors, but when we look through the lens of human frailty, it’s also a time to value every breathing, living moment. The Canadian tradition of wearing costumes references multiple others around the world that offer both fear and defiance, irreverence and respect, to both things we know and don’t know. It is a beautifully complex tradition.” – Malgorzata Nowacka-May, Artistic Director, The Chimera Project Dance Theatre.
Haunted Dances begins with a Witch Dance, then weaves gathered audiences through Toronto’s famous Annex neighbourhood on a Ghost Tour revealing local and non-local stories of hauntings, and features five encounters with dance. The dances, created by Toronto-based celebrated-to-emerging choreographers, showcase local family participants and professional dancers.
Haunted Dances creators feature Sze-Yang Ade-Lam, Jose Carret, Sophie Dow, and Malgorzata Nowacka-May. Haunted Dances will present original music by iconic dance composer Eric Cadesky, whose score for Chimera’s dance film “Bears, Stars and Trees” recently won best sound at Experimental/Dance Festival.

For those who love Halloween and would like to perform in the “witch dance” that kicks-off the event, there is still time to join! Visit: https://chimeradt.com/call-to-join/