Discover Dance with Victoria Mata (Meridian Hall or Livestream)
Meridian Hall, Lower Lobby
1 Front St E, Toronto, ON M5E 1B2, Canada
Ontario
43.6468161
-79.37616709999999
Description
TO Live and Nova Dance present
DISCOVER DANCE with Victoria Mata
Discover Dance is a free, all-ages, lunch hour series introducing many of Toronto’s incredible dance artists. Discover, in a warm and intimate setting, diverse dance forms woven into Toronto’s vibrant cultural scene. Hosted by Travis Knights, Discover Dance is an hour packed with dance and conversation.
As of March 1st, TO Live ensures masks and hand sanitizer are readily available. To protect the health of immunocompromised attendees, we recommend that you wear a mask throughout the duration of the event.
Wednesday, May 18, 12:00PM-1:00PM
This event is on-site. Join us in-person as we welcome you back to MERIDIAN HALL!
Registration is FREE.
This event will also be livestreamed! If you cannot make it in person, or prefer to join us virtually, you can register for a livestream ticket and will be emailed the link to join.
About the Artist:
Victoria Mata (Choreographer, Dancer)
Victoria Mata Venezuelan-Canadian settler in T’Koronto. Poly-lingual choreographer, dance artist and activist with a background in expressive arts therapy. Mata’s career was first sculpted by pedagogic, self-directed training, which proceeded with training under internationally renowned choreographers. Mata’s sensibility to inclusion and border stories is due to her eclectic upbringing in three continents before the age of fifteen. Intersectional, multi-framed community-arts and the abolishment of violence against women are some of Mata’s passion. She has intricately weaved these themes in her MFA in Contemporary Choreography and is foundational for some of her recognitions such as being a recipient of the Metcalf Foundation, a finalist of the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award and 7 Dora nominations. Mata deeply believes in the arts as a core and tangible mode of sustaining and transforming the paradigms of oppressive tropes to populate a sphere of discourse, play, exploration and possibility.
Nano Valverde (Composer)
Chilean born musician/composer. He studied classical guitar and completed his musical studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music and later at York University in music composition. Nano has composed music for various projects including The Jaguar Project, for dancer choreographer Alejandro Roncería, soundscape for the interdisciplinary arts installations Rivers of Blood Flows On, sound for the theatre piece Veins of Copper and the music for the documentary War is not a Game. Nano composed music for Deepti Gupta’s dance piece Quanta and performed in its premiere at The National Arts Gallery in Ottawa, then toured New York and Banff Centre for the Arts. He composed the score for the film Johnny Greyeyes which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Tobacco Ties dance piece for World Indigenous Dance Festival. He composed and sound designed Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre. He founded Ayekan Ensemble and composed multimedia performance Reading Galeano inspired by texts of Uruguayan writer-historian Eduardo Galeano and multimedia piece Agua/Water. Nano is presently collaborating with various musicians, artists, and choreographers exploring sound textures using distinct timbres and rhythmic elements using both electronic and acoustic sound elements.
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Start:
2022-05-18T12:00:00-04:00
End:
2022-05-18T12:50:00-04:00
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Other
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