photo by John Lauener - Brendan Wyatt & Andrea Nann
Young Centre for the Performing Arts presents
Beside Each Other
World Premiere!
December 2 – 9
Tickets: $29, CADA/students $20
Only 7 shows! Book now!
Tickets 416-866-8666
or online at
http://www.youngcentre.ca/productions/10_season/beside_each_other.html
Featuring Andrea Nann and Brendan Wyatt with original music and poetry by Gord Downie, visuals by Elysha Poirier, lighting and production design by David Duclos. Facillitated by dramaturge Guy Cools.
Downie released his debut book of poetry, and an accompanying solo album “Coke Machine Glow”, in 2001, followed by
“Battle of the Nudes” in 2002. Beside Each Other is a contemporary dance performance that captures the intimacy of this work with a series of short duets. Performed by Nann and Wyatt, Beside Each Other explores the private landscape between two lovers as they tread through deep intimacy, heartache, restlessness, separation and transcendence into a harmonious love. Beautifully articulate and complex, paired on the same landscape, one near the other, their balance creates wholeness.
“Gorgeous dancers…stunning partnering” – Paula Citron, Globe and Mail
“[Wyatt and Nann] capture the honesty and feeling of Downie’s words.” – Janet Smith, Georgia Straight
“Each dancer tenderly accepts the other’s fragility” – Jodi Lundgren, Plank Magazine
“The dancers [speak] poetry to each other, sharing Gord’s words back and forth like candy.” Katie Munnik
