Film Screening with Newton Moraes

ASHE – World Premiere – October 09, 2020 At Citadel, Toronto – Live Stream Performance ASHE was curated by Night Shift produced with the support of the City of Toronto through Toronto Arts Council, and made possible (in part) by the Government of Canada.  Night Shift is co-presented with Fall for Dance North.

Choreographer: Newton Moraes

Performer: Pulga Muchochoma

Original Music: Matthew Reid

Costume Design: Valerie Calam

Set Design: Newton Moraes & Solange Escostegui Cardoso

Set Painting: Sonya Stefan, Roy Donovan, Newton Moraes

Livestream Director: Barbara Willis Sweete

World Premiere ASHE – Choreographed by Newton Moraes, Ashe explores the explosion of body movements, markedly Luso-African, in a context where body and verbal language intertwine between the movement and the verbalization of national languages including, Emakhuwa, Changana, Elomwe, Portuguese and English. Ashe affirms a dialogue between contemporary Brazilian technique and Canadian-Mozambican dancer Pulga Muchochoma’s movement vocabulary, and music by Matthew Reid. Moraes then adds a game of scenic lights that provoke reflections and questions about the necessity of intercultural voices communicating in a world threatened by isolation of groups of people and national communities.