The Muted Note

A Contemporary Dance performance with live music by guest artists Susanna Hood and Scott Thomson- Toronto/Montreal

"The Muted Note is a striking accomplishment. It ultimately resonates like P.K. Page's galvanized language itself." –Stuart Broomer, Musicworks

Wed Oct 29th Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8pm
Tickets $15 at the door,
$10 student/senior
Unemployed PWYC
Free Flow Dance Centre 224 25th St. W. Saskatoon.

Montreal composer and trombonist, Scott Thomson, and dance artist and vocalist, Susanna Hood, will perform The Muted Note, a suite of songs and dances based on poems by P.K. Page, 40 times and in 9 Canadian provinces in the autumn of 2014.

Scott composed the suite, a hybrid of jazz and artsong, and Susanna subsequently choreographed the songs on three other dancers with live music by Scott's quintet, The Disguises. Susanna's dances, like Scott's songs, are made to be extended through improvisation, and the creative input of their superb collaborators will animate and activate Page's beautiful verse, the core of this provocatively unconventional Poetry + Music + Dance show. (See personnel below.)

Susanna and Scott will be touring to support their duo CD, also called The Muted Note (&records 2013), and their presenters range across the fields of music, dance, and literature, as well as in universities.

Susanna Hood is an award-winning dance artist renowned, especially, for her synthesis of dance and vocal improvisation, as well as her beautifully crafted choreography. In performance, she sings the song lyrics with tremendous poise and intention, and animates them with her singular improvisations characterized by both their focus and wild abandon. As part of their duo, Scott switches freely from accompanying Susanna to soloing in a vocal, extroverted style reminiscent of his teacher, the great American trombonist, Roswell Rudd.

Patricia Kathleen Page (1916-2010) is one of Canada's most celebrated literary figures, and wrote some of this nation's finest poems. She was also a visual artist, working as P.K. Irwin, whose artworks are in the collections of major museums including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario.


https://www.musicworks.ca/featured-article/evolution-muted-note
http://www.scottthomson.ca/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-muted-note-a-new-choreography-by-susanna-hood
 

AUDITIONS for 2015!

Spread the news! Free Flow Dance Theatre is holding open auditions for both male and female dancers for a variety of projects during our 20 year anniversary!
 

Requirements:
Dancers should be at an intermediate-advanced level.
Please note* we are also seeking non-dancers, actors, musicians and anyone who may be interested in taking part in a brand new work celebrating the companies 20 year anniversary!
Age 18+
Modern or contemporary dance experience an asset.

We are seeking a variety of dancers for short term performance based paid contracts.
We are also seeking 2 dancers for annual paid contracts.
Our contracts include free studio usage for personal training, modern dance classes, conditioning classes and consulting.

The details:
Saturday November 8th
Free Flow Dance Centre 224 25th St. W. Saskatoon
1-4 pm
Come dressed to dance!
Please feel free to bring a dance resume if you have one.
 

For information contact Jackie Latendresse at 306-665-5998 or by email at freeflowdance@hotmail.com

Free Flow Dance Celebrates 20 years by inviting local dance groups to recreate our choreographic works!

As a part of our 20 year celebration, award winning choreographer Jackie Latendresse, would like to share her work with local dancers and dance groups by inviting them to participate in our Celebratory Retrospective Remount Project.

Jackie will work personally with each group/director to help them to select an appropriate piece of choreography from the company repertoire for their group's age level and abilities. The group will be provided with video footage and choreographic notes for the work in order to aid their remount of the piece in as authentic of a manner as possible. They will also be provided with copies of the music, costume details and other relevant production details. Jackie will attend selected rehearsals with each group remounting a work to ensure that they are not missing any small staging or choreographic details.

Each dance group will be invited to participate in a 20 year celebration performance opportunity during 2015. We have a number of special events planned including our public and private in studio showings, 20 years of Free Flow Photography archive launch, W.I.P. New Dance Series, Back Alley Antics, International Dance Day and Gala Theatrical performance.

Interested dance groups or choreographers should contact Jackie Latendresse directly at freeflowdance@hotmail.com or by phone at 306-665-5998.

Dance groups and independent choreographers are encouraged to begin work on this project in 2014 if they desire as there may be performance opportunities in early 2015!
There is no cost for participation in this Retrospective Remount program. Your dance group/company will have written permission to perform the selected work at a variety of productions throughout 2015 including venues of your own selection as our gift to you. No royalty fees will be charged.

We look forward to sharing our work with you and celebrating this land mark anniversary with our whole community! Sincerely, Jackie Latendresse - A.D. Free Flow Dance Theatre
Check out the Repertoire page for a quick list of our previous works!

We are pleased to announce that participating groups so far include Dance on The Prairies youth company which will be remounting Mythological Requiem 19 and Dance Ink/Saskatchewan Dance Project which will be remounting Navras 2005 and Fallen 2008!

Join Free Flow Dance Theatre and friends at their annual fall concert for an evening of professional contemporary dance works at the Refinery Theatre on November 29th!

Motion Influx
Free Flow Dance Theatre with special guest choreographers Erica Jacks & Kyle Syverson
Sat Nov 29th 2014
Refinery Theatre 609 Dufferin Ave. Saskatoon
Doors open 7:30pm Show @8pm
Tickets $20 general, $15 student/senior
Advanced sales http://ontheboards.ca/index.php
Box Office: 306-653-5191

Wood's Body Goods - All Natural Lip Balms

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 Created for the Free Flow Dance Theatre Company!

Our Newest fund raising initiative, lip balms by Wood's Body Goods are now available just in time to soothe those Canadian Winter induced dry lips! 3 Lip Balms come in a lovely canvass bag for only $10! They include Wild Berry, Coconut and French Vanilla 50% of all sales will go directly to the dance company!

That is a fantastic deal! Please contact us at freeflowdance@hotmail.com to place your order. Pick up can be arranged at the Free Flow Dance Centre 224 25th St. W. Saskatoon. Out of town orders will include a small shipping fee.