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Winter Danceworks Tickets and Program
winter danceworks

Join us for Guelph Youth Dances’ Winter Danceworks with guest performances from Dust and Soul Dance Projects and Rhapsody Dance.

Winter Danceworks features new work by choreographers Emmett Bradshaw, Leslie Fisher, Nickeshia Garrick, Allen Kaeja, Kween, Willem Sadler, Georgia Simms, Kelly Steadman and Tara Butler.

This evening of dance celebrates our youth dancers in training, post secondary dancers from Rhapsody Dance and professional dancers of Dust and Soul Dance. You will be treated to a variety of dance styles and witness dancers in every phase of development from the early stages of training to established senior artists sharing their love of dance together at The Registry.

 

Show A  Program, Winter Dance Works 6:00 pm

Eclipse

Apprentice I Company: Aubrey Armstrong, Rose Cetkin, Nadège Duffield, Evelyn Foster, Molly Goodridge, Penny Kerrigan, Claire Kowacz

Choreographer: Leslie Fisher

Music:  Inanna, Armand Amar

 Relying on Relay

Apprentice II Company: Maélle Atkinson, Emma de Jong, Charlotte Gouws, Mila Lewis, Chloe Mackenzie, Maeve Mathany, Isabel McNeil, Ayla Prieur, Audrey Ribeiro, Adia Ross, Grace Snell, Maddy Thomson-Bayne, Skye Watson

Choreographer: Kelly Steadman

Music: Light by Daphni

 Together

Young Company: Alvy Cope, Olivia Dube-Goss, Claire Gomes, Olivia Gomes, Violet Lawson, Stefania Lytvynova, Ayana Morton, Samantha Ribeiro, Sarah Snell, Arwen Stephens, Maelle Stephenson, Talia Vigers, Hilah Watson, Viola Wilson, Karis Wohlgemut, Maia Zwingli

Choreographer: Tara Butler

Music: Orchestrated versions of Wake me up by Avicii, Eleanor Rigby The Beatles

Rhythm and Roots

GYD Company: Jillian Alac, Sasha Baldwin, Alexandra de Jong, Grace GillOrme, Kanchani Karunaratne, Audrey Lawson, Chloe LeBlanc, Molly Linder, Ava Martin, Iris Moers, Audrey Richardson, Loressa Sadiku, Maia Schneider- Fields, Quinn Stewart, Kate Thompson, Katy Thomson- Bayne, Maren Wegner, Audrey Withers, Kaiya Wohlgemut

Choreographer: Kween

Music: Mamito’s Calypso

 The Survival Of Knowing

Dust and Soul

Dancer: Tara Butler

Choreographer: Allen Kaeja

Music: Edgardo Moreno

Honeybee Feet

Apprentice II Company: Maélle Atkinson, Emma de Jong, Charlotte Gouws, Mila Lewis, Chloe Mackenzie, Maeve Mathany, Isabel McNeil, Ayla Prieur, Audrey Ribeiro, Adia Ross, Grace Snell, Maddy Thomson-Bayne, Skye Watson

Choreographer: Eliza Mills

Music: All My Life by The Staves

People Watching

GYD Red Company: Jillian Alac, Alexandra de Jong, Grace GillOrme, Audrey Lawson, Ava Martin, Maia Schneider-Fields, Molly Linder, Quinn Stewart, Kate Thompson, Maren Wegner, Audrey Withers

Choreographer: Emmett Bradshaw in collaboration with the dancers and Kai Fitzpatrick

Music: Last Birthday by 7038634357, 1997 by Småland, Flashlight by 7038634357

 Mizu

Young Company: Alvy Cope, Olivia Dube-Goss, Claire Gomes, Olivia Gomes, Violet Lawson, Stefania Lytvynova, Ayana Morton, Samantha Ribeiro, Sarah Snell, Arwen Stephens, Maelle Stephenson, Talia Vigers, Hilah Watson, Viola Wilson, Karis Wohlgemut, Maia Zwingli

Choreographer: Lisa Sandlos and the dancers

Music: Evolving Rhythms (Global Water Dances International); poem by Maelle Stephenson

App I Company:  Aubrey Armstrong, Rose Cetkin, Nadège Duffield, Evelyn Foster, Molly Goodridge, Penny Kerrigan, Claire Kowacz

Choreographer: Lisa Sandlos and Global Water Dances International

Music: Global Dance 2023 by Nicolás Soto Urrea

ONE/ OF/ TWO

Dust and Soul

Dancers: Nadia Dardano and Angelina Da Silva

Choreographer: Willem Sadler

Music: Sofie Birch, Johan Carøe, Kendrick Lamar, DANGERDOOM

Sound of a City

GYD Blue Company: Sasha Baldwin, Kanchani Karunaratne, Chloe LeBlanc, Iris Moers, Audrey Richardson, Loressa Sadiku, Katy Thomson- Bayne, Kaiya Wohlgemut

Choreographer: Georgia Simms

Music: Beijing by Patrick Watson

 

Show B Program- Winter Dance Works 8:00 pm

Microcosm

GYD Company: Jillian Alac, Sasha Baldwin, Alexandra de Jong, Grace GillOrme, Kanchani Karunaratne, Audrey Lawson, Chloe LeBlanc, Molly Linder, Ava Martin, Iris Moers, Audrey Richardson, Loressa Sadiku, Maia Schneider- Fields, Quinn Stewart, Kate Thompson, Katy Thomson- Bayne, Maren Wegner, Audrey Withers, Kaiya Wohlgemut

Choreographer: Tara Butler

Music: Zoe Keating, Olafur Arnalds

In Between

Rhapsody:  Ciera Bisch, Naomi Ellis, Mikayla Erison, Elizabeth Hofer, Aleks Kangur, Kayla Rankine, Weldon Scott, Marina Simonović

Choreographer: Tara Butler

Music: Submersive
  

The Survival of Knowing

Dust and Soul

Dancer: Tara Butler 

Choreographer: Allen Kaeja

Music: Edgardo Moreno

People Watching

GYD Red Company: Jillian Alac, Alexandra de Jong, Grace GillOrme, Audrey Lawson, Molly Linder, Ava Martin,  Maia Schneider- Fields, Quinn Stewart, Kate Thompson, Maren Wegner, Audrey Withers.

Choreographer: Emmett Bradshaw in collaboration with the dancers and Kai Fitzpatrick

Music: Last Birthday by 7038634357, 1997 by Småland, Flashlight by 7038634357

Outpace The Dawn 

Rhapsody: Ciera Bisch, Fran Eisenhuth, Laura Eisenhuth, Naomi Ellis, Mikayla Erison, Jessica Gu, Elizabeth Hofer, Aleks Kangur, Kayla Rankine, Weldon Scott, Marina Simonović, Ashlynne Uttley.

Choreographer: Ciera Bisch & Marina Simonović

Music: De Selby Part 1 & 2, Hozier

Rhythm and Roots

GYD Company: Jillian Alac, Sasha Baldwin, Alexandra de Jong, Grace GillOrme, Kanchani Karunaratne, Audrey Lawson, Chloe LeBlanc, Molly Linder, Ava Martin, Iris Moers, Audrey Richardson, Loressa Sadiku, Maia Schneider- Fields, Quinn Stewart, Kate Thompson, Katy Thomson- Bayne, Maren Wegner, Audrey Withers, Kaiya Wohlgemut

Choreographer: Kween

Music: Mamito’s Calypso

ONE/ OF / TWO

Dust and Soul

Dancers: Nadia Dardano and Angelina Da Silva 

Choreographer: Willem Sadler

Music: Sofie Birch, Johan Carøe, Kendrick Lamar, DANGERDOOM

Sound of a City

GYD Company: Sasha Baldwin, Kanchani Karunaratne, Chloe LeBlanc, Iris Moers, Audrey Richardson, Loressa Sadiku, Katy Thomson- Bayne, Kaiya Wohlgemut

Choreographer: Georgia Simms

Music: Beijing by Patrick Watson