https://balancingontheedge.ca/home daily 1.0 2023-06-07 https://balancingontheedge.ca/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://balancingontheedge.ca/about daily 0.75 2022-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627efeeba728cf4ccba00d06/f94cc179-2c0f-41f1-8f0f-39c613013282/Circus+Sessions+2019-June+30-39.jpg About Balancing On the Edge began as an ambitious one-off partnership between two Toronto-based collectives operating within disparate yet eminently compatible artforms. It has since evolved into a collaborative production company helmed by Rebecca Devi Leonard (founder of contemporary circus troupe A Girl In The Sky) and Cheryl Duvall and Ilana Waniuk (artistic directors of contemporary music ensemble Thin Edge New Music Collective). Meeting at the intersection of forward-looking composition and exploratory circus arts, Balancing On The Edge embraces theatre, dance, and multimedia to produce a visceral, egalitarian, and unclassifiable synthesis. Their audacious debut production was unveiled during the Harbourfront Centre's NextSteps Festival in 2016 and met with critical acclaim. Featuring poignant choreographic imagery alongside music by composers such as Nicole Lizée, David Lang, Nick Storring, and Iannis Xenakis. Stalwart experimental music magazine Musicworks featured the event as their Spring 2017 cover story. In said article, the publication's editor Jennie Punter described the collaboration as “provocative, thrilling and thought-provoking.” A Girl In The Sky Productions was conceived in 2003 and continues to produce intricate, boundary-pushing, and narrative-driven circus performances. Its founder Rebecca Leonard is an aerialist, actor, and choreographer, who has performed locally and internationally with circus companies from across Canada. Leonard was a Co-Producer/Artistic Director of the Contemporary Circus Arts Festival-Toronto, which was a catalyst for a multi-disciplinary outlook on the artform. She is deeply engaged with the national social circus community and has collaborated as a coach and organizer with Nunavik’s Cirqiniq (an Inuit youth focused social circus)—developed out of a partnership between Cirque du Soleil and the Kativik Regional Government, as well as locally with Toronto’s SoCirC and TTYL. Founded in 2011, Toronto's Thin Edge New Music Collective has emerged as one of Canada's foremost contemporary music ensembles, producing innovative and intricate programs, while engaging in unique and ambitious collaborations. Alongside their annual season, TENMC has travelled across Canada, Italy, Poland, Japan, Argentina, Germany, and Greece. Noted equally for their potent partnerships with revered composers (including Linda Catlin Smith, Sarah Hennies, Mick Barr, Elliott Sharp, Dai Fujikura, Jessie Cox and Barbara Monk Feldman), and nurturing of emerging voices, the group has commissioned over 70 new works in their quest to bring contemporary chamber century music to an ever-expanding listenership. The success of BOTE’s inaugural program cemented the group's commitment to exploring fundamental aspects of humanity—probing questions of identity, the body, and the all-too-permeable boundary between survival and evolution. Since its inception, Balancing On The Edge has received support from the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Harbourfront Centre NextSteps, Canada Council for the Arts, Steinway Piano Gallery Toronto, SOCAN Foundation and Arraymusic. 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Leonard, Natasha Danchenko, Brandy Leary, Holly Treddenick, Angola Murdoch, Diana Lopez, Rebecca Carney, Emily Hughes, Emmanuel Cyr, Sonia Norris, Erin Ball and Louis Wei-Chun Barbier showcasing a wide range of disciplines ranging from Aerial Rock, Fire and ladder to invented apparatus and object manipulation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627efeeba728cf4ccba00d06/0bc51925-c807-45a6-9ca8-32ace70a0371/Balancing+on+the+Edge+%28Harbourfrount+photos%29-47.jpg Inaugural 2016 Production - Our musical programme included works by: John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, David Lang, and Montreal-based Nicole Lizée, with world premieres by California-based Scott Rubin and Toronto’s own Nick Storring. BOTE featured lighting design by Joe Pagnan with live projections by Evan DeRushie and video by Jason J Brown. Balancing on the Edge aimed to investigate what it means to be pushed to the limit from a wide range of perspectives through a synthesis of theatre, dance, multi-media, new music and new circus. Photo credit: Kevin Green https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627efeeba728cf4ccba00d06/cd2bcd00-f61c-42cc-aee6-f0f700d3d1cf/DSC00996.JPG Inaugural 2016 Production - Cast/Crew Circus Artists: Rebecca Leonard (choreography/aerial bicycle), Natasha Danchenko (aerial bicycle), Brandy Leary (aerial rope), Holly Treddenick + Angola Murdoch (suspended ladder), Diana Lopez + Rebecca Carney (aerial rocks), Emily Hughes (aerial silks), Emmanuel Cyr (choreography), Louis Wei-Chun Barbier (juggling/dance), Sonia Norris (clown), Erin Ball (clown/aerial silks). Musicians: Thin Edge New Music Collective, Rachael Abramoff (viola), Suhashini Arulanandam (violin), Adam Cambell (percussion), Stacie Dunlop (soprano), Cheryl Duvall (piano), DJ P-Love (Turntables), Andrea Ludwig (mezzo sprano), Nathan Petitpas (percussion), Chelsea Shanoff (saxophone), Ilana Waniuk (violin), Dobrochna Zubek (cello). Ghost Bicycle Dancers: Eric Liu, Kelly Mullan, Dana Lerman, Rachel David, Sarah Stark, Jonathan Neville Hoining Chang, Emma De Bono, Meagan Gartlanster. Music: John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, David Lang, Nicole Lizée, Scott Rubin, Nick Storring. 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