TILT sound + Motion

Photo Credit: WALTER LAI

Be firm, be fast, continue unbroken by Lesandra Dodson
Dancers: Bess Callard, Maxime Caya
Photo Credit: Walter Lai (April 2005)

History

TILT sound+motion is an innovative dance company devoted to the exploration of current themes and cutting edge choreographic works by some of Canada’s most important crafters of dance. Operating under the umbrella of the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre, TILT was launched on the National Arts Centre Stage to critical acclaim at the 2002 Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa, and has since performed for audiences throughout Ontario. Each season, a new performance is shaped that fuses contemporary dance with multimedia elements including music, full-cyclorama video and theatre. Led by Artistic Director Deborah Lundmark, the company’s five exceptionally talented young dance artists comprise Ontario’s only contemporary dance company performing specifically for teens and young adults, with curriculum-linked performances and in-school workshops.
 

On the successful side, the festival saw the launch of TILT sound+motion [performing] Lesandra Dodson’s brilliant ‘kuere’, a fast and furious whirlwind of physical curiosity inspired by Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions 

 Paula Citron, Globe and Mail, June 13, 2002.


Since its inception the company has staged creations by Louis Laberge-Côté, Marie Béland, Robert Abubo, Sasha Ivanochko, Marie-Julie Asselin, Peter Chin, Bill Coleman, Deborah Dunn, Jasmine Inns, Heidi Strauss, and Lesandra Dodson, TILT's Co-Artistic Director from 2002-2004.


Mandate

TILT sound+motion came together to reflect and interpret the issues of contemporary dance artists and to provide a foundation of experience and experimentation for the emerging dancers it employs. The company has developed a repertoire of risk-taking dance works fused with elements of live music, theatre and video. The results are entertaining productions geared towards youth and university-aged audiences, presented in theatres across the province. TILT’s dancers aggressively engage themes, subject matter and styles of movement and presentation that are common to those beginning the journey of adulthood. In addition to performing, TILT offers workshops, outreach programs and creation-based residencies to the communities the company performs in. TILT also maintains a program for general audiences.
 

This programme is not only a tremendous idea, it is essential. We need to bring arts to young people, otherwise our theatres will be dark in years to come…The residency program will go a long way to creating that appetite.

Michael Grit, Sanderson Centre, Brantford
Host venue for March & November 2003 Residencies


Track record

Now in its fifth season, TILT sound+motion's performance credits include: DanceWorks Mainstage Series (Harbourfront Centre Theatre), Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival (River Run Centre), DanceOntario Weekend (Premiere Dance Theatre), Ryerson University, Brantford's Sanderson Centre, Peterborough's Showplace Performance Centre, Brock University's Sean O'Sullivan Theatre (St Catharines), and two seasons as part of the DanceWorks CoWorks Series. Over the last five years TILT has performed for up to 12,000 students, educators and general audience members per season.


Promoting emerging artists

In keeping with its mandate to encourage emerging dance talent, TILT sound+motion holds choreographic workshops for its dancers. The company provides its artists with workspace for their creation period and choreographic mentorship from a senior artist. The workshops, which culminate in studio showcases, are designed to guide and promote emerging choreographic talent.

As a resident company of 509 DANCE, TILT sound+motion is housed in one of the country’s most important artistic facilities, a home for the intergenerational creation, transmission and preservation of Canadian modern and contemporary dance. Through its specialized focus on dance for youth, the company is helping build not only their own audiences of tomorrow, but those for our community’s adult dance programs today. As a creation-based ensemble whose activity is designed for public performance, the TILT sound+motion company-based experience strengthens young dancers links to one another, to their art and to their public.


Our studios & offices are located at:

509 Parliament Street
Toronto, Ontario  M4X 1P3
Canada
Tel: 416.924.5657
Fax: 416.924.4141

e-mail: tilt@ccdt.org


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