Your Timing is Perfect and other wall works

A new performance by Jenn Goodwin

With collaborators/performers:
Valerie Calam, Luke Garwood, Kristy Kennedy, Jared MacSween, Zoja Smutny and Heidi Strauss. Roxanne Luchak (video), Laura Nanni (dramaturg) and Camilla Singh (consultant).

Friday, January 10, 2014: 6:00 – 10:00 pm

Followed by reception:
January 11 -12, 2014: 2:00 – 6:00 pm

Gallery TPW
1256 Dundas St. W.

Continuing our interest in the relation between liveness and images, Gallery TPW presents Your Timing is Perfect and other wall works, a new work by Toronto choreographer Jenn Goodwin. Working across disciplinary institutions, Your Timing is Perfect was developed within the context of a lens-based gallery, traditionally imagined as a space for wall works. Through the conceptual frame of portraiture, the piece explores the possibility of connection across time — with strangers and friends, performers and audiences, between a sense of self and collective and the walls of a room. Performers in the work see themselves and their stories as objects, icons and images, they examine practices of looking, how we see and are asked to see. An intimate, 360 degree, durational performance/movement experience, audiences are welcome to come and go from the work at their leisure. Stay for ten minutes or for four hours.

Special Thanks to Jeremy Mimnagh, Walter Willems and Ame Henderson and The Theatre Centre, for their input in the development of the work.

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Choreographer Biography

Jenn Goodwin is a Toronto based dance artist. Her dance work has been performed across Canada, and in New York, Amsterdam, Australia and Brussels. Her short dance films have been screened at festivals across Canada, in New York and Europe. She uses the body, humor, video, visual art, sound, song, popular and less popular culture as inspiration. She often utilizes narrative, stories and text from every day conversation to the poetic. She presents work in diverse venues such as clubs, galleries, bars, parks, living rooms, parking lots and streets. Goodwin is one half of the band MORTIFIED with Camilla Singh and is a programming supervisor/artistic producer with Toronto Special Events/Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.