Susan Cash with dancers Nicole Rose Bond and Sky Fairchild-Waller (May 2022)
Susan Cash- an accomplished choreographer and sought-after teacher and mentor, Susan Cash has been performing and presenting her own work, both on the alternative theatre circuit and in formal performance venues across Canada and the USA. Her choreographic work spans many different dance genres from theatrical works to site-specific creations, from music videos to dance films. Susan’s dances reveal her sensitive connection to the environment as she continues to explore notions of space and place, meaning and relationship in her teaching, research, writing, film and choreographic work. These investigations have taken her to perform in Prague, choreograph in New York, a commission in Guatemala and to collaborate in Brazil. Susan is an Associate Professor of the Department of Dance at York University Toronto Canada. She teaches in the area of choreography, performance and movement analysis. She is a certified Gyrotonic/Gyrokinesis teacher and a certified movement analyst (NY).
During Susan’s residency at Woodland Farm, she will be creating a dancer film: Sweet Sorrow; about “partings” of all kinds, from people and things we love as individuals, communities, and nations. It is about that excruciating collective feeling of tearing hearts to the anticipation of exquisite joy in the thoughts of reuniting. For if there weren’t a morrow the present might be too unbearable.
Susan Cash- an accomplished choreographer and sought-after teacher and mentor, Susan Cash has been performing and presenting her own work, both on the alternative theatre circuit and in formal performance venues across Canada and the USA. Her choreographic work spans many different dance genres from theatrical works to site-specific creations, from music videos to dance films. Susan’s dances reveal her sensitive connection to the environment as she continues to explore notions of space and place, meaning and relationship in her teaching, research, writing, film and choreographic work. These investigations have taken her to perform in Prague, choreograph in New York, a commission in Guatemala and to collaborate in Brazil. Susan is an Associate Professor of the Department of Dance at York University Toronto Canada. She teaches in the area of choreography, performance and movement analysis. She is a certified Gyrotonic/Gyrokinesis teacher and a certified movement analyst (NY).
During Susan’s residency at Woodland Farm, she will be creating a dancer film: Sweet Sorrow; about “partings” of all kinds, from people and things we love as individuals, communities, and nations. It is about that excruciating collective feeling of tearing hearts to the anticipation of exquisite joy in the thoughts of reuniting. For if there weren’t a morrow the present might be too unbearable.
Nicole Rose Bond began her formal training at York University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Dance cum laude. In her professional career we have seen her dance in works by many esteemed choreographers including Peggy Baker, Patricia Beatty, Tom Brouillette, Susan Cash, Bill Coleman, David Earle, Danny Grossman, Ryan Graham Hinds, Christopher House, James Kudelka, Learie McNicholl, Andrea Nann, Yvonne Ng, John Oswald, Peter Quanz, Peter Randazzo and Andrea Spaziani.
As course director at York University Nicole has taught Graham Technique and Contemporary Dance for the Department of Dance and has taught for The National Ballet School, Arts Umbrella and Modus Operandi and the Toronto District School Board. As part of outreach initiatives through Toronto Dance Theatre, The National Ballet of Canada’s YOU Dance Program and Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Nicole has taught in Toronto, Dryden, Vancouver, Moncton and Whitehorse. Nicole has also served on the Toronto Arts Council Advisory Panel and as a member of the Dance Collection Danse ‘Encore: Hall of Fame’ Committee.
Nicole’s repertoire with Peggy Baker Dance projects includes dancing in: Land|Body|Breath at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the premiere in Toronto of Who We Are In The Dark with subsequent performances in Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, Whitehorse and Mexico and The Netherlands in 2020; and Her Body As Words in September of 2021.
As course director at York University Nicole has taught Graham Technique and Contemporary Dance for the Department of Dance and has taught for The National Ballet School, Arts Umbrella and Modus Operandi and the Toronto District School Board. As part of outreach initiatives through Toronto Dance Theatre, The National Ballet of Canada’s YOU Dance Program and Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Nicole has taught in Toronto, Dryden, Vancouver, Moncton and Whitehorse. Nicole has also served on the Toronto Arts Council Advisory Panel and as a member of the Dance Collection Danse ‘Encore: Hall of Fame’ Committee.
Nicole’s repertoire with Peggy Baker Dance projects includes dancing in: Land|Body|Breath at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the premiere in Toronto of Who We Are In The Dark with subsequent performances in Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, Whitehorse and Mexico and The Netherlands in 2020; and Her Body As Words in September of 2021.
Sky Fairchild-Waller (b. Whistler British Columbia) -an artist and consultant based in Toronto. An alum of Canada's National Ballet School, he received an HBFA and HBA from the School of Art, Media, Performance & Design at York University, followed by graduate studies at the University of Toronto. For 25 years he performed in work by Reid Anderson, Perry Bard, James Kudelka, Yoshi Oida, Tino Sehgal, Twyla Tharp, and in world premieres by Diane Borsato, Susan Cash, Brendan Fernandes, David Frankovich, John Greyson, Will Kwan, Derek Liddington, Heather Nicol, Tracey Norman, Lucy Rupert, and Sashar Zarif. His live and lens-based work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and presented in Assisi, Beijing, Boston, Brooklyn, Cairo, Calgary, Cologne, Montréal, New Delhi, São Paulo, Toronto, Turin, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Zürich. A former Metcalf Foundation intern, he served on the Board of Directors of Dance Media Group/ Groupe Danse Média, publisher of Canada's Dance Magazine The Dance Current, was a founding member of The Love-In's Board of Directors, and has contributed to the Canadian Theatre Review, ADONE Magazine, and CIUT 89.5FM.
Marcello Di Cintio (June 2022)
Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades which won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense, winner of the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize. Di Cintio’s magazine writing has appeared in appeared in publications such as The International New York Times, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic and Afar. Di Cintio has served as a writer-in-residence at the Calgary Public Library, the University of Calgary and the Palestine Writing workshop. Di Cintio’s newest book is Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers.
During Marcello's time at Woodland Farm, he will be working on his fifth book of creative nonfiction - a project about the secret lives of migrant workers in Canada.
Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades which won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense, winner of the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize. Di Cintio’s magazine writing has appeared in appeared in publications such as The International New York Times, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic and Afar. Di Cintio has served as a writer-in-residence at the Calgary Public Library, the University of Calgary and the Palestine Writing workshop. Di Cintio’s newest book is Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers.
During Marcello's time at Woodland Farm, he will be working on his fifth book of creative nonfiction - a project about the secret lives of migrant workers in Canada.
Due to an unexpected opening we are hosting Mini- Residencies in July 2022
- Peter Hatch brings artists into the Woodland Farm gardens to develop an outdoor site-specific sound piece.
- Susan Cash returns with her dancers to film her piece "Sweet Sorrow"
- Gwenyth Dobie takes the opportunity to workshop a new site-specific immersive work "A Criminal Waste of Time"
Jesi Jordan (August 2022)
A multi-disciplinary artist with a strong focus on metamorphosis, she has performed at the Los Angeles Archive, Flux Factory New York, Ontario Art Gallery, and Material Art Fair and has recently completed a solo show at the museum Galeria Libertad and a group show at the MAZ Museum in Mexico. www.jesi.ca
During her residency at Woodland Farm, Jesi will be creating performative video work in collaboration with Mother Nature.
A multi-disciplinary artist with a strong focus on metamorphosis, she has performed at the Los Angeles Archive, Flux Factory New York, Ontario Art Gallery, and Material Art Fair and has recently completed a solo show at the museum Galeria Libertad and a group show at the MAZ Museum in Mexico. www.jesi.ca
During her residency at Woodland Farm, Jesi will be creating performative video work in collaboration with Mother Nature.
Eleanor vanVeen and Luke Gruntz (September 2022)
Eleanor van Veen is a Tkaronto-based mover, collaborator, performer, and instructor. She has performed works by Alysa Pires, Hanna Kiel, Igor Bacovich, Malgorzata Nowacka-May, Meghann Michalsky, Naishi Wang, Robert Glumbek, Susana Pous, and Sylvie Moquin, and has worked with Human Body Expression, Nostos Collectives, ProArteDanza, and Project InTandem. She has presented work independently and collaboratively at Nostos’ showing ‘let’s get physical’, Dance Ontario Dance Weekend and Market Dances at Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal. Acting as a vessel for artistic visions, she recognizes her privilege to freely move, and she is a vigorous, expansive, precise, supple, curious, and sweaty mover.
Eleanor van Veen is a Tkaronto-based mover, collaborator, performer, and instructor. She has performed works by Alysa Pires, Hanna Kiel, Igor Bacovich, Malgorzata Nowacka-May, Meghann Michalsky, Naishi Wang, Robert Glumbek, Susana Pous, and Sylvie Moquin, and has worked with Human Body Expression, Nostos Collectives, ProArteDanza, and Project InTandem. She has presented work independently and collaboratively at Nostos’ showing ‘let’s get physical’, Dance Ontario Dance Weekend and Market Dances at Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal. Acting as a vessel for artistic visions, she recognizes her privilege to freely move, and she is a vigorous, expansive, precise, supple, curious, and sweaty mover.
Luke Gruntz is a touring musician, songwriter, and producer from Cobourg, Ontario; most well-known for his work as the lead singer and guitarist of the 2-piece rock band cleopatrick. Following the collapse of the global live touring industry in 2020, Luke found solace in the development of a new sound beyond his work in cleopatrick, through works in granular synthesis, drum sequencing, field-sampling, and ambient looping.
Throughout their residency at Woodland Farm, Eleanor and Luke will be researching, creating, and capturing an inter-arts duet that explores the concepts of loneliness, isolation, and aloneness through movement, sound, flesh, and technology.
Throughout their residency at Woodland Farm, Eleanor and Luke will be researching, creating, and capturing an inter-arts duet that explores the concepts of loneliness, isolation, and aloneness through movement, sound, flesh, and technology.
Coleen Shirin MacPherson (October 2022)
Coleen Shirin MacPherson is an international theatre artist, playwright and director based in Toronto. She trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and runs an all-female physical theatre company called Open Heart Surgery Theatre. Her work with the company involves devising new work that is relevant to the moment; multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and often experiments with multiple languages and forms.
She has toured work internationally to Egypt, Poland, France, UK, U.S.A and China; and has worked wit companies across Canada, in the UK, Northern Ireland and France. RECENT: Erased, a film-play was developed across borders during quarantine (La MaMa, NYC and Angell Gallery, Toronto); This Is Why We Live, US premiere in New York City at La MaMa, part of the 58th season; Assistant Director to Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu for Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey (Factory Theatre).
She is currently Playwright in Residence at Cahoots Theatre (Toronto); part of the Bedrock Creators' Initiative with Factory Theatre (Toronto) and has been developing an audio-fiction podcast - a sonic theatre - called Wild Women with playwright, Martha Ross (Digital Now and Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts /CBC). She is also currently developing her play, Erased, a new work in collaboration with Theatre Passe Muraille and York University. Coleen teaches Playwriting at The University of Toronto and is currently Assistant Director at the Stratford Festival for Antoni Cimolino's Richard III in the 2022 season.
Coleen is delighted to be Artist in Residence this Fall at Woodland Farm, to develop her solo play, Searching for Aimai, that focuses on the complexities of mixed race identity.
Some Images from the 2022 Artists in Residence at Woodland Farm
Coleen Shirin MacPherson is an international theatre artist, playwright and director based in Toronto. She trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and runs an all-female physical theatre company called Open Heart Surgery Theatre. Her work with the company involves devising new work that is relevant to the moment; multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and often experiments with multiple languages and forms.
She has toured work internationally to Egypt, Poland, France, UK, U.S.A and China; and has worked wit companies across Canada, in the UK, Northern Ireland and France. RECENT: Erased, a film-play was developed across borders during quarantine (La MaMa, NYC and Angell Gallery, Toronto); This Is Why We Live, US premiere in New York City at La MaMa, part of the 58th season; Assistant Director to Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu for Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey (Factory Theatre).
She is currently Playwright in Residence at Cahoots Theatre (Toronto); part of the Bedrock Creators' Initiative with Factory Theatre (Toronto) and has been developing an audio-fiction podcast - a sonic theatre - called Wild Women with playwright, Martha Ross (Digital Now and Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts /CBC). She is also currently developing her play, Erased, a new work in collaboration with Theatre Passe Muraille and York University. Coleen teaches Playwriting at The University of Toronto and is currently Assistant Director at the Stratford Festival for Antoni Cimolino's Richard III in the 2022 season.
Coleen is delighted to be Artist in Residence this Fall at Woodland Farm, to develop her solo play, Searching for Aimai, that focuses on the complexities of mixed race identity.
Some Images from the 2022 Artists in Residence at Woodland Farm
