Saturday, November 22, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West
Join us for a joyful day of video-art BINGE WATCHING. Two different screenings of new work by Margaret Dragu sandwich a guided movement practice for artists. Wear your jammies, drink ginger ale and eat popcorn ALL DAY!!!
FADO Performance Art Centre and V tape are thrilled to present Your New Normal: An Afternoon With Margaret Dragu, as part of FADO’s on-going Walk-And-Talk performance series.
2:00 pm: screening, NEW NORMAL: an embodied novel
3:00 pm: supportTHEsupport (movement practice) w/ snacks & chats & PAJAMAS!
4:00 pm: screening, TICK AND TALK OF COMMON TIME
PROGRAMME
2:00 pm: NEW NORMAL: an embodied novel (2025, 45:00)
“An embodied novel is a 13-part multi-modal project documenting Dragu’s experiences on public transit while waiting for/recovering from two hip replacement surgeries. This series of poetic-prose stories are articulated in the body as short videos produced by Dragu alongside her collaborators, Justine A. Chambers (choreography) and E. Kage (score), as well as in text in her publication by the same name.” (Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora, C.L.A.M.)
3:00 pm: supportTHEsupport (TORONTO VERSION)
supportTHEsupport is an art experiment that began September 2019 during the LIVE! Biennale in Vancouver. supportTHEsupport appears to be dance/fitness classes (live-in-person and live-on-ZOOM ) with members in Vancouver, Montréal, Toronto, Berlin, Hanover and Copenhagen. But it is actually a living studio of amazing and creative artists who help each other make art happen.
***Feel free to bring your own yoga mat, towel, blocks.***
4:00 pm: TICK AND TALK OF COMMON TIME (video, 33 min)
“An opus of five variations and five entr’actes. Playing with the idea of TikTok dance trends, the variations feature fifteen live Vancouver-based dancers, three Toronto-based performers and many more [of whom are] dancing over Zoom, as well as several TikTok dance videos. Each variation presents a new choreography set to compositions from five different Canadian composers. The videos of the dancers are often in split screen or overlapping one another in the mainframe. The entr’actes feature improvisational dance by Dragu and Justine A. Chambers set to the sounds of live improvised vocal transcription.” (Nathaniel Marchand, Western Front)
Image credits: home page, NEW NORMAL: an embodied novel, by Margaret Dragu (2025); above, photo of Margaret Dragu by Dorte Burmester Wium.
Co-presented with FADO Performance Art Centre
