The Theatre Centre presents
FREE FALL ’12
PERFORMANCE WITHOUT A NET
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF GROUNDBREAKING ART
March 24-31, 2012
FREE FALL is an eight-day biennial national and international
performance festival featuring new and hybrid works by emerging and
established artists from across Canada. From March 24-31, 2012 FREE FALL
’12 will host ten productions with artists from four cities at seven
venues in Toronto.
Co-curated by The Theatre Centre’s Artistic Director Franco Boni and
Praxis Theatre’s Michael Wheeler, FREE FALL ’12 investigates shared and
individual experiences through theatre, installation, performance art,
new media, lectures and online performance.
Highlights include the return of Theatre Replacement to examine the
hilarious and disturbing nature of the average YouTube commenter in
WEETUBE 5400, Liza Balkan’s documentary theatre piece OUT THE WINDOW and
FREE FALL will bring audiences outside of the theatre with a walking
tour, INVISIBLE TORONTO, and a Twitter-fueled voyage on the 501
Streetcar line, ROUTE 501 REVISITED.
FREE FALL ’12 will also host industry panels and events such as the
Chicago/Toronto Performance Summit where cultural players from these
sister cities will share ideas about the process of creating and
presenting independent art.
FREE FALL ’12 PROGRAM
A LAST RESORT by Rough House Productions (Vancouver)
A multimedia performance in English and Spanish that intimately explores
the lengths that two people will go to for a perfect life just beyond
the horizon.
BABYLONIA by Radix Theatre (Vancouver)
Babylonia is an interactive mixed reality presentation that will begin
online leading up to the live performance, and unfold in real time at
the show. Log onto
www.babylonia.ca beginning March 19th, 2012 and Prepare for Upload.
DOGGIEWOGGIEZ! POOCHIEWOOCHIEZ! By Everything is Terrible! (Chicago)
A remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s cult classic film The Holy Mountain,
comprised entirely of reclaimed VHS footage of dogs. (Co-presented in
partnership with The Drake Hotel)
INVISIBLE TORONTO: A Walking Tour with Falen Johnson (Toronto)
Native theatre artist Falen Johnson invites audiences to look at the
Queen Street West and Ossington Avenue area from an Indigenous
perspective. This walking tour focuses on the visibility/invisibility of
Indigenous history in the city of Toronto.
INVISIBLITY by The Theatre Centre’s Youth Program (Toronto)
Students from the Toronto District School Board Media Arts Co-op program
work with playwright Yvette Nolan and Charles Street Video to create an
original video exhibit about their community in The Drake Hotel’s new
art community space The Drake Lab.
OUT THE WINDOW by Liza Balkan and The Window Collective (Toronto)
Out The Window is a powerful piece of documentary theatre that charts
playwright Liza Balkan‘s journey through the justice system after
witnessing a man’s final moments during an altercation with Toronto
police from her apartment window in August 2000.
THE PALIMPSEST PROJECT 1.3 by re[public] in/decency (Toronto/Chicago)
A palimpsest is a piece of parchment or wax tablet that has been written
on, and then scraped or washed clean, and used again. This ancient
method created a unique phenomenon whereby historical texts were layered
onto one another such that the original writing can be discerned
through layers of new data. The Palimpsest Project is a performance
lecture featuring Toronto artist Coman Poon and Chicago artist Erica
Mott, who will layer their work to examine artistic boundaries and
collaboration.
ROUTE 501 REVISITED by Jonathan Goldsbie (Toronto)
This end-to-end ride on the 501 Queen streetcar is a guided tour
conducted entirely via Twitter. From Neville Park to Long Branch
Jonathan Goldsbie will lead participants in a discussion about the
happenings inside and outside the streetcar windows – but no talking
allowed.
THAT TREE YOU CLAIMED YOUR THRONE by Ali El-Darsa (Montreal)
Montreal-based artist Ali El-Darsa uses multiple disciplines to reflect
on his personal experience of home and displacement. The artist
challenges audiences to listen and evaluate the way we process the
repetition of information, and the way the information loses its essence
over time.
WEETUBE 5400 by Theatre Replacement (Vancouver)
James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto of Theatre Replacement take the
publicly posted comments from the most notorious YouTube videos and
place them in familiar dramatic settings to create hilarious and
disturbing dialogue.
FREE FALL ’12 > Performance without a net.
The Theatre Centre presents
FREE FALL ’12
Saturday, March 24 – Saturday, March 31
The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West
Studio 3 at The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West
The Drake Lab, 1142 Queen Street West
The Drake Underground, 1150 Queen Street West
gallerywest, 1172 Queen Street West
Plus the Queen and Ossington neighbourhood and 501 Streetcar Line
Tickets: PWYC-$25 Festival Combo Passes: $23-$45
Tickets can be purchased by calling 416.538.0988
or by visiting
www.freefall12.eventbrite.ca
Full schedule is attached.
www.theatrecentre.org/freefall
