INDEPENDENT DANCERS
in partnership with
artists
&aceartinc.
nude or not
PEOPLE FIGURE AGAIN AND AGAIN
dance + sketch happening cycle 2023
#1: Saturday, July 15
#2: Thursday, August 17
@aceartinc., 206 Princess St.
DROP-IN figuring 6-8pm, materials provided &
closing performance at 8:30pm
An encore presentation cycle of 2022’s PEOPLE FIGURE dance + draw happening!
For 2023, visual artists Karen ARMSTRONG, Jeff PEELING,
Robert SIM, Derek BRUECKNER and Shereen RAMPRASHAD put pencil to the paper LIVE
to sketch the spontaneous human figuring of dancers
Sophie MILORD*, Shayla RUDD and Ian MOZDZEN
in this DURATIONAL dance + draw happening.***
Observe figure upon figure sketched out in response to the human figure in figuration.
This will serve to prepare us for a CLOSING COMPOSITION.
Sketching will pause at approximately 8:00pm.
What follows: a timed 25-minute INSTANT COMPOSITION dance + sketch
awash in the evening’s flurry of figures and figuring.
(***Please note: artist line-up varies by date.)
WANT TO DRAW?
Figure poses long/short & still/moving by PEOPLE; 6-8pm, drawing materials provided;
observe the drawings of evening’s line-up of visual artists and figuring artists.
WANT TO BE A SPECTATOR?
Observe 6-8; then, at 8:30pm, witness a CLOSING 25-minute DANCE/SKETCH PERFORMANCE
by evening’s figuring artists in call/response with the evening’s visual artists.
$donate/reserve on EVENTBRITE (search “PEOPLE FIGURE AGAIN AND AGAIN”)
INFO: admin@aceart.org / aceart.org 206 Princess Street has 3 steps up from the sidewalk.
Wheelchair ramp access is available through the 216 Princess Street entrance.
Please bring a cushion or folding chair to sit on if necessary; some chairs are also available at aceartinc.
We are on Treaty 1 Territory
On the original lands of Anishinabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and on the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. We offer our respect and gratitude to the caretakers of this land.
