Contemporary Dance Theatre Created by Kylie Thompson

DIGITAL PROGRAM

Collaborators

Choreography: Kylie Thompson (she/her)

Costumes: Val Calam (she/her)

Music: nomvdslvnd (he/him), additional mixing by Kylie Thompson

Lighting: Simon Clemo (he/him)

Projection and video design: Kylie Thompson

Marketing: Adri Chavez (she/her)

Stage Manager: Zoe Brown

Spoken Text: written by Kiera Breaugh

About:

Femmillennial is the brainchild of Toronto based Dance Artist Kylie Thompson. After its debut at the 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival, the show will premiere internationally at the 2023 Orlando Fringe Festival and Nationally at Vancouver Fringe. Drawing upon themes of decoding the modern femme persona, identity, and the notion of ‘work’, join us on this abstract and intimate physical theatre installation.

Cast

Claire Whitaker (she/her)

@_claireelovie is a dance artist based in Toronto and after graduating The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, she has attended dance programs including the Gaga Intensive at Orsolina 28 (Italy, 2019), learning Batsheva repertoire and techniques from Ohad Naharin. Claire has also attended TransFormation Danse (Montréal, 2017) and online Dance Church classes organized by Kate Wallich (2020/21). Over the past couple years Claire has worked and performed under Colleen Snell (Fringe, 2018), Laurence Lemieux (2019-22) and is a member of the Wind In The Leaves collective under Charles C. Smith. Claire adores meaderous walks, singing show tunes and is excited for audiences to see and connect with “Femmillennial”.

Kiera Breaugh (she/her)

@kierabreaugh is a dancer/choreographer whose style lives at the intersection of contemporary and hip hop. In December of 2019, Kiera graduated from LMU in Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. While in LA, she was a member of several LA based companies including: the Young Lions, Immabeast, Immabreathe and MashUp Contemporary Dance Company. Since she returned to Toronto, Kiera performed “Barely Black” for the Dance Matters A Woman’s Work (‘20), became an Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow at the School at Jacob’s Pillow (‘21) and taught and choreographed at studios across the GTA. Kiera is excited to perform in front of a live audience at the Fringe Festival.

Dana Macdonald (she/her)

@dana.macdonald is a mover and collaborator based out of Tkaronto, (Treaty 13 Territory) Ontario. A 2018 Graduate from Toronto Metropolitan University with a BFA in fine Arts – Dance, Dana has the opportunity to work, train and learn repertoire from many international and Toronto based companies including but not limited to; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Transcen|dance Projects, Gadfly, Alias Dance projects, Pro Arte Danza, Alyssa Pires Dance Projects, Kaeja D’dance, Human Body Expressions, Frog in Hand and CHUTHIS. Currently Dana is excited to be working with Kylie Thompson and return to Transcen|dances “A Grimm Night” production in 2023.

 

Creator Bio

Kylie Thompson (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary creator, performer and educator residing in Toronto, Ontario (Treaty 13 territory). She is committed to ongoing education, conversation and action towards equality and decolonisation of Western Dance practices. Her body of work and practice is physical, collaborative and bridges between stage and screen. Kylie believes that play and experimentation are crucial; and is dedicated to a life of learning and creating.

 

How to support

Thank you for coming to the show! Want to further support this work? Make a donation to our GoFundMe Campaign

Word of Mouth is the most important advertising! If you enjoyed the show, please share it with a friend! Spread the word on social media:

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Twitter: @itskyliethomps1

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You can also support by purchasing our FEMMILLENNIAL DAD HAT

Partners and Sponsors

THANK YOU!

I'd like to use this space to thank past collaborators, who've all made special contributions to this work over the past 3 years. Katherine Semchuk, Kirsten Sullivan, Kurumi Yoshimoto, Alyssa Petrolo, Mackenzie Carlson, Krista Newey and Julia Cosentino. Huge thank you to my husband Evan Wallman for being a giant source of support. I love you! To Dana, Kiera, Claire - MERDE - you all inspire me. Go off!

KT

KTD THANKS OUR GOFUNDME SUPPORTERS!

Liza Wallman

Dawn Wallman

Corynne Bisson

Katie DeCaire

Alyssa Owsiany

Sarah Cherewko

Elaine Schiller

Michelle McCulloch

Hailey McCron

Jamie Galt

Evan Wallman