February 26, 27 and 28 at 8pm
Tickets $22 | $18
Box Office : 416 -367 -1800
Dancemakers’ Centre for Creation
The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, The Cannery, Bldg. 58, Studio 313. (directions)

“Livingstone has a fierceness about her on stage. Her gaze is focused and her body alert and intelligent.”
– Philip Szporer, The Dance Current.
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In a striking and surprising solo, Livingstone examines social and performative ‘roles’– the traits they share and fascinations they hold. There are ways you behave at work and ways you behave at a party, just as there are ways you behave in ballet and ways you behave in conceptual dance.

After successes in Vancouver, Montreal and Europe, this is the first Toronto showing of this important and iconoclastic artist.   

“The world of The Part is a place in which the subtle twisting of normative conventions has spun completely out of control, in which all the re-invention of a lifetime is uncomfortably crammed into one hour, never quite fitting, always threatening to collapse inwards upon itself or outwards towards the audience. A world in which the conventional roles of seduction never quite seduce, instead sliding freely towards unexpected realms of identity-shifting confusion.

Because here is the stupid, fucking deal about modern life: it is difficult to get anything done in this world without auditioning. And it is difficult to audition without playing a part. And the world of The Part revels in the polymorphous perversity of these tenuous facts. While at the same time completely, and gloriously, rejecting them.” – Jacob Wren, Theatre artist / writer. PDF of full text