Dance Performance
Victoria Mata
Sunday, June 19th
DOORS OPEN: 5:30 PM ET
EVENT STARTS: 6:00 PM ET
918 Bathurst
Please note: We regret that this venue is NOT accessible, as there are several stairs to access the building and no elevators.
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Note: This event is for ALL AGES
This event is offered as a DOUBLE FEATURE with Batucada Carioca. Your ticket counts for both performances.
Victoria Mata is a Venezuelan-Canadian settler in T’Karonto. Poly-lingual choreographer, dance artist and activist with a background in expressive arts therapy. Mata’s career was first sculpted by pedagogic, self-directed training, which proceeded with training under internationally renowned choreographers. Mata’s sensibility to inclusion and border stories is due to her eclectic upbringing in three continents before the age of fifteen. Intersectional, multi-framed community-arts and the abolishment of violence against women are some of Mata’s passion. She has intricately weaved these themes in her MFA in Contemporary Choreography and is foundational for some of her recognitions such as being a recipient of the Metcalf Foundation, a finalist of the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award and 7 Dora nominations. Mata deeply believes in the arts as a core and tangible mode of sustaining and transforming the paradigms of oppressive tropes to populate a sphere of discourse, play, exploration and possibility.
Accompanied by Nano Valverde
Nano Valverde is a Chilean-born musician/composer. He studied classical guitar and completed his musical studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music and later at York University in music composition. Nano has composed music for various projects. He is presently collaborating with various musicians, artists, and choreographers exploring sound textures using distinct timbres and rhythmic elements using both electronic and acoustic sound elements.