Sue
BalintSue Balint is a playwright who has collaborated with artists across Canada as well as Australia and Europe. Locally, her work includes Body Geometry – The Seventh Angel (Theatre Centre/Passe Muraille), Visiting Aphrasia (4Play Festival) and Pagan Love Songs for the Uninitiated (Summerworks). She’s also been a member of Factory Theatre’s Playwright’s Lab. As a founding member of Theatrefront, Sue wrote the Dora-nominated fforward and continues her work on the company’s first international collaboration, The Sarajevo Project.
Most recently, Sue has been connecting dots between sacred architecture, environmental design and ritual. In her spare time she attends Civil War reenactments in Virginia.
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David Duclos
David has worked in the arts for three decades, in disciplines ranging from graphic design to contemporary music to independent theatre and dance. From 1992 to 2002 he managed the Theatre Centre, beginning as General Manager and ending as Artistic Director. More recently, David has been working as a freelance designer and production manager on projects like bluemouth inc.’s American Standard, David Buchbinder’s Shurum Burum Jazz Circus, and the Carlos Bulosan Theatre Company’s production of The Romance of Magno Rubio.
David Duclos has studied painting with Takao Tanabe and Molly Lamb Bobak. He has studied light design with Andrea Lundy, Jan Komarek and Rebecca Picherack. He is looking forward to the show that will combine these two worlds perfectly and is thankful to his collaborators for sharing the challenge.
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Katherine Duncanson
Interdisciplinary artist Katherine Duncanson is involved in the creation and performance of dance, music and theatre with an ever-expanding array of Toronto-based dance artists, theatre artists, performance artists, visual artists, writers, musicians and clowns. She has been a member of the interdisciplinary collective, Urge, since 1995.
As well as being very active in Toronto, Katherine has performed and taught across Canada at festivals and events such as Women In View (Vancouver); High Performance Rodeo (Calgary); The New Music Festival (Winnipeg); The Canada Dance Festival (Ottawa); Super Micmac (Montreal); Suddenly Listen (Halifax); The Sound Symposium (St. John's) and so on.
Currently creating a body of solo work that integrates text, extended voice, movement and song, Katherine also enjoys her work as a music educator, vocal director, and creative facilitator.
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Natasha Doyon
Natasha Doyon is a painter who creates large-scale mixed-media pieces. She explores the essence of each figure’s sexuality, identity, flesh, blood, and bones. She has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Additionally, she has worked on several theater and dance projects.
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Erin Klee
Erin Klee, Administrator of DNA, graduated from MacMurray College in 2003 with majors in Theatre, Psychology and Spanish and minors in English and Liberal Arts. Her theatre experience includes directing, acting, dancing, stage management, dramaturgy and lighting. In recent years, she has worked with the California Shakespeare Festival, University Theatre (Madison, WI) and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Hillar Liitoja
Hillar Liitoja, Artistic Director of DNA, is thrilled that David Duclos accepted the commission to create this installation and is delighted to once again be painting with him.
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Viv Moore
Viv Moore has been performing and choreographing (dancing and acting) both collaboratively and as a solo artist, as well as teaching and coaching movement for many years, in dance, theatre, film and video in England, Sweden, Australia and Canada.
Viv co-founded Remote Control with Dave Wilson in 1979 working with community dance (RNIB, Deaf and Partial Hearing) in London, England. She received a Harold (Independent Theatre 1998-99), Paula Citron fFIDA (Dance Fringe) Award (1999) for Bogie Woman and was nominated for a Dora for Body Geometry, the 7th Angel (2002).
Viv teaches Dance & Movement in the Film & TV programme at Humber College, sings with the Boychoir of Lesbos, clogs with Half-Crown Cloggers, and dances with Luscious Bellies. A recent highlight was dancing in Denise Fujiwara’s The Conference of the Birds.
Upcoming: The Stronger ….A Variation (Theatre Rusticle) at the Theatre Fringe and Blood, Faith & Floodwaters (FemFest, Winnipeg). Taking M.A. in Dance.
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