Tiger Princess Dance Projects: Difference between revisions

The trio, Cypress in 2002 was Ng's first group work that constructed the choreography in an open studio and then later set constraints on the movement that gave rise to new movement and architectures of bodies.  Paula Citron of The Globe & Mail described the choreography as a weight bearing entanglement that gives rise to arresting images.  In Garam Shift, 2003, Ng used physical exhaustion as the constraint and in Serpentine Garden: another love story, created for Dusk Dances 2003, she devised costumes hooked to clotheslines for the two dancers.

Collection #2: VoyAge (2004) is a meditation on the extent to which our personal history holds us.  The set and installation consists of approximately 100 pairs of Ng's shoes laid out in a labyrinth. Collection #2 features an improvised score for cello and voice by Anne Bourne and has been performed in Toronto & New York.

For 2006, Ng's Signs, an evening's work was presented at the Harbourfront Theatre, Toronto consisting of two separate but related works, Paper Women & Emerald Lies.  The works are for seven women and were inspired by memories of her life as a student in an all-girls Catholic school in Singapore.  The seven dancers in Paper Women wear almost sheer, white pleated tunics, with long sleeves. They look innocent and virginal. They flock together happily, chattering as they pick slips of paper from glass containers, their instructions, we are told, for the particular dance steps they will perform in each stage of this piece. Their movements are regimented: they frequently dance in a line moving upstage or downstage as if in a church ceremony or a schoolyard game. The music is a long drone, like an organ playing, overlaid with whispered phrases.  Emerald Lies is much more immediate and hard-edged, like painful memory. The same seven women are dressed in lurid colours that shimmer under dramatic lighting. The dancers form an enclosure around one of their number. She's a victim, imprisoned; then, against the richly emotional score, the victim becomes the idol and the enclosure becomes a temple.

Recipient of the prestigious 2007 Ontario Premier's Emerging Artist Award, 1996 & 2003 Chalmers Performing Arts Training Award, 2003 Chalmers Arts Fellowship, 2003 New Pioneers Arts Award, and the 2002 K.M. Hunter Dance Award.  Yvonne Ng's intensity, grace, and mesmerizing presence have made her an unstoppable force on the Canadian and international dance scene.

Produces and manages ch'a performance and teaching workshop tour to Montreal & Vancouver as part of the Asian Heritage Month.

Co-produces/presents with Juliet Palmer Cypress, Flotsam & Jetsam,  Artword Theatre, Toronto, December

Produces and presents Fading Shadows/Returning Echoes - an evening of duets for Yvonne Ng & Robert Glumbek, choreography by Tedd Robinson, Dominique Dumais and Glumbek, Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto

Premiere of Collection: # 2: VovAge, #3: Headdress, & # 4: InVitation, choreography by Yvonne Ng, Dovehouse Dance Ballroom, Toronto, March

Signs: Paper Women & Emerald Lies, choreography by Yvonne Ng, Co-presentation with DanceWorks, Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto, February

Creative Workshop Tour, various schools & studios, Sudbury & North Bay, March

Collection #2: VoyAge & Collection #3: Headdress, choreography by Yvonne Ng, Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Toronto, May