.Jessica Runge

ABOUT JESSICA RUNGE

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UPCOMING PROJECTS

This fall, Jessica will be dancing with Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa. A number of Canadian and internationally based choreographers will be working in residence with Le Groupe's dancers, and lab performances of their new dances will happen every three weeks throughout the fall.

In December, she teaches as an Ontario Art's Council artist-in-education at Givins Shaw School in Toronto. The dance she creates with these grade 3/4 students will be included in their winter concert.

In January and February Jessica works again with Darcey Callison on his Zoo Story project; a work for seven dancers that explores images of masculinity in popular media and dance. This will be the final phase of a process that has spanned three years and it will culminate in a week of performances at York University's McLean Theatre (February 25 - March 1, 2009, details T.B.C.).

March 2009 sees Jessica returning to Ottawa to finish the season with Le Groupe. In April she teaches in Toronto.

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...is an interactive art installation being created by Jessica Runge and her husband, new media developer Arthur Cormack, with choreography by acclaimed choreographer Peter Chin.

RECENT NEWS

On May 30th, 2008, The Twenty-three-sided Shape, a dance Jessica created for and with the grade 3/4 students of Salem Public School, had its premiere at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival. "A great success," wrote festival Co-artistic Director Catrina von Radecki; the dance delighted audiences of all ages.

Critics called Jessica's dancing "sublime" in Peggy Baker's Dora nominated production Portal (March 2008, The Dsnce Current).

In January, she performed with Louis Laberge-Cote, Takako Segawa, Rob Piilonen, and friends for a small but riveted crowd at the Leftover Daylight Series' Tribute to Stockhausen.

In the 2007/08 school year, Jessica also taught at a number of Toronto public schools (see previous student responses) and at the PULSE Youth Conference.

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