The Desert Island Project opens tomorrow at the Winchester Street Theatre and continues until Sunday, Nov. 9.
McGuire will perform work by choreographers Kate Alton (Toronto), Andrea Miller (New York) and Idan Sharabi (Israel/Netherlands) as well as a dance piece she created herself.
McGuire's Fable is billed as a solo that captures the anticipation, acceptance, enjoyment and disillusionment of a dark fate. It's described as fantasy and disbelief meeting clarity and inevitability as the body matures to adapt to the challenges of a shifting environment. The piece is set to the duet from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Alton's 62 is billed as exploring the will to battle against overwhelming odds. The work evolved from a series of individual movements and emphasizes the cycle of fight, collapse and recovery as well as the ideas of breaking through barriers with defiance and maintaining alertness when life is constantly in danger. It's set to a series of bass clarinet tracks by John Gzowski.
Miller's Temptation is billed as a bite-sized adventure and described as an exploration of an innocent, sultry, tenacious and awkward character dancing along the brink of good and evil towards the birth of self-awareness. It's set to the music of Tom Waits.
Sharabi's Till 120 asserts that every day is a birthday. The piece will be accompanied by a video projection and is set to Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne.
McGuire, the daughter of Juno Award-winning Mississauga musician Peggy Hills, is a graduate of both Cawthra Park Secondary School and The Juilliard School in New York City. A winner of a Mississauga Arts Award in 1998, McGuire also has won the Dance Films Association's 2007 Susan Braun Award.
The presentation will mark all four pieces' Canadian premieres.
Tickets cost $17-$20. To purchase, call 416-204-1082.
For more information, visit www.belindamcguire.org.
cclay@mississauga.net
