Deciphers - Canada Tour 2024

DECIPHERS TOURS CANADA 2024

Deciphers - an international collaboration created by Naishi Wang and Jean Abreu - will tour across Canada to 4 venues with 13 performances from 26 Jan - 23 Feb 2024.

Deciphers is a compelling physical performance bringing together elements of Chinese Folk Dance, Brazilian dance styles, spoken word, breath, and ink on paper to explore translation. The various mediums create and question complexities of communication through the lens of understanding and misunderstanding.

Co-performers and choreographers, Naishi Wang and Jean Abreu, use the stage as their blank canvas highlighting the body as a primal source for communication and carrier of meaning. Deciphers addresses translation as a linguistic phenomenon centering the immigrant experience.

For tickets for our Canada 2024 tour and to book please click on the event links below.

Deciphers was created by Naishi Wang and Jean Abreu

Choreography and performed by: Naishi Wang + Jean Abreu

Lighting Design: Lucie Bazzo

Visual Design: Ivy Wang

Composer: Olesia Onykiienko

Dramaturgic advice: Guy Cools

Outside eye: Ginelle Chagnon

Access Consultant: Zed Lightheart

Technical Director: Emerson Kafarowski

Stage Manager/Technical Assistant in collaboration: A.J. Morra

Technical Manager: Cath Cullinane

PR and Marketing: Diagonal Dance

Management: Michael Peter Johnson, Jean Abreu Dance + Robert Sauvey, Dance Umbrella of Ontario

Partners in Canada: The CanDance Network (Toronto) + National Arts Centre (Ottawa) + Harbourfront Centre (Toronto) + MAI Montréal, Arts interculturels (Montréal) + PuSh Festival (Vancouver) + DanceWorks (Toronto) + New Works (Vancouver) + Citadel (Toronto)

Partners in UK: Fabric Dance (Birmingham & Nottingham) + Dance City (Newcastle) + Brighton Dome (Brighton) + South East Dance (Brighton) + Towner Gallery (Eastbourne)

Deciphers is supported and funded by: the National Arts Centre (NAC) Visiting Dance Artist programme + The Candance Network small-scale creation fund + Canada Council for the Arts + Performing Arts Technical Residency programme at Harbourfront Center, Toronto + PuSh walk special podcast + Toronto Arts Council + Ontario Arts Council + Canada Council for the Arts + Arts Council England + Canadian High Commission UK