Yvonne Ng's tiger princess dance projects (Ottawa/Toronto)
www.princessproductions.ca

Stone Velvet

Presented as part of the 2009 CanAsian International Dance Festival

Choreographer: Tedd Robinson
Performers: Yvonne Ng and Robert Glumbek

Stone Velvet is an eloquent and charming duet created for Yvonne Ng and Robert Glumbek by Tedd Robinson. Set to Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, Robinson weaves an intricate choreographic score of tiny jumps, quirky gestures and tight changes of direction for each of Bach's innumerable notes. With humour and pathos, Ng and Glumbek reveal the human condition through the complex exchanges of two quirky beings.

Photographer: Cylla von Tiedemann

Tedd Robbinson

Tedd Robinson, born in Ottawa, Canada, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University, and studied at The School of The Toronto Dance Theatre and with eminent British visual theatre artist Lindsay Kemp. Robinson first rose to prominence as Artistic Director of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg, Canada (1984 - 1990), where he created highly theatrical ensemble works. Having returned to Ottawa in 1990 to pursue a solo career, he is now firmly established as a choreographer, educator and solo artist whose critically acclaimed, award-winning and utterly unique works have won him a multitude of commissions and an international schedule of touring and teaching. His critically acclaimed work Rokudo: six destinies in three steps, received the 1998 Chalmers National Dance Award. His more recent works involve collaborations with Ottawa B-Boy Ru Padolsky and his qwod skwod (2001-02), Margie Gillis (2003-04) and Louise Lecavalier (2003-06). Robinson is Artistic Director of 10 Gates Dancing Inc., a non-profit company formed in 1998 to promote the development and performance of contemporary dance creations. His work is influenced by his 6 years of study as a monk in the Hakukaze soto zen monastery, Ottawa. Tedd Robinson is an Associate Dance Artist of the National Arts Centre.

Yvonne Ng

Yvonne Ng's intensity, grace and mesmerizing presence have made her an unstoppable force on the Canadian and international dance scene. Ng is a dancer, producer, choreographer, teacher and artistic director of her company, tiger princess dance projects. The company’s repertoire includes fourteen works choreographed by Ng and eleven works by some of Canada’s most renowned choreographers. Ng was honoured with a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2000 and has been nominated eight times. Ng has received the prestigious K.M. Hunter Dance Award, the New Pioneers Arts Award and Chalmers Arts Fellowship. In 2007, Ng was awarded the Premier’s Emerging Artist Arts Award along with Canadian dance legend Peggy Baker. Since 2006, she teaches in the Theatre Dept at Juniata College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. and is a performer in their professional company, The Gravity Project. In addition to choreography and performance, Ng is the Artistic Director of Series 8:08 (since 1994) and the curator and presenter of dance: made in canada/fait au canada, both of which produce the work of choreographers from across Canada.

Robert Glumbeck

Robert Glumbek’s passion and sensitivity towards the dynamics of human relationships is what characterizes his emotionally charged choreography. He is the Associate Artistic Director of ProArteDanza founded by Artistic Director, Roberto Campanella. Robert’s recent works include commissions for Ryerson University, the Mannheim Ballet, princess productions, and ProArteDanza. In the 8th International Solo-Dance Festival in Stuttgart, Robert was entered as a finalist for his solo, Subsistence. Robert currently teaches at the National Ballet of Canada, Dance Teq, Mannheim Ballet, and Ryerson University.