There are three dances on this program:

this identity: woven "this identity: woven, is one of two works created through Peggy Baker Dance Projects' RBC Emerging Artists Program in the fall of 2022. My intention with this final iteration of the program was to co-create solo dance pieces through collaborations that bridged generations, cultural frameworks, and artistic practice; and that employed text as foundational source. Derek Souvannavong's application to the program was extremely exciting. He described his ambition of "re-finding and sharing my voice as a Lao-Canadian dance artist within a western form"; of wanting to "explore the beauty of Lao language, its fonts and meanings, its beautiful curves, lines, definition and content, the shape of each letter and the placement of the vowels, accent and tone markers that envelop each consonant to create a complex variety of sounds." I had proposed an interest in using text as a foundational source for movement invention as a premise for this co-creation project, so our interests were deeply aligned..." PB

SINCE THEN is danced by Jacquline Ethier and Sarah Hopkin, two dancers from the
Ottawa dance community who offer the audience a sublime (YES! SUBLIME!)
interpretation of Peggy's choreography which beautifully and tenderly explores the here
and now through each individual's eye.

UNMOORED brings us Peggy's phenomenal skills as a powerful dancing woman, a
woman with stories to tell, a woman who eagerly gives of herself. Choreographed by
Sarah Chase, UNMOORED is a work that offers us the experience of celebrating every
aspect of life as experienced through the heart of Peggy Baker.