Magic Mixing
A blend of a dance residency, a performance, and an interactive discussion with the audience — this is what Magic Mixing is all about.
Pay-what-you-can ticket.
Description
Magic Mixing invites two Asian diaspora dance artists, Allegra Hu and Simran Sachar, from different dance forms to exchange, explore and to create in collaboration together in a one-week studio residency. Culminating with an open informal showing of their exchange and exploration, including a facilitated audience talkback.
Magic Mixing would be for artists in different stages of their career and the mentorship is a multidirectional experience where one’s lived experience and expertise can be insightful and imparted intergenerationally, inter form. Etc.
Magic Mixing aims to build relationships and strengthen solidarity, creative exchanges, knowledge-sharing representation and connection nationally.
Accessibility
Anti-Space: 5425 Casgrain, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1X9, space 318.
Doors close at 7:30 PM.
Allegra Hu
Simran Sachar
Simziez – allias Simran Sachar is a South Asian contemporary and street dance artist, choreographer, and actor. She is a captivating anomaly in this industry who consistently works in ground-breaking spaces.
Her work uncovers distorted memories and how they disfigure us, the duality of relief and grief, and our own identity as the mirror.
Simran’s latest live work, ‘ACT TWENTY FIVE’ premiered in front of two sold out audiences in June 2024 at Vancouver’s Dancing On The Edge Festival. Simran’s latest film “The Edge of The Underworld” with XR technology, premiered in November 2024. Her first XR film, BETA बेटा was presented at Luna Arts Festival 2021. In 2020, her first film ‘LUNACY’ was a part of National Arts Centre’s CAPSULE and premiered at F.O.R.M Film Festival and won the Official Selection of the Audience Choice Award. She made her acting debut in 2023 as the lead actor and assistant choreographer in Alberta Theatre Projects showing of Bombay Black as Apsara. Simran is the Winner of 2023’s Release Yourself Whacking Battle in Montreal.
Simran’s other credits include Netflix, CW Riverdale, The Vancouver Opera, Dairy Canada, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Dancing On The Edge, OFF-Parcours Danse, OFF-FTA, F.O.R.M Festival, Apple TV, National Arts Centre, Fringe Manila and more.
With
Allegra Hu
Simran Sachar
