Wedding Threads

Concept, Direction & Choreography by Karen Kaeja
Featuring dancers: Tanya Crowder, Diana Groenendijk, Jennifer Helland, Shelly Hering,
Ashley Sanderson & Lynda Walters, with children: Mika Kaeja, Raphaella Valeri,
Kienna Shaw, Aliyah Hirchberg & Eva Myers
Composer: Sue Smith

Original Commission by:  Dusk Dances 
Presented by: Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival 2009
Location: Exhibition Park, Guelph, Ontario
Dates:   June 4, 2009 – 7:00 pm; June 6 & 7, 2009 – 12 noon
Info:  www.guelphcontemporarydancefestival.com

Flooded in white, Wedding Threads brings alive the relationship between women and their daughters. Karen Kaeja of Kaeja d'Dance is known as a choreographer who “paints portraits with moving bodies” Toronto Star. In this picturesque work, she threads a glorious intergenerational cast of six women and five youth including Karen’s daughter, through spectacular imagery that captures the hearts of many, revealing the inevitable hopes, dreams and magical ties between these generations of women. For this work, the children have been selected by Karen from schools of Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre, School of Toronto Dance Theatre, National Ballet School and the Randolph Dance Academy.