Members of the York community are invited to drop by the Eleanor Winters Gallery in today through Thursday at 5pm to watch the York Dance Ensemble (YDE) perform during a three-day residency at the gallery.

As part of the residency, the YDE will be presenting an original program that includes the premiere of Suddenly Everyone, a site-specific collaboration created and performed by the YDE dancers and musicians under the direction of choreographer and dance faculty member Holly Small.

Above: YDE dancers performing Turbulence, choreographed by Shannon Roberts. Photo: David Hou

The YDE will also present York dance and concurrent education student Anne Goad's poignant duet It's just what you do, which will be performed by a different couple each evening. Each group of dancers will perform the duet not to the original music, but instead to live improvised music provided by the YDE musicians with two different musicians performing each evening.

Since September the YDE has been working together every Tuesday and Friday to explore the creation of music and dance. The residency at the Eleanor Winters Gallery marks the first public presentation of YDE’s ongoing collective creation of music and dance.

All of the 30-minute performances are free and open to the public. The gallery is located at 129 Winters College.

For more information on the YDE and its residency at the gallery, contact Sky Fairchild-Waller, event organizer at Winters College.

Republished courtesy of YFile– York University’s daily e-bulletin.