Pleasure Dome

Decades of brutality forced upon the Palestinian people by the settler-colonial state of Israel has once again led to hundreds of deaths through the ongoing state-sanctioned violence against the people of Palestine across Sheikh Jarrah and the occupied territories of Gaza and West Bank. In recent days, the escalating violence has yet again led to continued destruction, and the displacement of people from their homes in Palestine; an all-too-common occurrence that always se...ems to disappear under media silence. As settlers in Tkaronto, Pleasure Dome stands in solidarity against all forms of oppression; we do not tolerate anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, or anti-Jewish sentiment. We will stand and speak out against settler colonialism, no matter if it occurs in Israel, Canada, the United States, or elsewhere. Pleasure Dome commits to ongoing learning and unlearning in solidarity with the liberation of Palestine, and all oppressed peoples; and encourages you to take action through the link below to access resources, petitions, and ways to donate as prepared by the Toronto Palestine Film Festival @topalestinefilmfestival. Free Palestine. https://www.tpff.ca/resources/ongoing-nakba

May 26 to June 2: Measures of Motion | Online Screening at pdome.org. This program presents ways moving bodies resist social and political anxieties through connective gestures, solitary confrontations, and choreographies of care. Join us for the Closing Q&A Wednesday, June 2, 7:00 pm EST moderated by Anna Khimasia. This program is sponsored by The Toronto Dance Community Love-In. Featuring Inclinations, Danielle Peers and Alice Sheppard (Canada, 2019) 5:40 min Choreographed, directed, and shot from disability perspectives, this dance-on-video delves into the playful connection enabled where disability, community, and ramp meet, as well as the institutional histories of eugenics and racism, and the discordant inclinations that lurk just below the surface.

May 26 to June 2: Measures of Motion | Online Screening at pdome.org. This program presents ways moving bodies resist social and political anxieties through connective gestures, solitary confrontations, and choreographies of care. Join us for the Closing Q&A Wednesday, June 2, 7:00 pm EST moderated by Anna Khimasia @khimasiainla. This program is sponsored by The Toronto Dance Community Love-In. Featuring Herr by John Greyson @johngreyzone (Canada, 1998) 05:35 min. Four guys on a couch. They're on top of the world. They think alike, they strut alike, they piss in perfect sync. These stereotypical and banal gestures are made breathtaking through synchronization, repetition and split-second timing.

Measures of Motion | Online Screening | How do we move in insolation? PWYC Rental from May 26 to June 2, 2021 at pdome.org. This program is sponsored by The Toronto Dance Community Love-In Join us for the Closing Q&A Wednesday, June 2, 7:00 pm EST moderated by Anna Khimasia @khimasiainla. Featuring: Drills, Sarah Friedland (USA, 2020) A hybrid documentary and experimental dance film reimagining the form of the Cold War-era, US government-produced social guidance film, Drills asks what futures we are preparing for through the exercises embodying present anxieties.

PROGRAM ANNOUNCED Measures of Motion | Online Screening How do we move in isolation? This program presents ways moving bodies resist social and political anxieties through connective gestures, solitary confrontations, and choreographies of care. PWYC Rental from May 26 to June 2, 2021 at pdome.org. This program is sponsored by The Toronto Dance Community Love-In Join us for the Closing Q&A Wednesday, June 2, 7:00 pm EST moderated by Anna Khimasia.

UP NEXT: Measures of Motion | Online Screening | PWYC Rental from May 26 to June 2, 2021. At a moment when the space between us is rife with anxiety and risk, the task of moving towards intimacy with comfort or ease can feel next to impossible. How do we move in isolation? Where do we move in spatial constriction? The term social distance became a part of our everyday lexicon this past year. But it seems as though our bodies have been rehearsing for remote dances in bedro...om theatres and detached duets on sidewalk stages for longer than that. In Measures of Motion, we see a multiplicity of ways that moving bodies resist social and political anxieties through connective gestures, solitary confrontations, and choreographies of care. Featuring Sarah Friedland, Caroline Monnet, Francesca Chudnoff, Jessica Karuhanga, Danielle Peers & Alice Sheppard, Francisco Gonzalez Rosas, and John Greyson. This program is sponsored by The Toronto Dance Community Love-In, which cares for and supports each other through a shared interest in bodies finding joy while moving together collectively.