Trillionth i signifies the third eye and beyond, to the trillionth eye, in an embrace of endless ways of sensing, knowing and of being in the world. Trillionth i signifies the vast multiplicity of the I, of the self, and my fundamental connection to you all and ultimately to our oneness. Trillionth i, with its multigenerational cast from eighteen years old to seventy-two years old, asks the artists to go beyond representation, and to engage as dance and music ritual specialists, where their performances are intended to create something actual yet invisible in the here and now, something that is good for all. The performance of dance and music is literally put to the task of making a better world and beyond. - Peter Chin
Choreographer/Composer: Peter Chin in collaboration with the artists
Performers: Andrea Nann, Jennifer Dahl, Katherine Duncanson, Bonnie Kim, Carlos Rivera, Heidi Strauss (Canada), Marina Acevedo (Mexico), Chy Ratana, Chanborey Soy (Cambodia)
Text: Peter Chin (performed by Marina Acevedo)
Music Direction: Peter Chin
Musicians: Andrew Timar, Peter Chin (Canada), Mouern Chanty, Rasy Hul, Chea Ratanakitya, Ros Sokunthea (Cambodia)
Musicians on recording: Peter Chin, Rick Sacks (Canada) Mouern Chanty, Rasy Hul, Chea Ratanakitya, Ros Sokunthea, Nop Borami (Cambodia)
Wardrobe/Costume Coordinator: Peter Chin
Lighting Designer: Arun Srinivasan
Stage Manager/Production Manager: Ryan Davy
Vocal Coach: Katherine Duncanson
Thank you to:
Oos Koswara, Tanveer Alam, Jake Ramos, Naishi Wang, Eric Cadesky, NKK Dance Centre, Camilo Giraldo and Lim Chanboramy, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre
Bios
Peter Chin
Choreographer, composer
Peter Chin is a multidisciplinary artist born in Jamaica and based in Toronto and Cambodia. He has been part of the cultural life of Toronto for over 50 years, starting with singing in Massey Hall in 1972. Peter Chin is the founder and artistic director of dance-driven trans-disciplinary company Tribal Crackling Wind, and co-founder and director of the NKK International Dance Centre in Siem Reap Cambodia. Chin has been described as a renaissance man of the dance world, and is recognized as a composer / musician, choreographer / dancer, designer, writer and filmmaker. His works have received 5 Dora Mavor Moore awards, and many nominations. Chin has also received a Gemini award for his performance in the film ‘Streetcar’ by Nick de Pencier. He was also an inaugural winner of the K.M. Hunter Artist Awards - Interdisciplinary Arts category, and has been recognized with the Muriel Sherrin Award, among others. Chin is the inaugural laureate of the Eldred Family Dance Award. Chin’s works have been presented across Canada, United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Columbia, Amsterdam, UK, Cambodia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Taiwan.
Marina Acevedo
Performer
Marina Acevedo graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBAL). Marina is a Scenic Creator and Contemporary Dancing and Improvisation Teacher. Her work develops from a starting point where exploration, sensing and awakening the relationship with one's body is essential, always with an openness towards the search for new horizons and connections. Throughout 30 years of professional activity, she has collaborated with renowned choreographers and companies both nationally and internationally such as: Eternal Snail Dance ( Eterno Caracol Danza), In Two Parts (En Dos Partes), Tandem Dance Company (Tandem Cía de Danza), The Mutable Body / Movement Theatre (El Cuerpo Mutable/Teatro de Movimiento), Tribal Crackling Wind, Kaha:wi-Dance Theatre, Limon Dance Company NY, Red Sky Performance, among others.
Mouern Chanty
Musician
Moeurn Chanty is a classical Khmer musician and is a 2015 graduate in music theory and specializing in the srelei thom (double reed) from The Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. He has been active as a professional musician since 2014, with engagements in Osaka Japan, the ASEAN Culture Youth Camp in Thailand, and in 2016 was a musician in the dance theatre production of Brodal Serei by Emmanuelle Phuon, at the da:ns festival in Singapore. He has been a musician for the Amrita Performing Arts production of Here I Stand in Time, a site- specific work by Peter Chin in collaboration with Chan Cheykethya and the artist of Amrita Performing Arts.
Ratana Chy
Performer
Ratana Chy is a graduate of classical Cambodian dance at Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh Cambodia. He is a classical and contemporary dancer, and a classical musician. He was an artist with Amrita Performing Arts from 2008 till 2015, with performances and choreography in Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, USA, Japan and Europe with Belgian choreographer Arco Renz. He has been an associate artist with Tribal Crackling Wind since 2008 till present, with performances across Canada, Colombia, Jamaica, and Asia, for which he has won a Dora Mavor Moore award.
Jennifer Dahl
Performer
Jennifer Dahl is a contemporary dance/theatre artist, post rehabilitation movement specialist and fascial movement facilitator and educator. She began her dance/movement training in Saskatchewan and continued her training in Montreal and New York City(Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre) before graduating from The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre in 1994. Since then Jennifer has performed across Canada and Europe for over 25 years. She has worked/collaborated with a multitude of both established and emerging creators in both dance and theatre including Volcano Theatre(The 4 Horseman Project),Susanna Fournier(4 Sisters-Empire Trilogy)Citadel and Co.(Grasslands, Hymn to The Universe featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra), playwright Jordan Tannahill and Canadian Stage(Declarations) and The Dietrich Group (This is a Costume Drama, FIELDWORK)) in pieces created for the stage, film and site specific locales. Jennifer teaches specialized conditioning and movement related courses throughout North America, Europe and Asia. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
Ryan Davy
Stage Manager/Production Manager
Ryan Davy holds a degree in Stage Management from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Previous Stage Management credits include "A Musical Journey from Hardship to Hope" (Canada Ireland Foundation), "Rent," "Sister Act," "Into the Woods," "Evita," "Cabaret," "Godspell" (Trentino Music Festival) “Stones in His Pockets” (Wychwood Theatre), and "Carmen" (Opera Australia). He currently assists in running the T.Y.T. Theatre Company out of the Wychwood Theatre.
Katherine Duncanson
Performer
Katherine Duncanson is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist, and has been involved in the worlds of music, dance and theatre for several decades. She has created her own solo work and has also had the pleasure of creating with and/or being an interpreter in, the works of many of Canada's most renowned artists. A soulful and delightful creative association with Peter Chin began in 1985, when they were both students at York University. Katherine has performed in 3000 seat theatres and in rooms just for one; in art galleries, forests, factories and office towers; on a streetcar, in a canoe, beside a cow and under a rock; in parks, parking lots, gardens and meadows; in oceans, rivers, lakes and bathtubs; on rafts and roof tops; in tents and trees; soaked by rain, parched by the sun, bathed by the moon and surrounded by fire…
Rasy Hul
Musician
Rasy Hul is Cambodian artist and co-founder of NKK Dance Centre in Siem Reap. He has worked with Peter Chin and Tribal Crackling Wind on many projects internationally as an artist and production assistant. He has travelled with Mr. Chin as a research assistant to Java, Sumatra and Bali in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Toronto and Ottawa. In Toronto he has performed at the ROM for Nuit Blanche, Fall For Dance North showcase with Tribal Crackling Wind, and also with Older and Reckless in Chin’s work ‘You See Us’.
Bonnie Kim
Performer
A dance artist for more than 30 years, Bonnie Kim is a multiple Dora Award nominee for performance and choreography and was named one of “Toronto’s top five dancers,” by Eye Weekly magazine. Upcoming projects: performer in Peter Chin’s Trillionth I; screenwriter/performer in Hanna Kiel’s What Happened to Lee? outside eye/rehearsal director for Nova Bhattacharya’s Svāhā. Highly regarded as a teacher, mentor and outside eye, Bonnie was Rehearsal and later Associate Director of Dancemakers for nine years. She directed a cast of hundreds for Sylvain Émard’s epic Le Grand Continental, produced by Luminato. Her training began at Claude Watson School for the Arts and continued at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Bonnie has performed with many of Canada’s most respected artists and companies, including Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault and Nightwood Theatre. Bonnie’s writing has been published in the Dance Current, Eye Weekly, Toronto Star, Toronto Life and the Fall for Dance North magazine. emmandbee.wordpress.com
Andrea Nann
Performer
Andrea Nann dances to reach across distance and to experience herself and others in celebration of possibility, plurality, imagination, originality, and belonging. She is a choreographer, founder and artistic director of Dreamwalker Dance Company, and creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology™. A graduate of York University’s Department of Fine Arts, Andrea was a member of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1988-2003 and over a 34-year career she has contributed to the creation of new works by over 70 dance and theatre creators from across Turtle Island. Andrea has also been recognized for contributions to the performing arts sector and for her work in community actioning. Andrea believes that dance and embodiment can shift attitudes and ways of being, tuning us into what makes each of us distinct, to what we share, and ultimately how we can live together in wonderment and peace.
Chea Ratanakitya
Musician
Chea Ratanakitya studied at secondary of fine art school and has performed as a professional musician across Cambodia as well as Taiwan and Vietnam. Chea performed in Peter Chin’s Here I Stand in time in Phnom Penh in collaboration with Chan Cheykethya and the artists of Amrita Performing of Arts.
Carlos Rivera
Performer
Carlos Rivera is a director, choreographer, actor and a dancer, originally from Mexico City.
He graduated from the Indigenous Residency Program at National Theatre School in 2018 and recently graduated from the MFA in Directing for Theatre Program at the University of Ottawa. Carlos has worked and collaborated with several performing arts companies across Canada including: Red Sky Performance (Toronto), Globe Theatre (Regina), Raven Spirit Dance (Vancouver), MT Space (Kitchener), Puente Theatre (Victoria), Ondinnok (Montreal) Lemon Tree Creations (Toronto) Electric Company (Vancouver) Micro-Scope Productions (Montreal); among others. He is continuously working on numerous artistic projects in dance, film, theatre and performance. Carlos is honoured with the opportunity to take part on this project and to work with Peter Chin and Tribal Cracking Wind
Ros Sokunthea
Musician
Ros Sokunthea is a graduate of the Royal University of Fine Arts in classical Khmer music specializing in Lakhoan Khol. He has performed as a professional musician across Cambodia, as well as China, Canada, Singapore, New York, and Japan. He was the musical director for the Amrita Performing Arts production of Here I Stand in Time in Phnom Penh, by Peter Chin in collaboration with Chan Cheykethya and the artists of Amrita Performing Arts.
Arun Srinivasan
Lighting Designer
Arun Srinivasan has worked extensively in the performing arts for 30 years. Dance collaborators include Robert Desrosiers, Danny Grossman, COBA, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Tiger Princess Dance Projects, Throwdown Collective and ProArteDanza. He has been the resident designer for CCDT since 2002. Theatre credits include Soulpepper, Tarragon, Crow’s, Stratford, Factory, Canadian Stage, The Globe, Cahoots, Musical Stage Co., Luminato & Buddies In Bad Times. His career has garnered him 9 Dora Award nominations. He has had the privilege of teaching lighting design at York, TMU (formerly Ryerso), the University of Waterloo and mentorship at The National Theatre School. Arun is pleased to be collaborating with Peter once again having designed several past productions including Mind’s Hammer, Stupa, Transmission of the Invisible and Woven. Productions have taken Arun to Ukraine, Malaysia, Singapore, India, China and across North America. Currently, Arun is designing Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labor Lost for The Stratford Festival.
Heidi Strauss
Performer
Heidi Strauss has worked for companies and choreographers from across Canada, as well as within Europe and Asia. A multi-Dora Award winning choreographer and the Artistic Director of Toronto-based adelheid, Heidi has been a resident artist at The Duncan Centre (CZ), and in Toronto at the Factory Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Harbourfront Centre, and currently at The Citadel through their Creative Incubator program. Her installation work has been recognized by UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network. She has been commissioned by/choreographed for Toronto Dance Theatre, Mocean Dance, The Frankfurt Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, Volcano Theatre, the Stratford Festival, among others. Heidi is a KM Hunter Award recipient who has had the privilege of working with Peter Chin as a dancer in Transmission of the Invisible, and rehearsal director of Fluency and Older New Golden Blue. She is thrilled to be a part of trillionth i. https://adelheid.ca
Chanborey Soy
Performer
Chanborey Soy started training in Lakhaon Khaol (Cambodian classical male mask dance) in 2002 at Secondary School of Fine Arts graduating in 2011, and graduated with a BA in dance of Choreography Arts, at the Royal University of Fine Arts in 2015. He performed Lakhaon Khaol and Sbek Thom (large shadow puppetry) at Sovannaphum Arts Association and has performed and toured in Europe and Bahrain with The Cambodian Ballet Royal Troup by Princess Norodom Buppha Devi. Chanborey is a former contemporary dance member of Amrita Performing Arts and a member of Silverbelle dance group and Lakhaon Khaol Youth of Cambodia. In 2018-2019 he performed The Trojan Woman by La MaMa Theatre in Cambodia. In 2019 he was received the youth Cambodian Cultural dance creation award.
Andrew Timar
Musician
Andrew Timar is a Toronto music journalist, music educator, researcher and composer-musician. Acknowledged as Canada’s leading advocate of the suling, the family of bamboo ring flutes of Java and Bali, he is among our country’s pioneering gamelan musicians. Beginning a career-long association with Evergreen Club Gamelan in 1983, he continues as its suling soloist and community music director. With deep roots in Western baroque, classical, experimental music performance, Andrew has performed with Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, Aradia Baroque Orchestra, Confluence Concerts, Esprit Orchestra, ECM+, SMCQ, NEXUS and New Music Concerts, among others. A life-long student of music around the world, he has appeared in concert and on recordings with Araz Salek, Euis Komariah, Nano Suratno, Burhan Sukarma, Iwan Gunawan, Abraham Adzenyah, I.M. Harjito and Trichy Sankaran. In the 1970s Andrew began his practice of making music for choreographer-dancers including Bianca Rogge, Susan McNaughton, Maxine Heppner, Terrill Maguire, Nadia Pavlychenko, Holly Small, Jennifer Mascall, Marie Chouinard and Joan Phillips. He later worked with dancers Claudia Moore, Denise Fujiwara, Danielle Belec, Patricia Beatty, Lata Pada, Maria Darmaningsih, Didik Nini Thowok, Peter Chin, Susan Lee, Keiko Ninomiya, Nurrika Suparman, Wisnu Wicaksono and many others. Andrew is honoured to have musically contributed to several Peter Chin productions: Raturaja (1997), Bridge (2001), Streetcar (2003), Berdandan (2005), Stupa (2005), Mind's Hammer (2006), Trillionth I: Transmission (2022), and You See Us (2022).
His transcultural composition Open Fifths: Gardens, performed by Spindle Ensemble and ECG, will be released on the EP Live in Toronto on the Hidden Notes label in 2023.