Choreographer had to begin again when Winnipeg s code-red restrictions put distance between his dancers
Human beings can’t touch right now, but their shadows can. That realization was a literal light-bulb moment for dancer and choreographer Jera Wolfe, who was in town last fall working on an original piece for Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers.
Human beings can’t touch right now, but their shadows can. That realization was a literal light-bulb moment for dancer and choreographer Jera Wolfe, who was in town last fall working on an original piece for Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers. I’ve always enjoyed physical human touch. two people connecting and moving together, it’s really big and always present in my works, he says over the phone from his home in Toronto. But when I came (to Winnipeg) and I found out that was no longer a possibility, I realized, ‘OK, I gotta figure out a way to show connection through social-distance times.’