performance

the wandering faun 

Lake Studio Berlin Residency

An excerpt of the first iteration of a new work in progress. Research continued December 2022 at Toronto Dance Theatre's Plug'N'Play residency and National Ballet's OpenSpace Programme

This project was made possible with the support for the Canadian Council for the Arts, Explore & Create grant for dance professionals. 

Sound Meditation
October 2021
Good Space Toronto

Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for providing funding support for the Arts Response Initiative: Project Grants for Individuals (2020).

Perspective is everything so keep growing

March 2, 2019
Dance Makers, Toronto

Short film improvisation exploration 

Beside Myself

Jan 2021

Toronto

Short film improvisation exploration 

NOCTURNE

NYE 2021

Virtual Performance Installation + DJ set

Created for The Rave Theory

An online video festival 

Virtual Performance Installation

Premiered for Club Q

Collaboration with Soak Collective

April 2020

Exploring a hyper-femme-non-binary-superhero performance art installation 

Hedonic Hotspots

Performance + Art Installation

Premiered for PULP: Reclaimed Materials in Art & Design, Toronto

January 2019 

Hedonic Hotspots explores a twisted journey in a fantasy of distorted dysphoria. The character navigates their various manic moods while on a relentless pursuit of pleasure and ecstasy. The audience members become voyeurs, looking into the tangled mind of a lost millennial's abstract-mania. A hyper feminized performance of non-binary drag.

Do You Think About Me (Official Music Video)

choreography + performance

May 2018

Core Dancers: Amanda Pye, Mark-Che Devonish, Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen, Omar Al-Samadi and Sierra Chin Sawdy

Directed by: Jacq Andrade 

Produced by: MadRuk

Site-specific short film

Banff Centre for the Arts

September 2018

What is “source” and how do we connect to it? Inside of us? Outside of us? We are always in relationship to it, always connected. When we do feel connected to our source, how can we harness it?

Site Research 

March 2017, Berlin-Tempelhof

Recorded in an old airport in Berlin. A public space movement research. Listening to history of the land, a space of transitions.

Music by ACOTE

L e e r

Short Film

April 2017, Berlin, Pankow-Heinersdorf

Filmed in an abandoned freight station, Leer is a site-specific exploration that researches the movement of bodies in an organizational space. It looks at the body as a somatic archive or a vessel that responds to space, form and architecture of the external environment.

This project was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, ESF im Land Berlin and DOCK11*****

Stay

Short Film

August 2017, Toronto

A personal dialogue with self. Exploring shadows and the intersections between the body-mind space our physical bodies in relation to time.

Music by Hauschka

Shadow Kids (Official Music Video) - Ivory Hours

August 2017, Toronto/London

Credits:  

Alex Stephenson (Director & Editor) 

Nick Kachibaia (Director of Photography) 

Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen (Choreography, Dancer) Justin DeLuna (Dancer) 

Peter Kelly (Dancer) 

Luke Roes (Producer, Writer, Pyrotechnics) 

Daniel Szynkaruk (Set Design)

take 2

Site-specific short film

September 2017, Toronto

An exploration of spontaneity within public spaces. A way of relating to architecture. Finding randomness in unexpected places. Connecting, sourcing, changing.

Bearson - one step at a time (Official Music Video)

November 2016, Toronto

Choreography & Performance by Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen & Ben Landsberg

Directed by Route Eleven Productions

Produced by Ultra Music

night swim

Performance Event

(project in collaboration with Alvin Collantes)

December 2016, Toronto

An immersive, experimental platform for contemporary digital music, mix media, performance and installation. Co-Founded by Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen & Alvin Collantes, NIGHT SWIM is a creative outlet for artists to present work in an immersive, eclectic environment that fosters experimentation.