If you’ve casually dropped “bike lanes” into dinner conversation lately, you know what it’s like to create a provocation.”
– Liz Nicholls, 12th night blog
DECEMBER 11 – 22, 2024 @ 8:00pm (2:00pm matinees on weekends)
Mile Zero Dance Warehouse (9931 78 ave NW, Edmonton)
Cycle is a solo-show written, developed, and performed by Andrew Ritchie. A story told from a stationary bike explores Ritchie’s personal experience, history, and politics of active transportation and cycle culture in Canada. Audience members seated on stationary bikes will be asked to pedal alongside Ritchie as he traverses the dangers and highs of urban transportation and gig work culture. Inspired by true experiences as a bike food courier in Toronto, and the financial and physical precariousness of trying to ‘make living’ in Canada, Cycle will get your blood pumping and cultivate a new respect for the two-wheeled travel.
CREATIVE TEAM
Director: Kristi Hansen*
Choreographer: Ainsley Hillyard
Actor: Andrew Ritchie
Dramaturge: Geoffrey Simon Brown
Sound Designer: liv mcrobbie
Stage Manager: Galen Hite
*The participation of these Artists is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy (DOT).
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Workshop production in May 2023 at Fringe Theatre Adventures and produced by Thou Art Here Theatre
Originally developed at Good Women Dance Collective’s Creative Incubator in 2021
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