Name: The Juvenis Festival 20205: Dance, Poetry, and Music @ The Broom Factory - Apr 24, 2025
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-24T23:59:00-04:00
Location: The Broom Factory

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The Juvenis Festival 20205: Dance, Poetry, and Music

Resonance: Rhythm & Performance. What rhythms bind artists across mediums.

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Music Folk / Celtic / Latin / World Pop / Rock / Indie Noise / Experimental / Avant-Garde Non-performance education / skills development Literary Poetry Storytelling Dance Contemporary / Modern Ballet Folk / Cultural Swing / Jazz Tap

Thu. April 24th + Add to Calendar

The Broom Factory (All Ages)

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Ella Stotz

Lauren Runions

Michelle Yue

Gracen White

Rowen Edwards

Chantal Aucoin

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The Juvenis Festival

Kingston's Youth Arts Festival by Blue Canoe Theatrical

1296 Bath Road Kingston Ontario

Open / Operational

Blue Canoe Productions

Theater company in Kingston, Ontario.

1296 Bath Rd Kingston Ontario

Open / Operational

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The showcase will be held on April 24th, 2025 at The Broom Factory and will highlight themes of interconnectedness, exploring what rhythms bind artists across mediums. The youth project leader, Ella Stotz, has the goal to fuse multiple art forms into a showcase. In addition to choreographing dance performances, she wants to include live music and spoken word. When asked about why, she answered that she’s curious about expanding her and others’ perspectives about what is possible on stage. This event will provide Stotz with the opportunity to choreograph and execute a production in the Kingston community. The pieces will be contemporary with a bit of ballet influence. If you’re a part of a dance company in Kingston and would like to perform, contact [email protected] by March 30, 2025.

Youth Project Leader
Ella Stotz
Stotz is a dancer and artist living in Kingston, ON. Growing up as a dancer, she has a ballet and contemporary background. Over the years, she has attended intensive workshops, joined troupes, and performed a variety of genres. In addition to her dance experience, she has worked to teach children and youth. Currently, she teaches Tap and Ballet to primary children at the Kingston School of Dance (KSD). When not teaching, she can be found dancing in The Kingston Youth Dance Ensemble or practicing for Blue Canoe’s Winter 2024 production, Anastasia. In 2023, she performed in the collaborative dance production, Dāstān, which was a series of performances put on by KSD and the Juvenis Festival. Today, Stotz hopes to take what she has learned to create her very own showcase.

Mentor
Lauren Runions
Lauren Runions (b. 1989) is a dance artist, choreographer, and facilitator of mixed settler ancestry based in Tkarón:to (Toronto) and Kjipuktuk (Halifax). They are the artistic director of project I/O Movement which offers site-responsive performances, community workshops, and public residencies.

For Lauren dancing involves moving-thinking, writing, choreographic objects, community labs, performances, and daily independent practice. Their work investigates the role of choreography as a reciprocal spatial practice; and with deliberate movement experiments and staged interventions they begin to expand this notion through score-reading and -writing. Scores open possibility for improvisation, sounding, observing, walking, and tending to routine dailiness. Scores exalt presence and ways to be in dialogue-with material, beings, and place. Lauren’s work questions how social choreographies shape embodied awareness and inform their responsibility to living with city and natural ecologies.

Meet the Dancers

Michelle Yue
Hi, I’m Michelle, a fourth-year Commerce student at Queen’s University. I love telling stories through movement and bringing energy to the stage. When I’m not studying, you’ll almost always find me dancing — because, as Nietzsche said, "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." So here’s to making today count — enjoy the show!

Gracen White
Gracen is so very excited to have the opportunity to perform in this show. She has been dancing since she was three years old and has loved every step, plie, and tendu of their dance journey. Their past stage credits include Corporal Joanie and Featured Tap Dancer in The Clover Report (MusicalMania!), Phantom/Dance Captain in Rocky Horror Show, Sally/Ensemble in Let’s Dance (workshop), Featured Soloist in New Faces 2022 (St. Lawrence College); and Dancer in Broadway Bound NYC 2019 Intrepid Performance (Be Discovered!). They hope you enjoy the show!

Rowen Edwards
Hi! My name is Rowen, I am 18 and I am a dancer at Kingston school of dance! I love to dance and move my body, it brings me so much joy, it helps me get I touch with myself and my body, and it is my favourite thing to do. I have been dancing for around 9 years and I cannot imagine myself not dancing in some way in my future. I am so excited to be apart of the resonance dance showcase and share this art form with the community.

Chantal Aucoin
'Chantal (she/her) is a dance artist based in Kingston with training in contemporary, jazz, acrobatics and ballet.

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