Resistance-142466
Remounted | Reimagined for Stage in 2025
A bold reimagining of Resistance to be re-named 142466.
The original choreography toured North America for seven years from 2000 through 2007, opening the Harbourfront Theatre’s 2000 Season. The choreography travelled from Mexico to the USA and across Canada with great success.
Exploring the power of human spirit in the face of oppression and fear, 142466 personifies resilience and courage: six dancers and five benches on a sparse stage embody an environment of reflection, danger, and intimacy.
142466 harnesses an ensemble of exceptional performers in a powerful experience of daring trust, uncompromising physicality, and hope. In this creative co-creation, the artists will reflect both on Holocaust narratives and today’s atmosphere of social tension, revision, and violence - a process that will inform the reimagined choreography. Each artist will approach 142466 through the lens of their own personal experiences, struggles, activism, and world perspectives.
The artists will examine the essential fibres tying us together during times of oppression and crisis - fibres that are woven as human strands, providing strength and empowerment within a community. In a world where words can be inadequate, and events are difficult to convey, the human body and the language of dance can be employed to communicate emotions and narratives related to memory and trauma. 142466 offers a sense of hope and care which is crucial to survival.
Kaeja d’Dance is planning to premiere 142466 in the 2025/2026 season.
Credits
Original Concept
Allen Kaeja
2025 Directors
Allen Kaeja & Karen Kaeja
2025 Choreography
Aria Evans, Karen Kaeja, Allen Kaeja & guests
Composer
Edgardo Moreno
Photography
Ella Cooper
WORLD PREMIERE: Premier Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 2000. Film created in 2001.
“BEAUTIFULLY EVOCATIVE, powerfully realized and ultimately uplifting work. Resistance is elegant and athletic, explosive and restrained... a celebration of the strength of the human spirit against all odds.”
Washington Post
Original Stage Excerpts (2000)
Original Film Excerpts (2001)
“FORCEFUL...Resistance is intense, powerful, and full of the vital energy of that brightness that often shines forth in the midst of horror and that enables us to survive anything. ..”
LaPresse, Montreal
Photos by Ella Cooper