Weathering and Waiting
Created by Opal Jennifer Elchuk with Victoria Kopf, Jeff Cadence and aquapher | Produced by Opal Creations | Origin: Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, ON
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Featuring a unique apparatus – the Aerial Canoe – this performance takes audiences on an emotional journey, told with the spectacle of circus, physical theatre and musical soundscape.
Content Notes
There are a few moments where a flashing light and thunder sound happen together, a bit suddenly. The story conveys an emotional journey that can be understood as characters facing mental health challenges, including one character who gets washed away at sea which can be interpreted as suicide or death, however it is not explicitly so.
*These performances will require masks.
Showtimes
- Sunday, June 158:00pm
- Monday, June 166:00pm
- Wednesday, June 18*6:30pm
- Thursday, June 197:00pm
- Saturday, June 2110:00pm
- Sunday, June 223:00pm
Featuring a unique apparatus – the Aerial Canoe – this performance takes audiences on an emotional journey, told with the spectacle of circus, physical theatre and musical soundscape. Water imagery and aerial acrobatics convey themes of isolation, depression, and grief, contrasted with perseverance, connection and joy; telling a story about resilience of the human spirit.
Research and creation was supported by The Canada Council for the Arts. It was first presented, by Public Energy, at the Canadian Canoe Museum, Peterborough Ontario, in 2024.
This work aims to move audiences to relate to the challenging emotions in this story, provoking a sense of empathy and union amidst the mental health and climate challenges facing humanity today.
Performers: Jennifer Elchuk (Opal), Victoria Kopf, Jeff Cadence
Original music: aquapher (Jared Bremner)
Lighting design: Patricia Levert
Dramaturge: Emily Hughes
Presented with The Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts
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When circus is meeting physical storytelling, hanging in a canoe. Great stage picture. Beautifully executed – I recommend.
This show is very pretty and beautifully made! Excellent gymnastics and very interesting story!
Beautifully moving performance. A must see!
Don’t blink. At 25 minutes, this is the quickest Fringe experience of the festival, and yet, it may be the one that lasts the longest. A floating skeleton canoe acts as an acrobatic apparatus, a life raft, a meeting place, a respite.
This silent, above ground dance, bathed in laps of blue and tidal sonics, is a mesmerizing feat of survival, struggle, resilience, love, and loss. A gorgeous wet dream. A-hem.
Who knew, what I needed was a way to process my grief and I found it through the air defying acrobatic, boat hanging show. It was a hypnotic experience to watch the artists move in the space. Their fluid mouvement was perfectly executed. I would recommend this show!
Wow ! How Canadian is this ? An iconic canoe charting a course down a river with sometimes rapids and sometimes calm waters. You will wonder how can this be done in the confines of a theatre. But some how I was brought into this flowing world with amazing acrobatics and sound. The canoeists/acrobats made this sensitive journey realistic with grace and strength. I truly recommend this journey to everyone.
Mesmerizingly beautiful to watch and emotionally affecting. There was a clear vision here, and everyone involved knocks it out of the park.
I really liked the attention to detail: several times when the artists needed an extra gripping point, they’ve got it in a way that was adding to the story!