The Zero Lab #3 | Tia Kushniruk | FEED

This new curatorial initiative by Mile Zero Dance features three local artists/groups who receive production residency support in our Warehouse venue, and present their new work in process.

We invite you to share the excitement of these new works in progress.

Tickets | $25/$20 MZD Members
Times: 7:30 PM
MZD is located at 9931 78 Ave NW, Edmonton

Zero Lab #3: Tia Kushniruk | FEED
May 31

An ensemble work using a variety of characters to live out various Sisyphian nightmares, FEED is a bold rehashing of traditional theatrical staging and dance rhythms, that culminate in joyous reverie for the little things in life.

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2025 ZERO LABS INCLUDE

Zero Lab #1: Ainsley Hillyard | CAPABLE
March 28+ 29

CAPABLE aims to tease out the complexities of #girlboss, celebrating and denouncing the roles and expectations placed on ambitious women and the persisting gender inequality around emotional, invisible and unpaid labour.

Zero Lab #2: Marynia Fekecz-Mangan | COME HELL OR HIGH WATER
May 9+ 10
Choreographer | Penelope Morout | CROSS IMPACT Co.
Zero Lab producer/dancer | Marynia Fekecz-Mangan (MfMdanceArtist)

Marynia Fekecz-Mangan (MfMdanceArtist) is the producer of this Zero Lab. Marynia is commissioning interdisciplinary choreographer Penelope Mourot and 5 local dancers to focus on the power of verbal and physical communication as a means for solidarity, particularly in today’s society of digital media.

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER is a tribute to freedom in its pure essence. Inspired by the poems of Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” as well as of Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird”, our heroes co-exist within the premises of a cabin in the woods, perpetually trying to protect their crop and send the birds away. Oscillating between reality and fiction, the dream and the nightmare, they confide personal stories and test the boundaries between society’s rigid expectations and their own free will.

Using the figure of a scarecrow as a metaphor, in order to “exorcise” ideas and standards that keep them caged within specific roles, our characters have to eventually face their own fears and self-restrictions· flocking, twirling, falling but always together, daring to claim the sky*.

* Quote from Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird”.