Dialogue

Dialogue is a piece for six men that explores themes of contact, communication and language – both spoken and unspoken. Underlying our learned ability to speak language, there is a fundamental urge to communicate.

Drawing on Wen Wei Wang’s personal experience as a non-English speaking immigrant to Canada, Dialogue explores the basic desire to be understood, and the loneliness when one does not achieve those rare honest connections with others. Dialogue strives to break down the sophisticated and artificial systems of language and technology to examine the universality of communication and of our collective experience.

“Dialogue is not about diversity, it is diverse.” - Brian Webb

Wen Wei Wang's exciting new work Dialogue investigates communication - both spoken and unspoken - and our fundamental urge to connect and to be understood. Performed by five powerful and expressive male dancers (Ralph Escamillan, Arash Khakpour, Tyler Layton-Olson, Nicholas Lydiate, and Alex Tam) Dialogue brings together Wang's elegant, aggressive physicality and distinctive trans-cultural sensibility to articulate our deepest hopes and fears.