Tip the Balance: fundraising for my solo, Becoming

Hi my name is Jessica.

I'm a professional dance artist, choreographer, and educator living in Toronto.

I'm excited to announce my first ever go-fund-me to raise funds for artist fees for my new dance: “Becoming.”

"Becoming" combines movement, song, spoken-word, video-projection, and a surround-sound environment to create an ambitious, 50-minute multi-media performance work that confronts the challenges of making art in our precarious time, and finds, in that very act, the seeds of hope to carry on.

“Becoming” began during the first winter of the pandemic as a solo exploration of the unsettling times, and has been developing since then, with invaluable input from my superb creative team: Fides Kruger (director, vocal coach), Holly Small (movement dramaturge), Tom Kuo (sound design), and Andrea Castaneda (stage management).

Audiences at the process showing in November 2022 called it “an extraordinary portrait of resilience and hope.” A "brave, vulnerable, delightful, transparent--" investigation of “what it is to be human.”

The initial creative process of this work was supported by the Toronto Arts Council and Canada Arts Council. Fundraising for production funding is ongoing.

This is where you come in!

Your support would mean the world to me, and would help keep the creative work on some last elements moving forward as I continue to seek production funding.

I hope you can join.

No amount of funding is too small to help.

Photo credit: Ömer Kardeş Yükseker