Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps and The Chimera Project are proud announce Toronto-based choreographer, Anjelica Scannura as the winner of the Paula Citron FRESH BLOOD Award and the Audience Choice recipient for 2012.
Scannura won both awards for After the Fall, a dance performance she created and performed which dealt with the repression of women in societies that bar them from basic civil liberties. Scannura’s body becomes the movement, transgressing the boundaries of flamenco that is at her training roots.
“In a review early in Scannura’s career, I once called the dancer/choreographer “a wild child of dance”. This description still holds true,” says national dance critic, Paula Citron. “In performance, Scannura is passionate and compelling. She rivets the eye with her consummate charisma, and as a result, seems to dance rings around her fellows.”
FRESH BLOOD is presented by The Chimera Project, in association with Harbourfront Centre. "It's a unique opportunity for the FRESH BLOOD artists to be seen by the most respected dance critic in Canada, and we are all grateful to Ms. Citron for taking the time to invest in new contemporary dance artists in this way,” says Malgorzata Nowacka, Artistic Director of The Chimera Project. “Angelica is mesmerizing on stage - her presence and ability to transform are unique. She is someone to watch in the future."
“Harbourfront Centre is pleased to be a partner with The Chimera Project on FRESH BLOOD as a unique opportunity for the development of emerging artists and emerging voices,” says Aristic Associate for dance, Lynanne Sparrow. “Congratulations to all of the artists who were are a part of Fresh Blood and to Anjelica Scannura as the winner of both the Paula Citron FRESH BLOOD Award and the Audience Choice recipient for 2012.”
Anjelica Scannura began her dance training at the National Ballet School of Canada and her training in Flamenco at Ritmo Flamenco. Scannura appeared in Disney's Camp Rock, alongside the Jonas Brothers and starred in the TIFF 2009 film Manson, My Name is Evil. She has toured extensively throughout the world and has choreographed for and taught at various secondary schools and McMaster University. Scannura is a recipient of the Chalmer's Professional Development Award (OAC) in May 2011, a board member of Dance Ontario and has been co-producing a new dance series Dance Expeditions. Her most recent appearance was in Diasporic Genius Productions' Tumbling Into Light and she is currently working towards Ritmo Flamenco's new production Vida Flamenca.
FRESH BLOOD presents interesting, innovative and surprising dance works of tomorrow’s contemporary dance superstars. Each emerging Canadian choreographer on the programme has less than five years of professional experience and is given five minutes to showcase his or her work.
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