Introducing Newborn Giants, by Robert Binet

Newborn Giants has been developed in collaboration with Devon Healey, a Theatre Artist and Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toronto who is blind.

Devon believes there are four things that put us most in touch with our bodies, and they are birth and death, (which we don't remember) and blindness and dance.

And both blindness and dance force you to engage with the sensorium in a really different way, and really puts your body on the front lines of all your experiences. But more importantly, they both really encourage you to go beyond the assumptions of what you're seeing and really tap into imagination and a world beyond what's right in front of us.

Devon's voice is woven through the score, and Devon calls this text immersive descriptive audio (IDA). IDA weaves together the physical experience of the dancer, the intentions of the choreographer and the perspective of blindness to create a rich poetic text that lives alongside the dance.

Experience the world premiere of Newborn Giants as part of our upcoming Bespoke season.