lost

Age Recommendation: 15+

In the first iteration of PEEP, lost began with two explorers waking up with no idea where they are with many memories missing. They are in...a base...no a ship, or craft of some type. Are they floating through space, lost at sea, or crash landed somewhere unknown? Not sure, the explorers soon discover they are stuck in their craft unable to leave. Months later, we return to the explorers to find that they have adapted to their current environment but are still without their memories. The duo work to discover where they are and what happened as they attempt to piece together who they are. lost is a work-in-progress.

Created by FREEWATER (Michaela Demers & Will Hamilton)
www.freewaterforartists.com/

Instagram: @mbdemers + @hamilton_himself

Music by Laura Dickens
Instagram: @leucrocuta.music

FREEWATER is the creation space of Mikaela Demers. Diving into the power of fiction and imagination, the work created embraces fantasy and strives to explore the dark places of our minds and bodies to share through movement-based performance. Unique worlds are created that take audiences to new places while reflecting and questioning the ideas, experiences, and norms of contemporary western society. lost is a co-creation by Mikaela Demers and Will Hamilton.

Will and I met as young dancers in Sudbury, Ontario in 2010. Both traveling to Toronto to pursue post-secondary training, we remained friends and creative partners throughout our studies to this day. We have made work together and performed in Toronto, Sudbury, and Thunder Bay. In more recent years we have divulged our shared interest in fantasy and sci-fi narrative, leading to the initiation of this work. We are working to develop lost into a full-length site-specific work that we can tour to our home communities in Northern Ontario and beyond.