ONCE REMOVED

Once Removed is a professional dance company whose focus is traditional American and English dance.  Dances in the repertoire are drawn from such traditions as contra dance, English dance, traditional longsword dance and rapper sword dance.  The repertoire is at times traditional, at times contemporary, and at times somewhere in between. 
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Numerology

Numerology is a suite of duets, trios and quartets that focus on the innate possibilities in numbers.  Inspired by the English ritual dance tradition called 'rapper sword dancing', each dancer is linked to another using flexible metal swords.  In its original form, this dance has 5 dancers, and they perform pre-existing figures that have been passed on from team to team and generation to generation.  It is an exploration of the possibilities that arise when the equation of a perfected traditional dance is altered.

Numerology was performed in the St. Ambroise Fringe Festival in Montreal in June '08, alongside the phenomenal work of Montreal based choreographer Emily Gualtieri.

For video footage, please visit: http://ca.youtube.com/

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Prodigal Son a solo work

The feeling in the pit of my stomach, in the fluttering of my chest, in the swooning of my heart is the same when I am homesick as it is when I am yearning to leave and seek adventure.  What movement can there be as one contemplates setting roots?  As one contemplates taking flight?

Prodigal Son was performed April 25th, 2009 at series 808 as a work in progress, and again at Studio Labspace June 19/20, 2009 as part of "My Words".
Music by Sam Amidon, arranged by Hannah Naiman

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Support Once Removed!

Dear Friends,
Thank you for your interest in my company.  At the moment we are getting by purely on the generosity of our supporters as we await grant support.  If you would like to help us support the costs of rehearsals, publicity and productions, please contact me at info.onceremoved@gmail.com.
Another huge way you can help is to pass the word on to others you know who would be interested in supporting this company as we push the boundaries of folk dance on the contemporary stage.
Your support is immeasurable to myself and to my company- without you we will not be able to share this work. Thank you in advance for helping to make my vision come alive.
Sincerely,
Hannah Naiman

Supporters of Once Removed

Body Harmonics Pilates, CDSS, Bette Soloway, Veree Woodbridge, Liza Bruna, Adam Kunda, Arlene Bookstaber, Julie Fishman, Sarah Besegai, Chris Bischoff, Jennifer Woodbridge, Katrina Sukola, Margaret Spencer, Kathy Talvitie, Laurel Sharp, Kent Gilbert, Heather Koffman, Paul Morris, Taylor Schultz, Philippe Bergeron-Burns, Kathy Reid-Naiman, Joan Weed, Robert Birion, Julia Rubin-Smith, Jason Machtinger, Ezra Fischer, Becky Peoples, Sarah Neale...

Bio

Hannah completed her BFA in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in 2006.  Hannah has performed for Meagan O’Shea, Pierre Chartrand, Stephan Koplowitz, Heidi Strauss, Valerie Buddle, Heather Bryce, and Katarzyna Ignatowska.  She has presented her choreographic works in Boston, New York, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto.  In 2007, she founded Once Removed, a contemporary dance company whose repertoire isolates and illuminates particular elements of traditional American and English folk dance.  Once Removed performed in Montréal at the St. Ambroise Fringe Festival in June 2008, and most recently at the Ottawa Folk Festival in August 2009. For her contemporary dance choreographies, Hannah was awarded an Emerging Artist Award as well as a Space Grant Award by Green Street Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Hannah was invited to perform as a guest in Claudia Moore’s  “Older and Reckless 10th Anniversary Show” at the Dancemaker’s Centre for Creation as one of 10 emerging dance artists in Toronto.