An unusual, family-friendly event involving music and dance happens Saturday afternoon at Exhibition Park.
Admission is free to “The Share,” which is the culmination of a seven-week residency in Guelph by Improvisers-in-Residence Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood.
The show, which starts at 2 p.m. Oct. 13, “is an invitation to meander through the south end of Exhibition Park to see and hear numerous informal dance and music performances by members of the Guelph community, each in a different location in the park,” a news release said. “Each performance is by a different intergenerational group that has developed and shared material leading up to the event, and in collaboration with local professional artists.”
The show created by the couple will last two or three hours, and people can come to see the entire event or any part of it, the release said. “Come by yourself or with your entire family,” it said.
Based in Toronto and Montreal, Hood is a dance artist, choreographer and singer, while Thomson is a trombonist and composer. The married couple were hired as Improvisers-in-Residence under a program sponsored by the Musagetes organization and the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice research project based at the university
The rain date for the show is Saturday Oct. 20 at 2 p.m.