For Canadians, it may come as a surprise that one of the Netherlands’ top dance companies hails from not Amsterdam, but a town in the north called Groningen.
The initial spark for A Blessing on the Moon happened a decade ago when composer and folk musician Andy Teirstein walked into a bookshop in New York and saw a novel of that title.
Four artists—Natalie Doonan, Matilda Aslizadeh, Gwenessa Lam, and Natasha McHardy—meditate on various manifestations of the act of waiting while also responding to the history and architecture of Centre A.