tick tock focuses on sonic and choreographic performance to produce, interpret, and devise works of opera, dance, and physical theatre.
sasha amaya /// Sasha Amaya works in dance, choreography, installation, and spatial design. Using the media of music, movement, dance, art history, collage, text, and architectural surrounds, she is particularly interested in understanding how we frame, utilize, reject, and repurpose historical narratives and techniques in contemporary art work. As a performer and creator, her work has been exhibited throughout Germany, in France at la Cité internationale des arts and l’Abbaye du Royaumont, at Theatre du Centaur in Luxembourg, at Somerset House in London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, at the Goethe Institute in partnership with the Royal Institute of Art in Sweden, and at aceartinc., Nuit Blanche, and through WAC WITH ART in Canada. In addition to dance education undertaken in Canada, Germany, and France, Sasha holds an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her work has been generously supported by the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council, as well as through international partnerships.
naomi woo /// Naomi Woo is a prominent young Canadian conductor and pianist, recognized by CBC Radio, ARTV, and Flare magazine as a rising star on the Canadian classical music scene. Currently Assistant Conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Naomi is a finalist for the position of Artistic and Music Director of l'Orchestre Symphonique de l'Estuaire, and a member of Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership program and the Orchestre Métropolitain Montreal’s inaugural conducting academy. Following debuts with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Regina Symphony Orchestra, and Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra in 2021-22, this season sees her debuts with the Calgary Philharmonic, Orchestra NOW (New York), the Ann Arbor Symphony, and at LSO St. Luke’s with the ensemble Tangram Sound. On the opera stage, she conducts the Canadian premiere of Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angel’s Bone” in Vancouver, Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s The Night Falls in New York City, and assists at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Naomi holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She has also studied mathematics, philosophy, and music at Yale College, the Yale School of Music, and Université de Montréal.
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