A long awaited, new version of Poetry on Tiptoes came together in the QUIET PARADE in Nocturne 2022!

Images at the top gallery are from Saturday workshops at Wonder’neath prior to the parade to write, edit, rearrange, and fabricate the words for the poem. The lower gallery have audience perspectives from the event itself! See some great coverage from CBC Halifax’s, Vernon Ramesar here.

“Poetry on Tiptoes” is a performance of text that has been written and fabricated collaboratively, whereby each participant quietly tiptoes along while carrying a word or two. The text is a self referential poetic visual description that is choreographically malleable – allowing revisions en route as the participants tiptoe along in lines that shift and revert as the parade proceeds. 

We move with phrases: tiptoeing quietly together/we/travel/forward/carrying words/moving and unspoken/is it poetry/ ?/ *crickets/cheer silently/ 

Collaborators Bio

Shared learning experiences, studio spaces and overlapping interests have led Jessica and Sophie to Collabor-Active endeavours. Over the past few years, they have been interpreting public art spaces, leading pedagogical explorations with volunteers, and inter-being/acting during multilingual walks and parades. They are joined in this project with Maria Jose Yax Fraser, who volunteers with the Immigrant Migrant Women’s Association of Halifax (IMWAH) and Wonder’neath Open Studio participants.

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A previous, unfinished version of this project was planned to occur in the Gold Cup & Saucer Parade, the culmination of Charlottetown, PEI’s “Old Home Week”.