Bridging dance with sculpture, Katie Adams-Gossage, showed an exquisite piece with the Toronto Fringe Festival that bottles a deep meditation on tethering/untethering of the body. Performed by Frédérique Perron, gutted presents a transcendent dance experience as Perron is almost static yet hypnotically revolving with convincing velocity. Wet skin and fabric draped to Perron’s body and lighting design by Theo Belc, expertly highlights the muscle tension of every minute movement.
Subversive in its own rank within contemporary dance, gutted speaks quietly to the soul of the audience, leaving room for discovery of personal epiphanies. Limber, swift, hyper-controlled, and intentional, Frédérique Perron dances a slow-burn solo with an astonishing reveal that in some moments would make you forget that this is not a duet.

gutted
Choreographed and directed by Katie Adams Gossage
Performed by Frédérique Perron
Presented by the Toronto Fringe Festival
Marketing imagery, poster and program design by Haylie Dittrich

“In a new contemporary dance work by Katie Adams-Gossage, soloist Frédérique Perron carves into her own calcified edges, unearthing the sculptural materiality of the body. Tethered, drenched, gutted.” Toronto Fringe Festival