pounds per square inch performance | 30th Anniversary Season
Gerry Trentham, Artistic Director
NEWS & UPCOMING
30th Anniversary Season
Save the Dates - December 19 - 21, 2025
In-person 30th Anniversary Gatherings @ 509 Parliament Street, Toronto.
Buoyancy of Light
We will premiere our new live quartet BUOYANCY of LIGHT with performers Tia Kushniruk (in photograph by choreographer Gerry Trentham), Calder White, Aria Evans and Michael Mortley at home in Toronto from December 19 -21, 2025. We have been creating the work over the last years in residencies in Buenos Aires, McMaster University in Hamilton, University of Winnipeg and the Catskill mountains of Upstate NY!
Photo of Tia Kushniruk by Gabriel Cropley
December 21, 2025
Pre - Show GALA and Fundraiser
4:44 pm as the sun sets in Tkaronto
Join us for celebrations & festivities including a private screening of our award winning film VALLEY OF SHADOWS
Fujiwara Dance Inventions and lbs/sq” presents a film by William Yong featuring writing and choreography by Gerry Trentham and Denise Fujiwara performed by Trentham. A special thank you to our friends at the Rosebud Theatre and School of the Arts who helped us film the work in the badlands of Alberta.
May 30th - June 13th, 2026
El Armando Centro, Argentina & lbs/sq'" performance, Canada
Present
International Voice Intensive, Buenos Aires (BAVI)
Limited Enrollment | Registration Coming Soon
BAVI will be conducted in Spanish and English -Bi-lingual fluency is NOT required.
This truly intensive two week performance training program offers you, the participant, a journey into the foundations of performance- your voice - your body -as a site for revelation and authenticity.
Photo by Fabrice Grover courtesy of Canada's National Voice Intensive
and The Moving Voice Institute
August 16, 2025 - 7:00 pm - InterArts Performance Development Showing of The Lunatic Project
Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center.
THANK YOU to all who joined us as Choreographer/Writer/Performer Gerry Trentham and Sculptor Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff begin their investigation into a new bi-continental inter-arts solo performance, The Lunatic, through a public development performance following their week-long residency at MAR+RC.
As a seminal project in Trentham’s fifth decade as a queer performer and artist, The Lunatic draws inspiration from the third and final stage of life described by Jungian psychologist and art critic Graham Jackson as the evolution of the “youthful golden messenger” into the “lunatic” whose air-like invisibility is difficult to hear or see.
This initial research and first showing is made possible by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Catskills producing support by Kaats Cradle, a branch of The Party Theater programming, US/Lbs International Artistic Producer Marisa Caruso, and Teresa Fellion, Artistic Director of BodyStories and Middlebrook Arts Research and Residency Center.
June 19, 2025 - New Fulcrum Community Engagement Event
Summer Solstice Weekend - when light lingers
Thank you for joining the artists as they introduced you to their work as part of the New Fulcrum Project with Natasha Ama Eck, Lucy Rupert, Mutya Macatumpag, Cat Montgomery, Trevor Copp, Tiffany Thomas, Miriam Cummings, Nasiv Kaur Sall and Lauren Runions