Bad Poetry
Sara Porter
DANCE / THEATRE
An absurdist choreo-literary-logistics exercise in poetic form, Bad Poetry is part lecture-demo, part dance performance, part queer clown turn, and a testament to how loving your own bad poetry can lead to self-acceptance.
“Bad Poetry is a thing of Delight
It’s not Something you should try to Get Right
But if you feel that You’d like to Do It.
I’ve organized something to help you get through it”
Inspired by Tristanne Connolly’s article “Falling in Love with Bad Poetry”, the work is an ode to the absurdity of creative process
Venue: The Theatre on King
Date: October 30th at 7:30pm & October 31st at 4pm
Tickets: Available now through eventbrite
Pricing*: $20-$40 + Fees
*Sliding scale tickets make our shows affordable for all.
Run time: Approximately 75 minutes
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available at the ground level, accessible washroom available. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a seat that’s accessible to you.
Venue:
The Theatre on King: 171 King St, Peterborough
Bad Poetry is an upbeat, lo-tech ever-shifting performance about the all the fun to be had in failing. With wordplay, rhetoric, clown, counting, dance & song, the work offers logistics of poetic feet, asserts that dance is not a language, and surprises one at every turn.
Sara Porter is an adventurous writer, educator, & captivating performer working at the intersection of memoir + movement. Celebrated for her daring imagination and sense of humour, Sara is noted for being truly multi-disciplinary. She centres her work in a feminist, queer worldview, and deals with the body as a point of personal reflection. She has presented her works at theatres and festivals across Canada, in Scotland, the US, and UK.
Porter’s performance will be musically accompanied by Nogojiwanong/Peterborough musical great Benj Rowland
