“A truly unique project, Everyday Marvels not only combined choreographers with very different aesthetics but mixed as well professional dancers with aspiring movers from a special RBC program inviting banking staff to be part of this production. In total, 35 dancers performed in a rotating cycle of works for a consecutive 12 hours for an ever changing audience. It was truly epic and the most attended production of this 2013 Nuit Blanche’s edition.” M-J.C

Everyday Marvels is based on a volume of poetry authored by Governor General Award winning poet Lorna Crozier. The quotidian objects interpreted in Crozier’s poems – radiator, spoons, flashlight, sky – are brought to life by a group of eight contemporary choreographers.

Invited by Shannon Litzenberger, creator and producer of Everyday Marvels, Marie-Josée and Susie Burpee served as associate directors for the project. Additionally, Marie-Josée contributed choreography for the poems Snow and The Midnight News. The show premiered at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2013 and was presented as part of the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival in 2014.