Making Time is the latest creation by artist and choreographer Sasha Kleinplatz, who brings together dancers and percussionists in her new work. In Making Time, the drum becomes an extension of the human, and the human an extension of the drum—an instrument capable of influencing not only soundscapes, but also the way a body vibrates and moves through space and time.
It looks at the questions : how playing an instrument affects the body, and brain ? What type of resonances, responses and inspirations an instrument can provoke in performers?
Credits
Choreography: Sasha Kleinplatz
Performers: ky brooks, Francesca Chudnoff, Winnie Ho, Laura Jeffery, Nien Tzu Weng
Creation Artist: Angélique Wilkie
Dramaturgy: Emile Pineault
Lighting Design: Paul Chambers
Assistant Lighting Designer: Jordana Natale
Costume Design: Nindy Banks
Vocal Consultation: Robin Love
Coproduction: Danse-Cité, Sasha Kleinplatz, La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines
Financial Supports: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts du Canada
This creation is presented as part of CAM en tournée, an initiative of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Montréal’s maisons de la culture, and the Association des diffuseurs culturels de l’Île de Montréal (ADÎCIM).
About the artist
Sasha Kleinplatz is a dance artist living in Tio’tia:ke-Mooniyang. She is the co-founder of Wants&Needs danse (with collaborator Andrew Tay) -a collective focused on creating non- traditional contexts for choreographers to make work, and for audiences to engage with a plurality of contemporary performance practices. Sasha has shown her own work in many theatres in Montreal and throughout Canada. She has participated in the danceWEB scholarship program in Vienna, Austria, as well as 8 Days and the Copycat Academy in Toronto, Ontario.
Sasha has been awarded residencies in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and has spent these research moments looking at queer dances, performing for plants, and building work collaboratively. She has had the pleasure of being an instructor in the dance departments of Concordia University, EDCMTL and UQAM, and currently takes great joy in teaching stretching to elders in Outremont, and pilates enthusiasts in Mile End. Her choreographies tend to blend the set and the chaotic, and she spends a lot of time thinking about why people dance.
In December 2021 Sasha completed a Masters degree at Simon Fraser, her thesis focused on consent in dance pedagogy, and practicing interspecies care through modes of scored, collaborative, performance. Sasha is currently engaged as a PhD student, looking at Canadian choreographic practices-how they are documented, what has been lost, and the possibilities of recuperation.
Interview
You wanted to teach four dancers how to play the drums. Why? What inspires the choreographer in you about this learning process?
S.K: I was inspired by watching videos of Yannick Desranleau and Milford Graves playing percussion. Their physicality and embodiment made me reflect on both dancing and choreography, and how they manifest in drumming.
The cast of the show consists of dancers and drummers. Why these encounters?
S.K: I was interested in bringing together “experts in different fields”, to see how they could inform and compliment one another. I was also interested in the learning process, and what kind of crossovers and blockages we might encounter.
Vibrating bodies, drums on stage, dance, singing, pink floor... What do you want the audience to experience with Making Time? Should we expect something chaotic or very structured/organised?
S.K: I’d say it is a kind of organized chaos. There are scores for the work, but a lot of space for choice making and improvisation. I am very open to what the audience experiences, I think mainly I’m hoping they feel relaxed and hopefully engaged :)
Can you play the drums, Sasha? 🤣
S.K: I cannot play the drums! I took 2 or 3 lessons when I was around 10 or 11, but couldn’t focus and went on to learn guitar :)
Practical Informations
September 27, 2026
Sasha Kleinplatz // CAM en tournée
Making Time
📍Centre culturel Georges-Vanier
October 23, 2026
Sasha Kleinplatz // CAM en tournée
Making Time
📍Maison de la Culture Montréal-Nord
October 29, 2026
Sasha Kleinplatz // CAM en tournée
Making Time
📍Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Monkland