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Bad Poetry

"Funny, clever, poignant, silly, educational, totally amazing!"

​"I had so much fun!"​

"Uncategorizable"

photos by Omer K Yukseker

"Bad Poetry: Live in [your town]!" is an upbeat, lo-tech ever-shifting performance with solo, duet and cabaret versions. With wordplay, rhetoric, clown, counting, dance & song, the work offers logistics of poetic feet, asserts that dance is not a language, and demonstrates how people can turn into poems.

Inspired by Tristanne Connolly's article "Loving Bad Poetry", the work is an ode
to the absurdity of creative process and the tender steps toward self acceptance.

recent presentations

SOLD OUT at Sweet Action Theatre / October 19, 2025
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BAD POETRY: live in montreal!
BAD POETRY: live in KITCHENER!
BAD POETRY: 
live in STRATFORD!

La Poêle, Montreal, May 2025

BAD POETRY : live in Toronto!

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SOLD OUT in TORONTO at IGAC Studio / Toronto, April 11-13, 2025
What Toronto Audiences said...
"Fantastic performances!"
"Wonderful show!"

BAD POETRY : live in halifax!

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PRESENTED at OutFest - Bus Stop Theatre in Halifax

“a kaleidoscope of speech and movement, poetry and dance”
“linguistics of a body's language”
"uncategorizable dance piece"


 

Created by : Sara Porter

Performed by : Sara Porter and Jessie Garon

Creative Consultant : Katherine Duncanson

Clown Consultant : John Turner

 
Supported by generous contributions from The Lindy Green Family Foundation,

KM Hunter Foundation, and Toronto Arts Council.

Video footage / editing by Fran Chudnoff , IGAC Studio 2025

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