Opens at The Theatre Centre, May 18-21, 2023

"The problem with categories is that they leak." - Trinh Minh-ha

“Dance-theatre-singing-flippers-poetry-pictures.” - Sara Porter

TICKETS now on SALE - https://theatrecentre.org/event/leak/

Audience response to 2022 studio presentation

“ Incredible show. It's so brilliant, so rich, so funny, so sublime ... wildly original and endlessly thought-provoking. I loved it so much!”

"A stunning multi-media performance, a poetry in motion, graceful, humorous, crazy-wild, informative, mythic, surreal, oceanic in its breadth. It’s impossible to describe the richness of L-E-A-K.”

"Like nothing else I have ever experienced ... I feel like it should be on some giant stage and go around the world because it is specific and universal and somehow for this moment in time right now. THANK YOU for making it.”

part dance show, part art exhibit, part research project, part erotic poem to the ocean

Inspired by Rachel Carson's writing about the ocean, her amorous letters penned while wading the tidal pools of Maine, Sara's ferry crossings of the Bay of Fundy, and scientific research into the sexual orientation of seagulls off the coast of California, L-E-A-K is a kind of love letter to the ocean, an erotic account of the whole wet & messy event that is the beginning of the world, the leaky terrain of bodies, and that great mother of life, The Sea

CREATION

Sara Porter

PERFORMANCE

Sara Porter & Jessie Garon

CREATIVE COLLABORATOR

Katherine Duncanson

VIDEO

Linnea Swan, Jeremy Mimnagh

SOUND

Jeremy Mimnagh, after Phil Strong

LIGHTING

Rebecca Picherack

TECHNICAL

Curtis Whittaker

STAGE MANAGEMENT

Kathy Le

PRODUCER

Jenny McCowan