Theatre Passe Muraille is bringing again the BeyondTO Collection for a 4 iteration. The Collection connects Toronto audiences with worldwide works which were lauded by critics, and push the envelope on the subject of the character of stay efficiency and cultural storytelling.
The 2026 version options two works — Wayqeycuna by Tiziano Cruz (Argentina) that can take the stage from January 24 to 25, and Mark of a Girl by Chisato Minamimura (United Kingdom), on stage from Could 22 to 23, 2026. Each artists are returning to the BeyondTO pageant.
Each productions supply audiences radically totally different views on storytelling in works that look at id, heritage, reminiscence, and the human physique itself. Right here’s a take a look at Wayqeycuna and Mark of a Girl.
Wayqueycuna by Tiziano Cruz
January 24 & 25, 2026 — Two Performances
Free workshop January 22, 2026
A Theatre Passe Muraille manufacturing of a ULMUS & ROSA Studio Manufacturing
In Spanish with English surtitles
The quipu is an historic gadget that comes from the Inca heritage, and consists of knotting threads and ropes of various colors as a way of recording info. Andean girls proceed this custom as a way of making dwelling memorials. It’s the inspiration for Argentine Tiziano Cruz — an artist who left his group for years earlier than returning — as he reaches out to reconnect along with his ancestry and residential. He attracts from each archival analysis and his personal private historical past as a homosexual man who felt stress from a society that, in precolonial occasions, as soon as celebrated the two-spirited, however underneath colonialism, and extra not too long ago, neoliberalism, regarded to erase that heritage and substitute a model of what we name Western tradition.
Wayqueycuna premiered on the famend Avignon Competition of latest performing arts, and concludes Cruz’s acclaimed trilogy titled Tres Maneras de Cantarle a una Montaña (Three Methods to Sing to a Mountain). The trilogy as a complete is each poetic and political in nature, and examines the intersections of reminiscence, class, and the worldwide artwork market. His Soliloquio was a part of #BeyondTO 2024.
On January 22, Tiziano will likely be facilitating a free group workshop titled Bread for the World. The workshop will carry collectively notions of artwork and territory by way of making loaves of bread in a celebration of our lifeless forebears who now inhabit the ancestral aircraft.
It’s an train in collectivity and collaboration, and storytelling that goes past passive reception to sharing an expertise. Earlier than the conquistadors introduced Catholic saints to interchange them, the folks of the Argentine Andes carried their lifeless on their shoulders to the mountaintops, to protect the our bodies till the Day of the Useless, once they ascend to the ancestral aircraft. Bread is obtainable to assist them reincarnate, a apply that extends throughout Latin America. Demise, though it could be painful to those that stay, isn’t thought-about by way of the identical tragic lens as it’s in Western societies.
Tiziano Cruz
Interdisciplinary Argentine artist Tiziano Cruz produces works that mix visible artwork, theatre, and efficiency within the public sphere. His public interventions and multimedia storytelling works span each the non-public and political realms. He based Ulmus in 2016, an artwork administration platform that revolves round coaching, analysis, and creating modern arts from the Northern Argentina, and connecting artists all through Latin America.
Cruz’s work has toured South America, Europe, and North America, and garnered a number of accolades, amongst them the Bienal de Arte Joven (2019) and Finland’s ANTI Competition Worldwide Prize for Stay Artwork (2023) for Soliloquio, which the jury described as “a strong and poetic oration that displays on the native and regional relation and the cultural traditions of his ancestry.”.
Mark of a Girl by Chisato Minamimura
Could 22 & 23, 2026 — Three Performances
A Theatre Passe Muraille presentation of a Chisato Minamimura Manufacturing
Mark of a Girl is a stay efficiency mission that makes use of private histories and accounts to look at the usually hidden relationships between girls and tattooing tradition. The work makes use of Visible Vernacular, digital animation, kinetic projection and Woojer™ expertise (a type of haptic expertise which employs patented Oscillating Body Actuators to create a way of contact through vibration, bringing digital and bodily experiences collectively).
The work references every little thing from colonialism and sexual assault to most cancers therapy and mastectomy surgical procedure in an exploration of how girls’s our bodies can categorical artwork, id, and resistance.
Chisato Minamimura
Deaf efficiency artist, choreographer and BSL artwork information Chisato Minamimura is a local of Japan, and is now based mostly in London. She is at present a Work Place Artist at The Place in London, an initiative that helps skilled choreographers for a 5 yr interval by way of a program that’s personalized for every artist. Her groundbreaking work blends bodily theatre, dance, and accessibility, and infrequently revolves round themes of communication, id, and human connection.
Earlier work consists of creating aerial performances with Graeae Theatre Firm, London’s 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony, and Rio’s 2016 Paralympic Cultural Olympiad. Her strategy to choreography and efficiency comes from the angle of a Deaf artist, and Minamimura experiments with visualizing sound and music.
Toronto audiences beforehand skilled Minamimura’s award successful work Scored in Silence at TPM’s very first #BeyondTO Collection in 2022.
Efficiency Particulars
Wayqeycuna by Tiziano Cruz is on stage January 24 & 25, 2026 at Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Ave.
In Spanish with English surtitles
Carried out in a Relaxed Surroundings
Mark of a Girl by Chisato Minamimura is on stage Could 22 & 23, 2026 at Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Ave.
Carried out in a Relaxed Surroundings
Carried out in Visible Vernacular and American Signal Language with alternate Entry by way of a mixture of Voice Over and Captions.
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