MODI - NU
dance and music collaboration
In this moment, here, now, together, we find the way,
we sense the method, we feel the rhythm,
the measure, the manner of composing,
we follow the map through different worlds
of sound, movement and images.
Dancer / choreographer Yolande Snaith is joined by musicians
Glyn Jackson, Eliza Jacobs and Roger Hall,
for this performance created specially for the
Totnes Fringe Festival 2026.
Totnes Civic Hall
Friday July 10 @ 8:15pm
details and tickets here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/totnesfringefestival/2190700?date=2026-07-10
Sunday July 12 @ 1pm
details and tickets here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/totnesfringefestival/2196208?date=2026-07-12
The sound of the earth waiting for something to land, the sound of a rock hovering
over the sea, he sound of a single beat of a hummingbird’s wing, the sound of roots
singing underground, the sound of a butterfly closing its wings, the sound of a
snow flake melting into the void, the sound of a sparrow’s footsteps on the moon,
the sound of a feather landing on an iceberg, the sound of . . .
Testimonials:
“Yolande is a visionary, and 100% committed to complex processes that bring about highly original performance works. As a collaborator, she values individuals from many different backgrounds in order to create worlds “out of the ether” and into our hearts” . . . . .“Working with Yolande as a performer is like boarding a very stable train with a very trustworthy conductor. The journey will be exciting, and you will find yourself arriving at many different destinations, always awarded with depth of knowledge and performance ability along the way.”
Marcos Duran, UC San Diego Dance MFA Alumni, Dance Theatre producer and educat
“Yolande is a virtuoso at finding and creating connections between ideas, images, words, and movement. It has been deeply satisfying to work in creative processes that are so rich and immersive”
Gina Bolles Soreneson, Choreographer / Educator
"Yolande's teaching is transformative. Fifteen years later, I still find myself regularly revisiting artistic processes that she introduced. Her ability to perceive the world around her as flourishing with creative potential is magical. But her ability to structure that raw potential into rich artistic processes that challenge, rewire, and delight her students is even more so".
Kyle Sorenesen, UC San Diego Dance MFA Alumni, Choreographer / Educator / Dance Film-maker
"Yolande is a magical dance maker. Her creative processes offer rich portals for movement explorations. I have known Yolande for 20 years and cherish my kinesthetic memories in the many pieces and worlds she created for me as a dancer in San Diego. As a professor and colleague at UCSD she guided her students with kindness and innovative ways of thinking about space, time, elemental connections, and the expansive possibilities of human movement. Yolande is a well loved teacher and guide who will spark your creativity and imagination".
Alison D. Smith - dancer and embodiment guide.
"I have learned so much from Yolande over a decade of dance experiences together. Being a part of her process firsthand in both rehearsals and classes has given me infinite insights into my own dancing and making which I share in my own classes and processes". Sadie Weinberg - dancer, choreographer, educator, artistic director of LITVAKdance
“I’m being completely honest when I say that having Yolande Snaith as a teacher and mentor during my grad school years, was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. She dramatically shifted and liberated my conception of choreography and dance making. It is because of her gentle, imaginative, resourceful and rigorous guidance that I came face to face with what it means to be a human being and a movement artist in the highest sense. I always like to say that my work with Yolande reconciled me with metaphor and introduced me to the depths of the improvisational state. That open space of immense presence and vast possibility. Her teachings continue to support and inform my daily and creative life today. “
Paulina Colmenares, Choreographer, Dance Professor.
"Yolande offered her artistry, theatricality, love of movement, artistic conviction and curiosity through her character and sensibility. She gave me permission by way of living example to hone and live inside my own artistic processes and curiosity, to continuously seek out and listen to my aesthetic voice. When I reflect on my experiences being involved as a performer in some of Yolande's Choreographies; I could describe propositions of thematic specificity asking me to embody a state, a character, a way of being, dancing inside continuous moving patterns; becoming layered; a dancing escher meets a gothic mythic ritual space. I often found myself in something peculiar and tender, costumed in layers and textures in fabrics that holistically supported a whimsy and chaos and lightness of being that my experience of being in her works imbued. Yolande always encouraged my artistic curiosity and multidisciplinary interests and I am so very grateful and honored for my time working, studying and considering artistic practices with her at UCSD and through time continued within the larger San Diego dance community, as a collaborator and friend".
Emily Aust, Dance maker, and Reiki practitioner.
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