ZEROS & ONES
Zeros & Ones is a group creation for seven dancers examining how digital technologies and global networks shape bodies, identities, and relationships in today’s hyper-connected world. The title evokes the binary logic of the digital age: a world where some become the “ones,” benefiting from technological power, while others remain the “zeros,” pushed to the margins of an increasingly unequal system. Expanding on a solo originally created by Roger Sinha in India in 2008, the work transforms an intimate reflection into a collective exploration of our contemporary condition.
Blending movement, spoken word, and a dialogue between contemporary and Indian dance forms, Zeros & Ones examines how digital systems permeate everyday life and reinforce new forms of inequality and exclusion. Through moments of irony and critical humour, the piece creates a conversation between past and present, individuality and collective, revealing how digital systems fragment and reshape the lived experience — both individual and collective.
ABOUT THE CREATORS
ROGER SINHA
ORIGINAL CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY
Roger Sinha is a Montreal-based, award-winning choreographer and dancer. Over a 35-year career and more than twenty major creations, his work has become known for its distinctive fusion of contemporary dance, classical Indian dance, martial arts, spoken word, live music, and new technologies. Recently, he received a Dancer Transition Resource Centre – Parallel Training Grant to study Ableton music software, opening new artistic directions in his creative practice. Full biography here.
NADIA CHANEY
AUTHOR
For me, art is a way to coax unlikeliness into novelty. Whether it’s painting, poetry, or facilitating transformative group experiences, I’m always asking some form of this question: Can I survive the terrifying beauty of who I really am? Can we survive the terrifying beauty of who we really are? My arts practice is always evolving. For example, in 2025 I painted 143 images of the Hindu deity Kali. nadiachaney.com
RUBY SINGH
COMPOSER
Ruby Singh is a multi-award-winning composer, producer, performer, and educator whose practice spans music, poetry, film, and installation, exploring myth, ecology, justice, and speculative futures. He has been recognized with the Lt. Governors Jubilee Award, a JUNO nomination and multiple WCMA awards (Global Artist, Electronic Artist and Spiritual Artist of the year) for his work in art and music. Singh believes in art’s ability to reimagine futures, to repurpose aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice.
CREDITS
ORIGINAL CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Roger Sinha
PERFORMERS Emmanuelle Martin, Aloshi Amal, Aswathy Chandran, Divieta Sahajwala, Jeanne Brabant-Lavigne, Mayank Upadhyay, and Suman Ali
TEXT Nadia Chaney
ORIGINAL MUSIC Ruby Singh
REHEARSALS DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHY ASSISTANT Emmanuelle Martin
COSTUMES Mohit Nagar
COSTUME CONCEPT Roger Sinha assisted by Pritesh Mehta
LIGHTING DESIGN Sangeet Shrivastava and Roger Sinha
LIGHTING ASSISTANT Bhushan Sanjay Patil
RECORDED TEXT Roger Sinha
RECORDED MUSIC
Gioachino Rossini
Special thanks to Aswathy Chandran, Divieta Sahajwala their assisitance in the Indian dance movements (abhinya) and to the cinematography team: Rushab Sanghvi, Arpan Arekar, Aditya Kamath. Special thanks to Pritesh Mehta for making the residency and performances possible.