12 Litres 8800 steps

12 Litres 8800 Steps is a story about love. It is a story about endurance. It is a story about those who have loved and lost someone to addiction. A multi-disciplinary odyssey incorporating text and movement that invites the audience to take a deep dive into the inner sanctum of a Woman who is grappling with her partner’s addiction. In this 20-30 minute work-in-progress, one day she encounters a Horse, and together they journey through the dualistic worlds of addiction/mental health, and Magic Realism where dreams, memories, and possibility take flight.

“Anita La Selva is simply put, an amazing artist.  She is also someone who is extremely generous with other artists as a director, dramaturg, mentor, teacher.  When she first told me about this experience I said:  you have to write a play about it.  I really value the personal.  As I always tell an artist, by the time you have completed many drafts the essence of the personal is the foundation.  But the piece will grow and change and become its own fiction.  Never be afraid to start from the personal.  This story brings an incredibly exciting element into it:  the horse.” – Beatriz Pizano

September 30, 2023 at 7:30 PM

About the artist

Anita La Selva is an award-winning director, dramaturg, actor and creator. Her focus as an artist is in creating interdisciplinary, inter-cultural work that reflects the world we live in today. Her unique style of combining text with movement, dance and music has made her a popular director, co-creator, and consultant, on numerous interdisciplinary projects. She is the 2019 recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Award for Emerging Female Director, holds an MFA in Directing from York University, and has been an artist mentor through the Toronto Arts Council and The Buddies Emerging Creators’ Unit. Anita teaches regularly in the York University and Seneca College Acting Programs.