Leslie Ting

violin and interdisciplinary artist

Leslie Ting is an artist who combines her practice as a classical musician with creative work in theatre, installation art, and experience stemming from her former career as a practicing optometrist. Her definitive work, Speculation, garnered her multiple award nominations, including the Pauline McGibbon Award for Emerging Theatre Director (2021).

Her latest project, What Brings You In, is currently in development as an online, interactive binaural experience, and has been supported by Theatre Passe Muraille’s Buzz Development program, WhyNot’s RISER Project, the Summerworks Lab Program and the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now Initiative and the National Arts Centre Creation Fund.

Recent collaborations have included Diane Borsato’s Your Temper, My Weather at the National Arts Centre SPHERE Festival (Ottawa), performing in the inaugural season of improvisation web series, Understory, contributing to experimental publication Caddisfly Project (NYC) and creating a video étude for Race Cards (in Two Acts), a co-production by Prime Mover Theatre Company and Selina Thompson LTD (UK).

Creative accessibility is a throughline of Leslie’s artistic practice. Often developing projects in dialogue and collaboration with Blind and Low Vision artists and audiences, she invites all of her collaborators to integrate the de-centring of vision into the core of a project and reflect on our relationship with vision and listening.