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As part of Artworx TO’s Year of Public Art 2021-2022, Laneway ART-ery Dances is a site-specific project that is led by artistic producer Mateo Galindo Torres. This interactive digital installation invites audiences to visit and experience downtown Toronto’s unique alleys in new ways. Shot in the laneways, the dancefilms feature seven professional dancers and original music. Featuring Aria Evans, Nickeshia...
Fusing classical and contemporary opera repertoire with dance, Voices of Mountains features the world premiere of "Fire" by former COC Composer-in-Residence Ian Cusson. Mezzo-sopranos Rebecca Cuddy and Marion Newman perform with pianist Gordon Gerrard from the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, while choreography and dance from Aria Evans is set against some of Toronto’s backdrops.
The clock strikes midnight and Ballet Victoria strikes again with this rendition of Cinderella, with Prokofiev’s classical score. Ballet Victoria’s 21st century ballet follows the story of the classical Cinderella but with a little twist, adding some humor and new characters. Embark on Cinderella’s journey to find her prince, and don’t forget your glass slippers!
Avec l'œuvre Parades, Alan Lake Factori(e) souhaite renouer avec un mode de création in situ. Pour ce nouvel opus, quatre interprètes investissent la Caserne Dalhousie et s’adonnent à une mystérieuse fête païenne à mi-chemin entre danse, installation vivante et sculpture. Le temps de leur présence, ils visent à habiter, transformer et magnifier cet espace atypique, dans une exploration du mouvement...
Featuring Carol-Ann Bohrn, Ian Mozdzen & D-Anne Kuby dancing in close/far proximity on bare stage to witnesses... with a soundtrack of only room ambience. With the intention to be stark, focused and kinetic… observe the space “in between” the movers — what forms and invisible tensions exist in the simple confrontation of bodies in silence? How does dance form and reform...
Choreographer Riley Sims' newest creation for Social Growl, This Lament I'll Lip-sync Until I'm Born Again, is an interdisciplinary performance of autofiction based on the six performers: four dancers, one actor, one cinematographer. A broken narrative and descent into a black hole of emotional molasses.
This evening aims to be a new occasion to celebrate the meeting of two of Montréal’s professional dance scenes: neo-burlesque and contemporary dance. While maintaining the main codes of burlesque, a contemporary perspective tries to break with tradition, feed new aesthetics and raise political questions. The event includes eight numbers dreamed up by fourteen artists, a bar right inside the...
The rules of the game are simple. Like and be liked. Kill or be killed. Under the direction of choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen, Norway’s dance/theatre company winter guests attempts to deconstruct contemporary pathologies of need and narcissism. Taking inspiration from the performer’s real-life experiences, solo work and group dynamics try to lay bare the brutal cost of social rituals. With...
A traveling outdoor site-specific show featuring contemporary dance in the urban back alleyways of Saskatoon. Meet at the corner of 2nd and 24th at 7pm.
Free Flow Dance Theatre missed its 25th anniversary due to the pandemic, but is back to celebrate with an event featuring new works by Terrill Maguire, Newton Moraes and a collaboration between Danny Grossman, Eddie Kastrau and Jackie Latendresse.