FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Performance Art edition

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The most natural thing is for movement to be incorporated into Performance art. Is it dance, is it art? You be the judge. FilmFest by Rogue Dancer is a dance film festival that offers a monthly curated on-line screening exclusively for dance films.

International Dance Day Party with Dance Ontario and Culture Shock Canada

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Calling all movers, groovers and shakers for an inter-generational digital party for International Dance Day 2023! Come dance with us for a cardio pop/funk family friendly dist-dance party! everyBODY is invited to dance along in a funky, fusion-inspired, joyful session! Transform any room in your space into a commUNITY dist-dance floor! Top 40, Old Skool, Funk, Bollywood…a mix of everything...

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Play (Digidance/Digidanse)

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Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman intends to turn the Paris Opera Ballet’s historic Palais Garnier into a vast playground where every object is a plaything. Ekman believes we should always keep that childlike urge to jump into action and let our imaginations run free. Play combines dance, theatre, music and song into what aims to be a high-energy spectacle that explores play through...

$15

FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: DREAMstate edition

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FilmFest by Rogue Dancer is a dancefilm festival that offers a monthly curated on-line screening exclusively for dancefilms. Each month, dance films are sorted into themes. Rogue Dancer aims to embrace the strange and the bizarre with this festival, illustrating impossible actions, accomplishments and relationships; the processing of worries and challenges when our minds are at rest. This Halloween season...

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FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Born THIS Way edition

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FilmFest by Rogue Dancer is a dance film festival that offers a monthly curated on-line screening exclusively for dance films. ‘Born THIS Way’ aims to provide a fly on the wall perspective on dancefilm artists addressing the question of the self. Featured DANCE Filmmakers:Annemijn Hélène Rijk (NETHERLANDS), Azize Sousami (UK), Alexander Petit Olivieri, Alia Swersky & Roel Seeber (USA), Naoto Iina...

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But Then Again

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DanceWorks presents But Then Again, Human Body Expression’s documentary film work about contemporary dance's current struggle for survival in times of uncertainty, featuring choreography by Hanna Kiel, and dancing from eight sensational Canadian artists. But Then Again documents the journey of a dance project and its struggle for survival during a historical, trying time. Through constant cancellations and a transition...

$10 – $15

Music and Dance Project

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The Music and Dance Project was created last year by Ne.Sans Opera & Dance in partnership with The Dance Centre, to offer local dance artists and musicians the opportunity to come together and develop new works. This short film features work in progress by two of the groups - Kate Franklin and Jeremy O’Neill, and Claire French and James Maxwell...

Intro to Bollywood with Chase Constantino

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Have you always wanted to try Bollywood? Here is your chance! Join Dance Ontario as we celebrate International Dance Day with a FREE Intro to Bollywood workshop with dancer and choreographer Chase Constantino. This workshop aims to get you moving and grooving, as you learn the basics of bollywood and a little of his choreography.

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Family Friendly Dist-Dance Party for International Dance Day

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Calling all movers, groovers and shakers for an intergenerational party for International Dance Day 2022. Come dance with us for a cardio pop/funk family friendly dist-dance party! EveryBODY is invited to dance along in what aims to be a funky fusion inspired energizer and joyful session. Transform any room in your space into a commUNITY dist-dance floor! Top 40, Old...

ALLISON EB DANCE ON SCREEN

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Allison Elizabeth Burns - Artistic Director of Allison EB Dance - is seeking to make connections and collaborative opportunities between artists, audiences and communities to empower experiential and visceral interactions with dance. Her premiere of ALLISON EB DANCE ON SCREEN aims to showcase her new screendance repertoire which includes commissioned work, festival selections, experimental collaboration and a world premiere. Burns...

Windows of Time

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Introducing Windows of Time,  a multi-region project with concept creator/facilitator Andrea Nann and concept creator/filmmaker Henry Mak. Windows of Time aims to explore the barriers we’ve faced during the pandemic and how dance can be used to heal the mental and physical scars left by COVID-19. WIndows of Time Premiere Weekend offers three days of FREE online and interactive events...

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Via Kanana

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DanceHouse, in partnership with Digidance, announces the North American premiere of the digital broadcast of South African dance company Via Katlehong and contemporary choreographer Gregory Maqoma’s Via Kanana, streaming in Canada. Eight dancers aim to combine the traditional, high-energy dance form of Pantsula (born out of South African protest) with tap, step and gumboot - a miners' dance based on...

Moving Connections: Dancing Collected Stories

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Sundays from 10-11am on Zoom Jan 30 – March 6 and March 27 – May 1, 2022. Join our FREE online movement practice from the comfort and safety of home! Introducing a new variation of Kaeja d’Dance’s beloved Moving Connections, called Dancing Collected Stories! Moving Connections is a community movement practice, conceived and developed by Karen Kaeja in 2018. Earlier...

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FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: HERstory Edition

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Shifting focus to HERstory, the quiet contrivance of the female role and the experience through the feminine gaze.  The mothers, sisters, partners…  the struggling, yet always strong, support systems that keep the world moving…  growing… nurtured… loved. Click here for more info.

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Voices of Mountains (Digital Performance)

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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.

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Angel

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Opera Atelier announces that their film Angel is back by popular demand in time for the holiday season - streaming Tuesday, December 7, 2021, and available until Monday, January 3, 2022. Following its world premiere earlier this fall, Angel marks the culmination of composer Edwin Huizinga’s commission for the company in association with Associate Composer/Assistant Conductor, Christopher Bagan. Angel features...

$25

Ground + Groove

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Join us for a guided meditation + dance class to cultivate joy and freedom! We will start class by grounding our energy through gentle breathwork and guided meditation. We will then move into a warm-up to ignite the fire within us. After this, you will be invited to connect to your own creative wisdom through guided improvisation dance techniques. This...