Ballet Creole
Writers & Readers
Who Tells and Cries Our Freedom?
By Collette MurrayA student-choreographed routine included dancers wearing slave and master outfits and an attempted tribal dance in dashikis and coloured “Afro” wigs to disco movements. This was April 2018, and the performance held in Barrie, Ontario, sparked a controversial social media reaction on cultural ethics.
Posted September 4, 2018
#CanadaDances on International Dance Day 2018
A roundup of images and videos from dance communities in Canada on International Dance Day.
Posted May 28, 2018
New Year, New Awakening
Soulful Messiah’s fifteenth year By Collette MurrayBallet Creole opens the holidays by intersecting the Toronto theatre community and the NextSteps contemporary dance series with its annual seasonal ritual – Soulful Messiah. The performance is Artistic Director and Founder Patrick Parson’s choreographic concept of navigating different emotional stages of life and spirituality and how one copes through its peaks and valleys.
Posted December 23, 2017
Cry Freedom
Performance | Spectacle
Toronto ON
May 11-13 mai 2018
Fri & Sat @ 8:00 | vendredi & samedi @ 20:00
Contemporary
Tounkande
Performance | Spectacle
Etobicoke ON
February 2 février 2018
Contemporary, African
Soulful Messiah
Performance | Spectacle
Toronto ON
December 1-3 décembre 2017
Fri, Sat @ 8:00 | vendredi, samedi @ 20:00
Afro-Caribbean
Contemporaneity
Coming together to decolonize dance space By Aparita BhandariBrandy Leary and Soraya Peerbaye launch a project looking to make understandings of contemporary dance performance more inclusive and diverse.
Posted January 26, 2017Soulful Messiah
Performance | Spectacle
Toronto ON
December 2-4 décembre 2016
2,3 @ 8:00 | 20:00
Multidisciplinary, Tap, Afro-Caribbean, Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary
Advanced Dunham Technique Workshop
Workshop | Classe
Etobicoke ON
December 15 décembre 2015
7:00 | 19:00
Ballet, Afro-Caribbean
