Luminato Festival

Luminato Festival, Sylvain Émard Danse, Sylvain Émard

Le Grand Continental®

Performance | Spectacle

Toronto ON
June 22-24 juin 2018
Friday, June 22nd & Saturday, June 23rd @9:15pm
Contemporary, Line Dance

Malpaso Dance Company in Dreaming of Lions

Luminato Festival, Malpaso Dance Company, Osnel Delgado, Aszure Barton, Ohad Naharin

Dreaming of Lions, Indomitable Waltz & Tabula Rasa

Performance | Spectacle

Toronto ON
June 15-16 juin 2018
Friday June 15th & Saturday June 16th @8pm
Cuban, Contemporary

Luminato Festival, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Teaċ Daṁsa

Swan Lake/Loch na hEala

Performance | Spectacle

Toronto ON
June 6-10 juin 2018
Wednesday, June 6th - Saturday, June 9th @8pm
Contemporary, Dance Theatre, Irish, Ballet

Writers & Readers

BRODSKY / BARYSHNIKOV, presented solely in Russian, began with the faint playing of music and had an almost haunting air as Baryshnikov entered the stage through a large gazebo set piece. His presence, although strong, was beautifully presented as a man seemingly pensive, withered and engrossed in contemplation as he quietly whispered to himself while carrying his briefcase.

Posted February 2, 2018

Baryshnikov's Ties to Canada

Famed Soviet-American dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov will make a rare return to Toronto to perform in the Canadian premiere of BRODSKY / BARYSHNIKOV. The Dance Current asked Baryshnikov about his time in Canada and he responded by highlighting his relationships within the ballet community.

Posted January 23, 2018

Carrying a Collective Burden

Michael Greyeyes and Yvette Nolan’s Bearing By Emma Doran

Bearing is a dance opera co-created by Yvette Nolan, Michael Greyeyes and a cast of dancers, actors, singers and musicians, that will become a vital piece of Canadian theatre. Working with the idea that every Canadian has been in some way impacted by the disgraceful legacy of residential schools, the work is meant to encourage a collective carrying of the burden of this ugly and still present history. Bearing is a high concept work that offers a new model for catharsis via theatrical embodiment.

Posted August 5, 2017

On the Ground

Dance at Toronto’s Luminato Festival 2016

By Miya Shaffer

Of the dance I saw, both A Study on Effort and a performance by Yes Yes Y’all demonstrated a sense of adventure while keeping to Luminato’s larger, and founding, vision.

Posted July 4, 2016

Dance at Luminato 2016

Yes Yes Y’all is a Toronto-based collective working to connect the city’s queer and hip hop communities through large dancehall parties. This video features one of said dance parties.

Posted June 15, 2016

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Festival | Festival

Toronto ON
June 10-19 juin 2015
Various

The Beginning of the End (and Why it Should Happen Again)

By Sky Fairchild-Waller Apocalypsis R. Murray Schafer

Welcome to the beginning of the end, also known as Apocalypsis, R. Murray Schafer’s two-hour oratorio chronicling the demise of the world and its laboured regenesis. The mood, more than fittingly, isn’t a light one; 1000 singers, musicians, and dancers gather to perform the opening and closing ceremonies of this Olympic-sized pageant of death and rebirth, and you made it into the theatre and to your seat, which was was no small feat.

Posted July 28, 2015

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