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The Dance Centre presents a program of events celebrating the art of dance for International Dance Day. Free afternoon events at 800 Robson Plaza offer workshops with OURO Collective, VanVogueJam and Hustle at RS Dance Society. In the evening, Action at a Distance premieres an innovative new work, Soft Currents, at Scotiabank Dance Centre. Initiated in 1982 by UNESCO, International Dance Day is...
Amidst many Asian Heritage Month festivities, ahmm veers left via small batch intimate events at Odd Meridian’s cultural space, Morrow. ahmm invites rupture, nurture, defiance and bows in deep reverence, to all things queer. Expect a spirited and gently subversive affair with performances of dance, song, poetry; movement workshops; an exhibit of shrines; a gender non-binary lion named Fluffy; and more!
Queer pop sensation and the world’s top Lady Gaga impersonator Athena Reich’s outrageous hit off-Broadway show “Lady Gaga #ARTBIRTH” returns to Toronto for a limited final run! Join a super preggers Lady Gaga in a cabaret-style show backed by the most stunning dancers as she gives birth in front of her most devoted fans as "the ultimate performance art piece” from May 2nd to...
Ballet Kelowna closes its 2023/24 Season of Drama with the highly anticipated return of Macbeth, the Company’s first commissioned, full-length ballet, at the Kelowna Community Theatre on May 3 + 4, 2024. Choreographed by Canadian Alysa Pires, Macbeth features Ballet Kelowna’s full Company of dancers. Guest artist Jake Poloz will make his debut as Macbeth while senior artist Desiree Bortolussi is set to reprise her role...
signals to segue, a new creation by Artistic Director, Jolene Bailie, showcasing an all-Winnipeg team including an ensemble of dancers, plus original sound by Emma Hendrix and lighting by Hugh Conacher! Known for highly physical and complex work, Bailie creates experimental works that are visual, abstract, and reflective. Always athletic, Bailie has presented new creations for Winnipeg audiences annually for...
Queer pop sensation and the world’s top Lady Gaga impersonator Athena Reich’s outrageous hit off-Broadway show “Lady Gaga #ARTBIRTH” returns to Toronto for a limited final run! Join a super preggers Lady Gaga in a cabaret-style show backed by the most stunning dancers as she gives birth in front of her most devoted fans as "the ultimate performance art piece” from May 2nd to...
Curious about how you can use technology in your own projects but don’t know where to start? This is the perfect place! We are excited to share our research through a compiled living database resource that highlights different softwares, online tools and creative pipelines. Chimerik’s Virtual Live Art Database cultivates a space to learn, grow and network. You are invited...
RÊVERIE is full-length creation by renowned choreographer and dancer, Jera Wolfe. The world premiere of this youthful meditation on friendship, hope and promise will be presented by the dancers in La compagnie de danse contemporaine du Québec (CDCQ), which is based on Montreal’s south shore and directed by Jeremy Raia.
Put on your slippers, get yourself a drink, and take in three artistic offerings during an eclectic and lively evening for the inaugural season of LABdiff! Following three weeks of exploratory research in our very own underground, Espace Vert, the artists will offer you the fruit of their experiments in the form of a public presentation. With this new presentation...
Ballet Kelowna closes its 2023/24 Season of Drama with the highly anticipated return of Macbeth, the Company’s first commissioned, full-length ballet, at the Kelowna Community Theatre on May 3 + 4, 2024. Choreographed by Canadian Alysa Pires, Macbeth features Ballet Kelowna’s full Company of dancers. Guest artist Jake Poloz will make his debut as Macbeth while senior artist Desiree Bortolussi is set to reprise her role...
signals to segue, a new creation by Artistic Director, Jolene Bailie, showcasing an all-Winnipeg team including an ensemble of dancers, plus original sound by Emma Hendrix and lighting by Hugh Conacher! Known for highly physical and complex work, Bailie creates experimental works that are visual, abstract, and reflective. Always athletic, Bailie has presented new creations for Winnipeg audiences annually for...
Queer pop sensation and the world’s top Lady Gaga impersonator Athena Reich’s outrageous hit off-Broadway show “Lady Gaga #ARTBIRTH” returns to Toronto for a limited final run! Join a super preggers Lady Gaga in a cabaret-style show backed by the most stunning dancers as she gives birth in front of her most devoted fans as "the ultimate performance art piece” from May 2nd to...
Queer pop sensation and the world’s top Lady Gaga impersonator Athena Reich’s outrageous hit off-Broadway show “Lady Gaga #ARTBIRTH” returns to Toronto for a limited final run! Join a super preggers Lady Gaga in a cabaret-style show backed by the most stunning dancers as she gives birth in front of her most devoted fans as "the ultimate performance art piece” from May 2nd to...
signals to segue, a new creation by Artistic Director, Jolene Bailie, showcasing an all-Winnipeg team including an ensemble of dancers, plus original sound by Emma Hendrix and lighting by Hugh Conacher! Known for highly physical and complex work, Bailie creates experimental works that are visual, abstract, and reflective. Always athletic, Bailie has presented new creations for Winnipeg audiences annually for...
signals to segue, a new creation by Artistic Director, Jolene Bailie, showcasing an all-Winnipeg team including an ensemble of dancers, plus original sound by Emma Hendrix and lighting by Hugh Conacher! Known for highly physical and complex work, Bailie creates experimental works that are visual, abstract, and reflective. Always athletic, Bailie has presented new creations for Winnipeg audiences annually for...
Eunoia is a dance-theatre production and adaptation of Christian Bök’s award-winning book of poetry of the same name. It is a conceptual book written in the form of a lipogram where each of its five chapters is constrained to the use of one vowel. It is much lauded as a work, won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, and became a bestseller...
Eunoia is a dance-theatre production and adaptation of Christian Bök’s award-winning book of poetry of the same name. It is a conceptual book written in the form of a lipogram where each of its five chapters is constrained to the use of one vowel. It is much lauded as a work, won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, and became a bestseller...
Eunoia is a dance-theatre production and adaptation of Christian Bök’s award-winning book of poetry of the same name. It is a conceptual book written in the form of a lipogram where each of its five chapters is constrained to the use of one vowel. It is much lauded as a work, won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, and became a bestseller...
Because in these times, do we know for sure what love is? Featuring new work by dancer and choreographer, José Maldonado (Barcelona), performed by Toronto-based dancers Pamela Briz, Nancy Cardwell, VirginiaCastro Durán, Rocío Conde, Alison MacDonald, and as always, Artistic Director Esmeralda Enrique, with live flamenco guitarists, Caroline Planté (Montréal) andBenjamin Barrile (Toronto) and acclaimed singers, Manuel Soto (Jerez, Spain)...
Eunoia is a dance-theatre production and adaptation of Christian Bök’s award-winning book of poetry of the same name. It is a conceptual book written in the form of a lipogram where each of its five chapters is constrained to the use of one vowel. It is much lauded as a work, won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, and became a bestseller...
Because in these times, do we know for sure what love is? Featuring new work by dancer and choreographer, José Maldonado (Barcelona), performed by Toronto-based dancers Pamela Briz, Nancy Cardwell, VirginiaCastro Durán, Rocío Conde, Alison MacDonald, and as always, Artistic Director Esmeralda Enrique, with live flamenco guitarists, Caroline Planté (Montréal) andBenjamin Barrile (Toronto) and acclaimed singers, Manuel Soto (Jerez, Spain)...
Because in these times, do we know for sure what love is? Featuring new work by dancer and choreographer, José Maldonado (Barcelona), performed by Toronto-based dancers Pamela Briz, Nancy Cardwell, VirginiaCastro Durán, Rocío Conde, Alison MacDonald, and as always, Artistic Director Esmeralda Enrique, with live flamenco guitarists, Caroline Planté (Montréal) andBenjamin Barrile (Toronto) and acclaimed singers, Manuel Soto (Jerez, Spain)...
The epitome of classical ballet. A great love story. Tchaikovsky’s scintillating music. Destrooper brings new complexity and choreography to this spellbinding ballet. Prince Siegfried’s love with maiden-turned-white-swan Odette is tested by evil sorcerer Rothbart and his black-swan enchantress, Odile.