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Follow Your Heart by Evolution Dance Theatre

Follow Your Heart is a multidisciplinary spectacle that unites cultures through theatre, dance, live music and the most universal of stories – a love story.

The show features forty-five dancers onstage and brings together an equally impressive amount of collaborators behind the scenes. In this video made during the workshop process in 2014, Artistic Director of Evolution Dance Theatre, Armineh Keshishian, explains how she, a Christian raised in a Muslim country, came to create dance theatre that unites cultures. “One heartbeat, one culture, one race,” is her mantra.

Follow Your Heart runs September 22-25 at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts.

Posted September 20, 2016

Caribana is Our Stage

Themes of becoming, shaping from and returning to are central to Caribbean performance arts. As one of these art forms, Carnival is a nuanced performance art practice rooted in the cultural memory of the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout Canada and the diaspora. But whose story is told (or not told) and in what context? The telling or omission of stories can be traced to a lack of understanding of the complexity of the Caribbean and its Carnival – a performance tradition that is more than the mass commodification, sexuality and “loud music” we often associate it with.

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Creature at In Situ Festival

Mississauga-based artist Colleen Snell is known for her highly theatrical and site-specific dance work, and her newest creation, Creature, will be no exception.

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