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New work at Festival of New Dance

Made up of live performance, workshops and community events, the Festival of New Dance opens tomorrow, October 7, in St. John’s, NL. This year’s lineup includes Dulcinea’s Lament by Dulcinea Langfelder (below), The Muted Note by Susanna Hood and Scott Thomson, Left by Joe Ink, the worth of by Sarah Joy Stoker, EESTI: Myths and Machines by Peter Trosztmer, Inheritor Album by 605 Collective, Siren by Joe Leslie, Affair of the Heart by Jo Leslie, Pants on Fire by Louise Moyes and Infinity Doughnut by Katie Ward (above). “I see Infinity Doughnut as a blind and imaginative system of navigation exploring inanimate and also human phenomena,” says Ward. The full-length work premieres in St. John’s before touring to Tangente in Montréal in November, Centennial Theatre in Lennoxville, QC, in February 2015 and TBC: Nottdance Festival in Nottingham, UK, in March 2015. The Festival of New Dance has been presented annually since 1990 by Neighbourhood Dance Works.

Posted October 6, 2014

Fearless Physicality

Professional wrestlers are athletes, performers, actors, dancers, gymnasts and comedians, and their sport has more in common with a ballet than with an episode of reality TV. Take a deeper look at the astonishing athleticism and theatricality within the world of pro wrestling.

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