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AWAKENING!
An Urban Musical story of a Dancer
Artistic Direction by Tamla Matthews and Lennox Glasgow

The journey of no two dancers is the same and therein lies a graphic and uncompromising story of a dancer.  Awakening is an urban musical dance theatre production based on the transformational journey of a dancer. A dubious love affair with dance, grounded in a supportive cocoon fuelled by culture and spirituality. Gripping in its historical content, a little girl dreams to be a successful dancer and learns that the hardest journey is not upward, but inward. More »

DanceWorks, the city’s longest-running contemporary dance series, presents the Toronto premiere of El12, from Montreal-based flamenco troupe La Otra Orilla (The Other Shore) running Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24 at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre. More »

DanceWorks presents Vancouver’s acclaimed Wen Wei Dance in Cock-Pit

Vancouver’s  acclaimed Wen Wei Dance performs Cock-Pit, running Friday, April 9 through Saturday, April 10, 2010 at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre.

A revealing, and ravishing quintet for four men and one woman that touches on adolescent sexual awakening, Cock-Pit is inspired by Wen Wei Wang’s memories of his student days in China at a boarding school run by the People’s Liberation Army. More »

BALLET CREOLE
“SANKOFA”
20th Anniversary Season of Dance
“A Retrospective of Ground breaking Afro-Caribbean and Contemporary Dance”
Fleck Dance Theatre
April 15th _ 17th 2010  More »

Capitalizing on the tremendous sold-out success of The Kreutzer Sonata last season, the Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of founder Andrew Burashko, re-stages this outstanding concert evening inspired by and featuring Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata (Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47) at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre from March 18-21, 2010. More »

The York Dance Ensemble (YDE), the spirited young repertory company of York University’s Dance Department, leaps into the limelight with patriotic fervour with Strong and Free, running March 4 to 6 at the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre.

Subtitled From Living Legacies to Emerging Forces, this dynamic celebration of Canadian dance features classic and new works by renowned and rising choreographers – a trajectory of Canadian dance accomplishment spanning more than six decades. More »

Celebrating her 32nd anniversary in dance, Denise Fujiwara premieres Lost & Found, a mesmerizing solo that integrates Butoh dance with improvisation as it contemplates impermanence and the self.

DanceWorks presents an Extraordinary Shared Program featuring Denise Fujiwara in Lost and Found and Susie Burpee in Fidelity’s Edge. More »

relay
Ame Henderson/Public Recordings
WORLD PREMIERE
Apr. 7-10, 8 p.m., $15 – $30
Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage

Description: relay is a collaborative choreographic experiment for 8 performers and 2 musicians. Public Recordings’ Artistic Director Ame Henderson has invited these exceptional artists to come together to make a performance that asks important questions about the politics and possibility of being together.

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During Black History Month, Toronto’s leading black dance company, COBA (Collective of Black Artists) presents Diasporic Dimensions, running Friday, February 26 through Sunday, February 28, 2010 at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre.

The program explores the richness of Africa and the Diaspora, from Mali to Haiti as it premieres 3 new works and reprises Maa Keeba, co-Artistic Director BaKari E. Lindsay’s tribute to the late legendary singer Miriam Makeba. More »

inDANCE presents bold and provocative new work
BOX
Bharatanatyam & Bollywood with an Attitude

Following its critically acclaimed debut in New York City in April 2009, inDANCE is proud to present BOX at Toronto’s Fleck Dance Theatre March 18 to 20, 2010. BOX will be performed as part of a retrospective in celebration of the company’s 10-year anniversary. More »

Peggy Baker Dance Projects presents
confluence
a fascinating collision of science and art

Award-winning dancer and choreographer Peggy Baker unveils confluence – a triptych of dance works inspired by the work of Montreal visual artist Sylvia Safdie and by the science essays of Lewis Thomas in his ’70s classic, The Lives of a Cell. More »

World Stage at Harbourfront Centre
Dance/Theatre
Loin… (Far…)
Rachid Ouramdane/L’A (France)

On the very cutting edge of performance art, Ouramdane is an acclaimed choreographer who incorporates dance, video, a pedal-controlled sound score and beat-inspired poetry into Loin… (Far…) In this piece, Ouramdane follows his father’s journey as an Algerian soldier in the French Army during colonial occupation of Indochina. An investigation of violence, war and ultimately identity. More »

World Stage 2009-10 Performing Arts Season
Do Animals Cry

U.S.-born and Europe-based choreographer Meg Stuart brings her extraordinary company Damaged Goods to World Stage. After a recent premiere at Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse, France, Stuart’s latest piece Do Animals Cry makes it’s Toronto debut. Fascinated by the fragile and flawed human condition, this work delves deeply into the complex relationships of parents and children. More »

The Theatre Centre is thrilled to be able to offer you a rare opportunity to experience the breathtaking WHITE CABIN by the award-winning and internationally acclaimed Russian physical theatre company Akhe.
January 29 + 30, 2010 @ 8pm
Tickets: $20

To book: 416-538-0988
100-1087 Queen Street West More »

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is proud to present the world premiere of Artistic Director Christopher House’s latest work, Pteros Tactics, running Tuesday, February 16 through Saturday, February 20, 2010 at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre. More »

roadkill
Splintergroup (Australia)

An unsettling piece of dance theatre by the trio Splintergroup. A manic ride down the highway of misconceptions about the heart of Australia. A couple is stranded in the outback with a car that won’t start, a phone that doesn’t work and stranger who seems all too eager to help. Unorthodox physicality and intense drama, roadkill combines road movie with the paranoia that surrounds the outback. More »

Want a unique Holiday idea? Try SOULFUL MESSIAH, a contemporary yet urban dance production: rich, innovative and unforgettable with Los Amigos Parang Band (Hispanic Caribbean music) and tapping Sensation, David Cox.

NEW THIS YEAR! Dec 11th and Dec 13th
Los Amigos Parang Band performs Hispanic Caribbean Holiday music. More »

Older and Reckless is 10 years young!
And to celebrate this auspicious occasion, Claudia Moore, founder and curator of Older and Reckless, will feature works by some of Canada’s most outstanding contemporary dance artists,
Patricia Beatty, Denise Fujiwara, Tom Brouillette, Gerry Trentham and Jean-Pierre Perreault. More »

Zocalo Toronto presents the world premiere of a dynamic new multi-disciplinary stage production that fuses traditional drama with contemporary and Latin-style partnered dancing. Written by Zocalo Toronto’s Artistic Director Vladimir Jon Cubrt, and co-directed by Cubrt and Taylor Graham, The Weeping Salsa is a lyrical tragedy in two acts that tells a story about eros – love that is passionate, physical and urgent; about power – subjugating one’s self for the sake of the partnership; and about finding the strength to stand alone. The Weeping Salsa previews from November 13, opens November 15 and runs to November 29 at The Theatre Centre. More »

World Stage 2009-10

DV8′s Artistic Director Lloyd Newson leads a multi-ethnic cast in a poetic but unflinching exploration of tolerance, homophobia, religion, and sexuality. To Be Straight With You Incorporates dance, text, documentary, animation and film. Based on hundreds of hours of personal stories collected from individuals affected by these issues, as well as stories plucked from headlines and startling statistics from around the world. More »