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Blue ceiling dance presents a DanceWorks CoWorks Series Event
a tale of amnesia
music by Radiohead
Dancemakers Centre For Creation, Distillery District
February 28th to March 3rd 8 pm
Mar 4th 2:30 pm
Vibrant, dreamy, and disarming, two amnesiac dancers and a giant antelope head dive and swoop into the land of forgetting. Music by Radiohead.
Created by Lucy Rupert, a choreographer with "an immense imagination" (Globe & Mail), with creative collaborators Jenn Goodwin, Barbara Pallomina, and Sarah Chase.
"an orchid blossoming"
National Post
"[Lucy Rupert] dances like someone with something important to say. It is hard to take your eyes off her."
National Post
Tickets $!5-$20 (Sunday PWYC)
Box office and info 416 204 1082
www.danceworks.ca
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COBA (Collective of Black Artists)
presents
March 2–3, 2007, 8 pm
March 4, 2007, 3 pm
Premiere Dance Theatre
A part of Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps program
COBA’s 14th season is an encore offering of audience favourites that evoke the true heart & soul of African & Caribbean dance. With Portrait, a provocative trio set to the legendary Nina Simone; Saraca, a Yoruba ritual of celebration and thanksgiving; and Primal Fête, artistic co-founders Bakari E. Lindsay and Charmaine Headley have positioned COBA as a performance collective with a definitive movement aesthetic that addresses social themes and is rooted in the rich legacy of African history.
“ COBA balances the books between provocative statement and entertainment. This is rare in a Canadian performance company."
—Paula Citron, The Globe & Mail
For more information please visit www.cobainc.com
Tickets
General $30, $25 Student/Senior
NextSteps Package Prices $25, $20
www.harbourfrontcentre.com
In Person
York Quay Centre Box Office
235 Queens Quay West
Tuesday to Saturday
1pm - 6pm | 1pm - 8pm if there is an evening performance
By Phone: 416-973-4000 | Option 1
COBA’s DEEKALI: Roots Re-lived II is supported by...
Back after 10 years!
IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
FEBRUARY 16 – 17 ONLY
The Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts
"There are moments when you watch the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and begin to believe that the figures on stage are not quite real. The human body can't really move like that… defies human limits." - Chicago Sun-Times
TORONTO, Ontario – For more than 45 years, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has dazzled audiences from New York City to South Africa to China with unparalleled artistry. After a long awaited return, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is back at The Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts for three performances only from February 16 – 17, 2007.
Through captivating performances and unparalleled artistry, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has been fulfilling Alvin Ailey’s vision that “dance is for everybody… dance came from the people and it should always be delivered back to the people.” From jazz-inspired works and intimate portraits to explosive epics teeming with passion, “one cannot deny the genius behind Ailey’s…stirring eloquence,” says the Washington Post.
Led by Artistic Director Judith Jamison, this magnificent company celebrates an exhilarating performance, drawing inspiration from a variety of experiences - life’s joy, sorrows, passions, beauty and ultimate truths. Their unmistakable style and unsurpassed talent, continue to leave audiences breathless.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform several works from its classic repertory–including Revelations, Ailey’s signature masterpiece that explores African American spirituals, encompassing songs of love, struggle, and deliverance. The engagement will also include new dances by some of today’s most exciting, daring, and visionary choreographers.
Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster by calling 416-872-2262 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.ca <http://www.ticketmaster.ca/> , or in person at The Hummingbird Centre Box Office, 1 Front Street East, Toronto GROUPS of 10 or more call: 416-393-7463 or 1-866-737-0805
Sashar Zarif Dance Company brings ancient Sufi mysticism to the contemporary stage in mesmerizing new choreography for two nights onlyA DanceWorks/CoWorks Series Event • March 23 and 24, 2007, Betty Oliphant Theatre.
Born in Iran of Azerbaijani heritage Sashar Zarif came to Canada in 1987. Following studies in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Zarif achieved a Diploma of Performing Arts at theConservatory of Dance and Music in Baku, Azerbaijan becoming an Artist for the People. Founder of Joshgoon Canadian Academy of Azerbaijani Dance and Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre (1993) and Dancers for Peace (2001), Zarif is well known as an engaging teacher and a powerful dancer who has performed and taught throughout Europe, Central Asia and Mongolia. Zarif is also acquiring an international reputation as an enigmatic and gifted horeographer as acknowledged locally with the Paula Citron TDIF Award in 2006 for his
masterful solo In the Letters My Name, a collaboration with Holly Small.
His new creation Meeting with Saghi, has grown out of years of ethnographic fieldwork in Central Asia, Iran and Azerbaijan. This work reveals Zarif’s journey to connect his worldly experience to his spiritual existence. In Meeting with Saghi he weaves together contemporized Persian Sufi music, poetry (Rumi, Hafiz, Omar Khayyam), and calligraphy (inspiring movement lines and flow) in this intuitive exploration of the lost mystical dance of Saghi, the adored wine-bearer. Saghi is the provider of inspiration, the bearer of enlightenment who offers the symbolic imbibing of wine, the elixir that brings mystical love and divine intoxication.
The evocative tapestry created by Zarif and his dancers in Meeting with Saghi connects the threads of ancient mysticism to the present day in a multi-layered dance performance, with original sound score, to reveal an expression of earthly love, beauty and the Divine. This bringing forward of the past may be a tonic for our sullen era as we open our eyes and let the experience wash over us. When the uncommon becomes familiar we find we are all connected by what we feel in our hearts.
You will be dazzled, transfixed and transformed by Meeting with Saghi created with composer Pirouz Yousefian working in the Persian music tradition of improvisation and collaborators; dramaturge, Soheil Parsa; lighting designer, Arun Srinivasan and sound designer, Laurel MacDonald.
Following the 60 minute performance join Zarif downstairs at the theatre. to discover more about the lost dance of the Saghi in this gallery of authentic costumes, books and documentation of the places it originated and Zarif’s own travels and research.
Meeting with Saghi
Friday, March 23 & Saturday, March 24 at 8 PM
Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis Street
Tickets: $25 & $18 Students and CADA members
Box Office: DanceWorks - 416 204 1082
Further information: www.sashardance.com
Come oh Saghi, and serve up that wine
Unto which my heart and faith belong,
Strip me of self, for drunkenness
Is the only rite I profess.
METRO-CENTRAL YMCA
20 GROSVENOR ST.
(North of College, West of Yonge)
March 31st @ 8:08 PM
$8.00
Series 8:08 is a monthly performance workshop showcasing new dance ideas, works in development and newly completed works choreographed by professional and emerging Canadian choreographers. The audience becomes a part of the exciting creative process by giving the artists written feedback about the works they see. An open-dialogue between the choreographers and the audience is encouraged at our post-performance meet and greet.
This month’s Series 8:08 choreographers: Mary Ann Lacey, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Sally Morgan, Emma Romerein, and Heather Saum.
Info. Line (416) 504-6429 x 40, www.series808.ca <http://www.series808.ca>
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