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Presented by
the Little Pear Garden Collective
Papermill Theatre, Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum
67 Pottery Road, Toronto, ON (west of Broadview Ave. )
FREE admission.
Limited seating, please arrive early. Free on-site parking.
Presented in partnership with the City of Toronto Culture Division and with the assistance of the Chinese Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario), Inc.
Danceworks presents
with Corpus Dance Projects
Harbourfront Centre Theatre,
231 Queens Quay West
May 4-6, 2006, 8 pm
$25 General Admission $16 students
Box Office: 416-973-4000
A new full-length duet by Corpus’ charming twosome, Sylvie Bouchard and David Danzon. Tragic denouements or happy endings emerge from classic romantic tales inspired by Adam and Eve, Romeo and Juliet, Bonnie and Clyde, or Barbie and Ken. Longtime collaborator Peter Mundinger (a close artistic partner on Nuit blanche and Bridge of Sighs) will compose the music. CORPUS’ unique and stylish dance concepts are both artistic and entertaining weaving modern dance with the theatre of the absurd. Anticipate a delightful and memorable evening from a group known for creating “layers of complex subtext” (Globe & Mail) and “…irresistibly ingenious charm” (Michael Crabb, National Post)
Concept & Choreography: Sylvie Bouchard & David Danzon
Directed by: David Danzon
Performed by and created with: Sylvie Bouchard & William Yong
Harbourfront Centre Theatre (231 Queens Quay West)
$25 General Admission $16 students
Box Office: 416-973-4000
For more information please visit www.danceworks.ca
Suddenly Dance Theatre invites you to enter a place where dance meets spoken word.
Andrea Nann, photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
A dance/word laboratory designed to expose its audience to the powerful union between verbal and nonverbal meaning, present/tense acts as a meeting place for writers to read short pieces of their work while dancers receive the impetus to respond to sound, intent and personal meaning.
Thursday, May 4th 2006 @ 8pm
at the Metro Studio Theatre, 1141 Quadra Street
Victoria, B.C. Canada
Tickets: $16 Students, $20 General at the door or online (Paypal) at http://www.suddenlydance.ca
Directed by Lori Hamar and Jill Margo
featuring Victoria’s resident published writers and professional modern dancers!
DANCERS
Brandy Baybutt
Jung ah Chung
Constance Cooke
David FergusonLori Hamar
Stacey Horton
Mariko Ihara
Hugh Macpherson
Lynda Raino
Kimberly Tuson
WRITERS
De De Cranston
Sara Cassidy
John Gould
Justin McGrail
Janet Rogers
Linda Rogers
Charles Tidler
Patricia Young
... and more!
with special guest ANDREA NANN from Toronto in a solo performance of Meditation #5: Of Loss and Desire, a recorded vocal collaboration with Michael Ondaatje.
PLUS a FREE afternoon workshop with Andrea Nann offering a unique interactive creative opportunity for participants to explore drama, text, and movement (2:30-4 pm) at the Metro Studio Theatre.
Sign up for this free workshop by emailing info@suddenlydance.ca
Space is limited and is on a first-come basis!
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.suddenlydance.ca
Contact: Lori Hamar / 250 388 0600
Suddenly Dance Theatre
P.O. Box 8184
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada
V8W 3R8
'To reorganize chance – That is the basis of our work.'
– Jean Cocteau
Poetry for the Eyes
Saturday, May 6th
7:30 pm @ The Port Theatre
Tickets: $25-$35
Port Theatre Box Office: (250) 754-8550
In this unique performance, Michael Ondaatje’s moving text leaps off the page as dance!
Andrea Nann (Toronto) has created two stunningly beautiful dances under the directorial eye of Mr. Ondaatje himself that are based on his novel’s Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion. Michael Ondaatje will present a 30 minute reading between these elegant and accessible dances.
Following the performance, there will be a reception and book signing with these artists. A portion of the proceeds from the book revenue and the reception ticket price are being donated to a Sri Lankan based, tsunami relief fund that is close to the heart of the Ondaatje family. It is called Helping Hands.
Please join us Saturday, May 6 at 7:30 and be a part of this extraordinary and unique experience.
READINGS by Michael Ondaatje, Author of the English Patient
DANCE by Andrea Nann with Gerald Michaud and Kate Holden
CELLO by Anne Bourne
Saturday May 6, 7:30 pm @ The Port Theatre
Tickets: $25-$35
Port Theatre Box Office: (250) 754-8550
RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING (Port Theatre lobby, 9:30 pm)
Reception Tickets: $40
Catered by 24 Carrot Catering/ Carrot On The Run, includes a glass of wine
Book Sales:
Michael Ondaatje’s books will be for sale in the lobby
www.crimsoncoastdance.org
Company Blonde Dance Projects
Presents
Including work by renowned choreographer Serge Bennathan
Wednesday May 17th at 8pm
Thursday May 18th at 8pm
At Dancemakers Studio
55 Mill Street, Building 74
Case Goods Warehouse, Suite 306
For tickets call 416.939.4696
Or email theblondes@companyblonde.com
Company Blonde is performing for two nights only on May 17th and 18th in a fundraising event for our tour to New Zealand and Australia next spring. This performance is a remount of 2 works; Serge Bennethan’s beautiful piece “Samarcande“, and our signature piece “Tilting Pretty”. The show is an hour long at the Dancemakers performance space at the Distillery. It will make for a perfect mid-week evening out, and we really need the support of our fans!Following Wednesday night’s gala performance, there will be wine and some very beautiful cheeses (included in the price of your ticket) at the reception. It will be a lot of fun, and give us all a chance to hang out and meet with everyone! Thursday night is a lower ticket price for those who want to support us but can’t make it out for the gala evening.Seating is limited in the Dancemakers space, so we are pre-selling tickets for Wednesday night. Thursday is first-come, first-serve. If you want to put your name on a list, feel free to call 416.939.4696 or email theblondes@companyblonde.com
Andrea Nann Dreamwalker Dance Company
in association with
Volcano, Pedlar Press, Harbourfront Centre
presents
May 18-20, 2006 7:30pm
Premiere Dance Theatre
Harbourfront, Toronto
Tickets on sale now
call 416-973-4000
*special rates for students/seniors/cada members/groups
Featuring
Sarah Chase
Kathleen Edwards
Andy Maize (Skydiggers) Josh Finlayson
Suzie Ungerleider (Oh Susanna)
Andrew Cash (May 18 and 19)
Peter Elkas (May 20)
Stan Dragland
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Michael Ondaatje (May 18)
Linda Spalding (May 19) Michael Winter (May 20)
Danielle Denichaud Robert Glumbek
Andrea Nann
CORPUS
Intimate and Compelling
Songwriter's Circle Writer's Circle
Dance works include the world premiere of A Certain Braided History, a
duet conceived and directed by internationally renowned dance and
storytelling artist Sarah Chase, developed, choreographed and performed
by Sarah and Andrea Nann and accompanied live by guitarist Peter Elkas,
and Reveries, a work created in 2001 by Andrea Nann in collaboration
with Gordon Downie and Gerald Michaud, featuring performances by Andy Maize, Robert Glumbek and Danielle Denichaud, co-directed by Ross Manson. The dances feature designs by Aisling Sampson, Heather MacCrimmon and Cheryl Lalonde.
Film screening of Peep Show by Corpus,
producer Kate Kung, director Robert Deleskie, performed and
choreographed by Sylvie Bouchard and David Danzon.
The show is sponsored by Ritchies Auctioneers and will
be presented as part of Asian Heritage Month.
METRO-CENTRAL YMCA
20 GROSVENOR ST.
(North of College, West of Yonge)
May 27th @ 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.
Info. Line (416) 504-6429 x 40, www.series808.ca
May 21, 2006
Noon - 6 pm at the Pia Bauman Studios
6 Noble Street Cost: $60
CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED!!
To register, call 416-504-6429 x 42
or e-mail Nina Kalynowysh at duo@danceumbrella.net
To ensure you place in the class, full payment must be received in the DUO office by Wednesday, May 17, 2006.
Sarah Chase will be teaching a masterclass in different techniques of combining storytelling and movement.
The class will begin with an extensive warm-up, designed particularly to enable to participants to tap into the unique co-ordination necessary to successfully combine spoken word and movement.
The class will explore how two lines of concentration - the body and the mind - can weave together in random patterns, creating chords of meaning. The warm-up exercises centre on cross-patterning exercises that Sarah has created or adapted from other sources; the aim of these exercises is to get both sides of the brain bright and alert as the body moves and are very specifically focused on integrating the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
Other parts of the class will concentrate on biography and techniques Sarah has developed to stimulate memory and to find patterns and symbols embedded in biographical stories.
The course will give the participants new ways to view their own creative work and will provide practical techniques on how words and movement can cross-pollinate to create unexpected and rich material.
The class is open to experienced dancers, actors and writers. Experience in dance/movement is helpful but not essential.
Sarah Chase
sarah chase
Sarah Cahse is an internationally renowned dancer/choreographer and teacher. She has been teaching modern dance technique classes since 1991. She studied for a year with Irene Dowd in New York and has taught aspects of the Dowd work to students in Amsterdam and in Arnem at the School for New Dance Development. For several years she taught at the Teacher's Collective, and as a guest teacher at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She has studied Skinner releasing technique since 1993 and in 1995 she received her teacher's certification from Joan Skinner. Since then she has taught this work in Leuven, Belgium at Klapstuk, in Salzburg for the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, for Ballet Met in Ohio and has taught many three-day intensives here in Toronto. She uses the Skinner Releasing work as part of her daily practice and is intimately connected to its application to her dance life.
In the last five years she has begun teaching workshops in story telling/movement and is eveloping an extensive pedagogy in relation to her unique performance style that she calls “dancestory”.
Sarah taught dance and story telling in Peggy Baker's intensive held at the NBS in August of 2005. That intensive culminated with the studio performances of The Passenger and The Disappearance of Right and Left. Since October of 2005, she has been involved in the mentoring program of Main Dance, working with student Lyndsay Alford, creating a solo for her titled Just to carry yourself back to me unspoiled. This was performed April 20 and 21 at the Roundhouse in Vancouver, and will represent Main Dance at the Canada Dance Festival in June. Sarah has created the duet A certain braided history with Andrea Nann that was performed at the Jack Shadbolt Center in Burnaby, B.C. on May 14 and will be part of The Whole Shebang ’06 in Toronto at the Premiere Dance Theatre May 18,19,20, and on Hornby in August at the Hornby Island Festival. Upcoming projects include a tour of The Passenger to Munich as well as Toronto, Ottawa, Lethbridge and Peterborough; and a full evening commission for Montreal Danse to preimere in Spring 2008.
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