“There’s a huge dance component at the Montreal Fringe,” says Helen Simard of Solid State Breakdance. “I’d say it’s almost 30 per cent of the festival.”
BY Lynda Spark
It would be foolish, I suppose, to think that there could be a performance piece about a slaughterhouse that would not involve dancers depicting animals. It is, as well, probably impossible to have ...
BY David Balzer
The title of multidisciplinary artist Peter Chin’s latest performance, opening next week as part of Harbourfront’s ongoing WorldStage program, is Transmission of the Invisible, a phrase that ...
BY Jeff Harrison
Choreographer D.A. Hoskins’ dance triptych Art Fag is at once angry, sensual, tender and jarring. In the opening piece, “Hard Candy,” Danielle Baskerville and Brendan Wyatt explore ...
Fond memories of the enduringly popular film and stage musical West Side Story are the obvious bait for the National Ballet of Canada’s season opener,...
For Gordon’s interdisciplinary eight-hour-long performance piece On My Knees, the theatre artist embarked on a heavily documented journey to crawl across Toronto to the waterfront in a wedding dress as a public divorce ceremony. Her project ...
Watching a performance of the Ballet Creole is an electrifying experience that will have your heart racing, your stomach lurching and your head spinning in reaction to the pure energy and astonishing force of the troupe.