Holla Jazz’s The Room Upstairs
April 29 - May 2, 2026
Coming Up! Holla Jazz’s The Room Upstairs
April 29 - May 2, 2026 at 7:30pm at the Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street
The Room Upstairs is a new work inspired by and set to the music of John Coltrane. An ensemble work accompanied by live music that uses the dancing language of jazz, lindy hop, and black vernacular dances, The Room Upstairs is a world that holds space for devotion, camaraderie, and grief.
Presented by DanceWorks and Toronto Dance Theatre + Co-produced by DanceWorks and Holla Jazz in collaboration with Toronto Dance Theatre
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Photo credit: LOT X by adelheid. Choreography by Heidi Strauss. Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh. Performers (clockwise from bottom left): Luke Garwood, Lukas Malkowski, Alana Elmer, Naishi Wang, Sahara Morimoto, Anna Finkel.
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