Author: DanceWorks Staff

This season we presented commissions and co-productions from artists whose work emerges from diverse points of view. Our Mainstage season included Toronto based companies tiger princess dance projects, Throwdown Collective, and inDANCE, and from Vancouver Wen Wei Dance and Shay Kuebler. Our CoWorks presentations included Joshua Beamish, Kẹmi Projects, Form...

Radical System Art’s Artistic Director, Shay Kuebler, explores the glorification of violence in media culture for his new work, Glory. The piece includes a versatile performance language of martial arts, street dance, and contemporary choreography, while integrating film clips, gaming battles, and even lighting tricks. We spoke to Shay about...

Hari Krishnan, Artistic Director of inDANCE, talks South Asian dance, cultural appropriation, collaboration, and Big Macs in this candid interview*. DANCEWORKS: The title of the show is Holy Cow(s)! Can you tell us more about this compelling title? HARI: In an oblique way, I’m a Holy Cow myself. I am...

We are looking ahead to March with inDANCE’s world premiere of Holy Cow(s)!, choreographed by Artistic Director Hari Krishnan. Holy Cow(s)! runs March 23 through March 25 at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre. A highly personal work from Hari Krishnan, Holy Cow(s)! is a subversive and physically complex full-length dance production,...

Mairéad Filgate, choreographer and dancer with Throwdown Collective, tells us about her teen dancing days, a stint as a Moldovan acrobatic, and the upcoming Throwdown Collective show. DANCEWORKS: Can you talk about your early professional dancing days? Who were some of the choreographers you first worked with? What kind of...

DanceWorks presents Yvonne Ng/tiger princess dance projects’s In Search of the Holy Chop Suey and Zhong Xin on November 24 -26 at 8pm. We spoke with choreographer Yvonne Ng about the upcoming world premieres and her creative process, which included working with the dancers in isolation from each other for...