Lilia Leon is a Mexican-Canadian performing artist with Mestizo heritage. Lilia’s versatile career as a dancer, actor, choreographer and arts educator, has led to collaborations with Indigenous, Canadian, and Latin American artists, who have left an imprint on her artistic practice. Lilia holds a B.A. in dance from York University and...
Author: DanceWorks Staff
Dance Ontario’s DanceWeekend’18
DanceWorks kicks off the new year with a CoWorks presentation of Dance Ontario's DanceWeekend'18. Founded in 1976 to support the advancement of the discipline, Dance Ontario is a dynamic cross-section of the dance sector with a membership that reflects the province’s diversity through internationally renowned companies, emerging collectives, teachers, studios,...
Interview with Choreographer and Performer Margaret Grenier
Flicker, directed by choreographer and performer Margaret Grenier, is a multi-media dance piece performed by Vancouver-based Indigenous dance company, Dancers of Damelahamid of the Gitxsan Nation. The Gitxsan, “people of the river of mists”, are part of the coastal group of cultures renowned for their history of masked dance. Here,...
Rock Bottom Movement’s A Chorus Line meets Big Brother
Rock Bottom Movement's string quartet no. 14 in g major is a dance theatre work about moving on and dreaming big, characterized as "A Chorus Line meets Big Brother Canada". A creation myth about Rock Bottom Movement’s next step after losing a cherished company member to the lure of musical...
Corpus’ House Guests
The first CoWorks of the season is CORPUS' House Guests. The work invites twenty guests to discover the mysterious and enchanting content of 8, Baden Street (CORPUS' Artistic Director's own house). Remodeled as a museum of contemporary performances, this private dwelling features fourteen spaces ranging from a bedroom to a...
Interview with Johanna Householder, Co-Founder of DanceWorks
In anticipation of our 40th Anniversary show, we spoke to Johanna Householder, co-founder of DanceWorks, performance artist, and professor at OCAD University. Johanna reflects on DanceWorks' early days, memorable performances, and the Toronto dance scene. DanceWorks: Can you talk about how DanceWorks came about? What was the initial impulse for...