June 14, 2017: Mimi Beck, Dance Curator of acclaimed presenter DanceWorks announces the 2017-18 season featuring eight Toronto-based artists/companies and one Indigenous company from Vancouver. From Flamenco, Kathak, Indigenous and Hip-Hop, world premieres and re-mounts from our storied past, it will be a season of surprises and surreal experiences. Curator’s...
Keep up with the latest at DanceWorks.
Congratulations to DanceWorks’ Dora Mavor Moore Awards Nominees
Congratulations to artists presented on our 2016/17 season who are nominated for Dora Mavor Moore Awards in the Dance Division. They are:- OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DanceWorks/tiger princess productions In Search Of The Holy Chop Suey DanceWorks CoWorks/Kemi Dance Projects Kittly Bender OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY Jennifer Dallas/CoWorks Kittly Bender Yvonne Ng In...
That’s A Wrap!
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...
Company 605 on stage
As Company 605 makes their way across Canada, Vital Few performance photographs have offered a peek at what Toronto audiences can expect on May 7. The work features six dancers who share in the creative process and push the company to further explore the essence of unison and togetherness,...
Martial Arts+Gaming For Kuebler
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...
Brian Solomon’s Re-Mix
As part of the upcoming Indigenous Dance Double Bill, our CoWorks series will present Brian Solomon’s the NDN way. Here, we ask Brian about story telling and re-imagining in his new work. DANCEWORKS: the NDN way is inspired by an original recording of Cree storyteller Ron Evans. Can you tell...