Young Centre for the Performing Arts presents The Word Festival
Festival details

A 400th anniversary celebration of the King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare through stage performances, lectures, improvisation, readings, movement and song.
Fri. November 25, 2011 to Sun. November 27, 2011

Song of Solomon
The Young Centre’s Resident Artists present two, free, open studio showcases of a new multidisciplinary work based on the Song of Solomon. Featuring: Roberto Campanella, Ken MacKenzie, John Millard, Aline Morales, Andrea Nann, Patricia O’Callaghan and Gregory Oh.

Free Event! Sat. November 26 at 8:15pm, Sun. November 27 at 6:30pm

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A BravoFACT! short film directed by Nick de Pencier, Andrea Nann, and Elysha Poirier, featuring performance and choreography by Nann and Brendan Wyatt with music by Gord Downie.

Premiere screenings 9pm-2am October 1, 2011 as part of Out of Site: Contemporary Art Works on Queen Street West – Shorts Under the Stars during Nuit Blanche 2011

Animator: Elysha Poirier; Editing: Roland Schlimme; Lighting: David Duclos Producer: Mercury Films (Ontario)

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Tuesday September 27th, 2011 @ 8pm
Koerner Hall
273 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Tickets 416.408.0208
purchase online tickets.rcmusic.ca/public/hall.asp

Diasporic Genius, Royal Conservatory 2011-2012 Season, World Music, Jazz, Music From Across the Middle East Series, Royal Conservatory Presents
Andalusia to Toronto
David Buchbinder, Amanda Martinez, Michal Cohen, Bassam Bishara and Hilario Durán journey through a “golden” cultural age when Arabs, Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived, worked, and created together. w/ Aleksandar Gajic, Roberto Occhipinti, Mark Kelso, Fathi al Jarrah, John Johnson, Jamie Haddad, Roula Said, Esmeralda Enrique and Andrea Nann

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Photo: Chris Randle | Design: Peartree Design

Dreamwalker Dance Company Presents
In association with Harbourfront Centre NextSteps

The Whole Shebang 2011

March 11-12, 2011, 8:30 pm
Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
231 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto

Tickets: $38 / 22
Box office: 416.973.4000

This year’s theme – The Village – creates a magical performance environment where over 30 Canadian artists will share their individual stories and collaborate in sound, movement, image, melody and voice.

Audiences will experience an interactive show, where brick walls and balconies will act as creative backdrops for the production designers Tom Kuo (sound and visual concept), Elysha Poirier (video design), Arun Srinivasan (lighting design) and interstitial artist/animatrice Helen Yung to transform the theatre with colour and light and animals and people.

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/today.cfm?id=2759

Opening Night Gala Fundraiser
March 11 at 6:30 pm
Tickets: $135. Includes dinner for one to The Pearl Restaurant (207 Queen’s Quay West, Suite 200), one VIP ticket to The Whole Shebang 2011 at Enwave Theatre, plus a charitable tax receipt for the remaining value.
To purchase Gala tickets, please contact our Associate Producer Michael Menegon at shebangproducer@gmail.com.

Inspired by artistic director Andrea Nann, the 2011 production of The Whole Shebang  2011 features a universal cast of critically acclaimed Canadian artists including dance/literature artist Sarah Chase, Americana singer-songwriter Doug Paisley, dancer/choreographer William Yong w/ Heather Berry, Kate Franklin, Nicholas Melymuk, dancer/choreographer Andrea Nann w/ Nilan Perera, Danielle Denichaud and Brendan Wyatt, indie filmmakers Aram Siu Wai Collier, Joyce Wong and Leslie Loksi Chan and theatre creators Judith Thompson and Lauren Brotman.

In addition, “The Village” will feature current young artists including six dancers from George S. Henry Academy (finalists in the Toronto District School Board’s popular 2010 Dare to Dance program), University of Toronto Schools Music Ensemble conducted by Sarah Shugarman (accompanying excerpts from the independent film project ‘Suite Suite Chinatown’) and a diverse ensemble of youth and adults perform excerpts from ‘The Grace Project: SICK’ (by Judith Thompson and Lauren Brotman).

“A salon for the new millennium. A wonderful explosion of creative output and expression!“

- Andrew Cash, singer-songwriter

“The allure of The Whole Shebang is how collectively these thoughtful artists detail life in the 21st century in all it’s myriad paradoxes.”
- The Globe and Mail

“A sold-out success bringing dancers, poets, singer-songwriters and their disparate audiences together under one roof.”
- Toronto Star

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Image of Sarah Chase by Marc Hoflack

Dreamwalker Dance Company in association with The Toronto Dance Community Love-In presents
The Whole Shebang Community Festival Masterclasses with Dance/Literary Artist Sarah Chase for dancers and writers

Dates: March 7-10, 2011
Times: 10am-1pm
Location: Dovercourt House 805 Dovercourt Road 1st Floor
Fees: $100. Confirm your place with Natasha Frid, Education and Outreach Coordinator at dreamwalkerdanceoutreach@gmail.com

*Participants can also purchase tickets for $20 (regular prices $22-$38) to see Sarah Chase perform in Dreamwalker Dance Company’s The Whole Shebang 2011 – The Village at the Enwave Theatre March 11-12, 2011

Masterclass Description

Sarah Chase will be teaching a master class in different techniques of combining storytelling and movement.

The class will begin with an extensive warm-up, designed particularly to
enable to participants to tap into the unique co-ordination necessary to
successfully combine spoken word and movement.

The class will explore how two lines of concentration – the body and the
mind – can weave together in random patterns, creating chords of meaning.

The warm-up exercises focus on cross-patterning exercises that Sarah has created or adapted from other sources; the aim of these exercises is to get both sides of the brain bright and alert as the body moves and are very specifically focused on integrating the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

Other parts of the class will concentrate on biography and techniques Sarah has developed to stimulate memory and to find patterns and symbols embedded in biographical stories.

The course will give the participants new ways to view their own creative
work and will provide practical techniques on how words and movement can cross-pollinate to create unexpected and rich material.

Sarah Chase – Biography

Sarah Chase is an internationally renowned dancer/choreographer and teacher.

She has been teaching modern dance technique classes since 1991. She studied for a year with Irene Dowd in New York and has taught aspects of the Dowd work to students in Amsterdam and in Arnem at the School for New Dance Development. For several years she taught at the Teacher’s Collective in Toronto, and as a guest teacher at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre as well as for the company.

She has studied Skinner releasing technique since 1993 and in 1995 she received her teacher’s certification from Joan Skinner. Since then she has taught this work in Leuven, Belgium at Klapstuk, in Salzburg for the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, for Ballet Met in Ohio and has taught many workshop intensives throughout Canada.

In the last ten years she has been teaching workshops in story
telling/movement and has developed an extensive pedagogy in relation to her unique performance style that she calls “dancestory”.

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photo by John Lauener - Brendan Wyatt & Andrea Nann

Young Centre for the Performing Arts presents

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