Piano/Quartet photo by John Lauener

Peggy Baker Dance Projects presents
the sound and feel of it

January 20-22 and 25-29, 2012
evenings 8:30pm sunday matinees 4:00pm
at the Betty Oliphant Theatre 404 Jarvis Street Toronto
click here to purchase tickets or call 1-800-222-6608

featuring

three works by choreographer Peggy Baker
performed by Benjamin Kamino (solo), Ric Brown, Sean Ling, Sahara Morimoto, Andrea Nann (quartet) and Peggy Baker (solo)
music by Christos Hatzis and John Cage
performed by Beverley Johnston (solo marimba) and John Kameel Farah (solo piano)

click here to see rehearsal clips and to hear Peggy speak about the creative process for Piano/Quartet

and

click here to view highlights of filmmaker Wim Wenders in conversation with Peggy Baker discussing PINA

photo by Paul Flude

Tumbling Into Light is multi-disciplinary performance that follows the narrative of a descent into darkness, and then a struggle to return back into light. It is a result of a collaboration between composer/musician/producer David Buchbinder, choreographer/dancer Andrea Nann, and composer/singer Dave Wall. Shows are at 8pm, Dec 1-4th 2011 at the Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

Buy tickets online or call the Box Office at 416-973-4000

Also featuring Eddie Kastrau, Eroca Nicols, Peter Lutek, Tania Gill, Roula Said, Max Senitt, Dan Fortin, Tess Girard, Derek Gray, Matthew Roberts, Chase Lo, Jamee Valin, Jaash Singh, Victoria Buston, Anjelica Scannura, Nicole Horsford

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

For Collaborative Movement Workshops with Dreamwalker Dance Company at your school, as well as SPECIAL STUDENT RATES to attend TWS
Performances or Open Rehearsals, please contact Dreamwalker Outreach Co-ordinator Natasha Frid at dreamwalkerdanceoutreach@gmail.com

Initiated in 2004 as a single performance event celebrating the diversity of our creative and cultural community and collaborative artistic relationships The Whole Shebang (TWS) has grown into a month long festival of multi-arts activities that bring together culturally and artistically diverse groups and individuals to interconnect and share in positive and inclusive environments through workshops, classes, public performances, artistic mentorships and more.  The pinnacle event of the festival is The Whole Shebang Mainstage Presentation a showcase of short performances by (but not limited to) a diverse gathering of senior, mid-career and emerging dance artists, theatre artists, musicians, filmmakers, poets, visual artists and digital media artists.  Our next Festival will take place during April/May 2012.

Designed for high school dance and drama students to assist and inspire students to refine their movement fluency and expression.  Dance artist Andrea Nann will lead students into creating and developing collaborative content- driven work.

A guest artist will also participates in the workshop: composers, spoken word artists, visual artists and digital media artists, to provide improvised content, responding to and supporting the students’ work as they move and create.

Please contact Dreamwalker Outreach Co-ordinator Natasha Frid ~ at dreamwalkerdanceoutreach@gmail.com

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)

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

View our Beside Each Other Sizzle Reel on YouTube

View excerpts from Au Dessus de la Ville

Presented at The Whole Shebang 2011 – The Village

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