Young Centre for the Performing Arts
Tank House Theatre
May 5 at 8:00pm  admission FREE
reserve seats

A play devised by the Young Centre Emerging Artists.

Emerging Artists: Kevin Birung, Gadda Damballa, Tom Kerr, Mark Marczyk, Julia Morson, Joe Pagnan and Alex Samaras
Mentors: Waleed Abdulhamid, Dennis Lee, Ken MacKenzie, John Millard, Andrea Nann, Patricia O’Callaghan and Gregory Oh

Program Leaders: Roberto Campanella, Ken MacKenzie and Charles Officer

Workshop Led by Andrea Nann

What Moves You? Exploring Expressive Gesture and Collaborative Practices in Choreographic Creation My artistic practice is collaborative and process driven and involves diving deeply into my own life experiences while working with others to observe, listen, explore, discover, share, move, feel and create together I am inspired to ask myself the question, ‘What moves me?’ and to elevate this into a shared creative experience. Class begins with group warm up that leads directly into an intensive independent creative process to craft individual expressive gestural phrases. We will then move into partners or small groups to develop collaborative/cooperative creative relationships by sharing and expanding our personal expressive gesture phrases into collaborative movement compositions. During this workshop dancers will be guided through a series of choreographic strategies that accentuate connections and communication through breath, temporal and spatial relationships and peripheral awarenesses. Towards the end of the session each group will have the opportunity to share the work they create.

Please join us for a special presentation of this new work for Dasein Dance Theatre.

Peggy Baker Dance Projects Touring to NYC ~ The Harkness Dance Festival presents a mixed repertoire evening featuring Peggy Baker in her 2008 award-winning solo, Portal, Peggy’s trio coalesce, performed by Sean Ling, Sahara Morimoto and Andrea Nann to an electro-acoustic score by Debashis Sinha, and Doug Varone‘s entwined duet armour, danced by Baker and former longtime Varone company member, Larry Hahn.

February 24-26, 2012
NYC evenings 8:oopm sunday matinee 3:00pm click here for more information

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