Nann is one of 60 choreographers creating a one-minute performance to one of 60 compositions in a continuous 60-minute concert for 60×60 Dance event.
Co-ordinated by Viv Moore, and co-produced by Tova Kardonne in association
with founder Rob Voisey and Vox Novus.
November 20, 2010
The Music Gallery 197 John Street
(416) 204-1080 $15/$10 members
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Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s one act opera is brought to life by Young Centre Resident Artists Patricia O’Callaghan and Andrea Nann joined by pianists Peter Tiefenbach and Robert Kortgaard.
Global Cabaret Festival
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
55 Mill Street
Friday October 1, 2010 @ 10:45pm
Saturday October 2, 2010 @ 2pm
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October 2, 2010Peggy Baker – Toronto, Canada
Ben Grossman – Guelph, Canada
Performance Art, Contemporary Dance
Aleatoria is a constantly restructuring performance event where probability and serendipity intersect. For 12 hours, 12 dancers will perform an ever-changing series of duets created from solo works by acclaimed choreographer Peggy Baker, accompanied by random superimpositions of recordings for electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy by Ben Grossman.
The dance and music continuously re-sequence themselves to create a real-time composition throughout the night. Featuring some of Toronto’s most outstanding dancers including Kate Alton, Nova Bhattacharya, Sylvain Brochu, Sasha Ivanochko, Sean Ling, Sahara Morimoto, Sarah Fregeau, David Houle, Andrea Nann, Jessica Runge, Brodie Stevenson and Peggy Baker.
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Thursday August 26th at 9:30pm
Young Centre for the Performing Arts – Garland Cabaret
55 Mill Street
Visual media artist Elysha Poirier, cellist/vocalist/improvising composer Anne Bourne, and installation artists Helen Yung & Tom Kuo join Andrea Nann in exploring, creating and weaving together a playful and interactive sound, visual and spatial art experience. A GARLAND of playful delights so to speak.
COMPANY LOUNGE The Young Centre Company Lounge is a gathering place for Toronto’s arts community, so feel free to drop by every Thursday, kick back and have a drink. It’s informal and a great opportunity for audience members to participate in and witness the creative process.
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Waves Festival – Luminato 2010
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
June 18-20, 2010 various performance times
Guitarist/sonic explorer extraordinaire Nilan Perera and Andrea Nann premiere the first part of a trilogy of duets inspired by the Blues. Created with support from the Young Centre Resident Artist programme. http://www.youngcentre.ca/about_us/residentartists.html
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Re:Location (2010)
created and performed by Maiko Bae Yamamoto & Andrea Nann
Commissioned by the Powell Street Festival Society with the support of the Vancouver Japanese Language School.
Saturday July 31st 3-4pm
Sunday August 1st 5-6pm
Vancouver Japanese Language School
475 Alexander Street (starting on 3rd Floor)
As the performance commences the two artists and the audience are quietly drawn together then abruptly split apart and taken on separate journeys. In two groups the audience follows each of the women. Along the path audience members are led through a series of rooms and corridors and offered shared experiences from various vantage points or perspectives.
Re: Location is a convergence of personal stories, mythology, music, dance and imaginings from Yamamoto and Nann’s Vancouver childhoods. This site-specific work is created for the 2010 Powell Street Festival by Toronto-based contemporary dancer Nann and Vancouver-based theatre artist Yamamoto.
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July 31, 2010 6pm
Mainstage – Oppenheimer Park
400 Block Powell Street Vancouver
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photo by John Lauener
Beside Each Other
created & performed by Nann and Brendan Wyatt
music & poetry by Gord Downie
conceived by Andrea Nann
facilitated by Guy Cools
visual designs by Elysha Poirier
lighting and production design by David Duclos
stage management and performance by Valerie Stevens
July 4, 2010 8pm
St. John’s Newfoundland
Presented by Sound Symposium
LSPU Hall
July 10, 2010 8pm
Nanaimo, BC
presented by Crimson Coast Dance Society
The Port Theatre
July 11, 2010 8pm
Hornby Island, BC
Studio showing
New Horizons
July 16, 2010 7pm
July 17, 2010 9pm
Vancouver, BC
Excerpts presented by Dancing on the Edge Festival
Firehall Arts Centre
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Drawing on the success of our 2009 Festival, The Whole Shebang Community Festival 2010 will once again centre around the diverse and historic Cabbagetown district of downtown Toronto.
Our public high school touring performance will reach across the GTA to features a cast of diverse Toronto based artists including: dancers, musicians, visual artists, poets and singers in a 40 minute blockbuster mixed repertoire programme curated speci!cally for youth. Each student matinee programme performance is followed by a question & answer period with the artists.
Each student matinee programme performance will also be supported by a series of three creative morning workshops that will take place prior to the Company’s performance date. The workshop series will be offered to a selected group of 30 dance, music and creative writing students from your school. A trio of Shebang artists (dancer, musician, writer) will come to your school to work with these students to explore improvisation strategies that will generate materials for a collaborative performance piece. Students will learn to create ‘instant’ compositions within a structured framework using common themes and time markers that instigate creative expression and allow the different elements to interact. Guided by the Shebang artists, these students will perform their work during one part of our matinee programme.
The workshops are designed to expand learning and life experiences for students through the basic elements of dance and form and exercises that inspire imagination, exploration, discovery, composition, storytelling, dramatic intention, and execution. Learners will engage in carefully structured and responsibly monitored movement and dance exercises and improvisations. The students learn to focus individually and as a group to confront and communicate selected issues through temporal and spatial relationships, gestures and movements. Specic activities will depend upon the age and experience level of the learners. Older or more experienced learners will be challenged with more complex tasks and concepts.
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In celebration of Asian Heritage Month of May across Canada, Co.ERASGA Dance is pleased to announce the kick-off of its 10th Anniversary season with the remount and Canadian tour of acclaimed dance creation OrienTik/Portrait at the 14th Annual explorASIAN Festival in Metro Vancouver. Andrea Nann joins Co.ERASGA in the performance of OreinTik/Portrait.
Other confirmed performances include Montreal, Fredericton, Winnipeg and on May 25 at 7pm, OrienTik/Portrait will be performed in Toronto at York University and on May 28 at 7pm at Hart House East Common Room, University of Toronto. See Asian Heritage Month website for more details.
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Brigantine Room Harbourfront Centre
Presented by Nightwood Theatre, FemCab 2010 is a sassy cabaret celebrating International Women’s Day and the talents of local women artists featuring, among others,
dancer Andrea Nann, mezzo-soprano Jean Stilwell, pianist Patti Loachand comedian Sandra Battaglini in an evening of performance led by keynote speaker Maude Barlow, as well as hosts Ellen-Ray Hennessyand Lisa Karen Cox.
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Enwave Theatre
12 & 13 February 2010, 8:00 pm
Tickets: $19-49
Info: www.artoftimeensemble.com | www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Nann’s Shostakovich: Notes in Silence, set to Shostakovich’s monumental 2nd trio for piano, violin & cello with video by Peter Mettler, will performed as a part of the Art of Time Ensemble all-Shostakovich program, Shostakovich: A Portrait. Works in the program include two of Shostakovich’s greatest chamber works and his rarely performed jazz suite.
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John Lauener
Featuring music from the new album of The Flying Bulgars, Nann choreographs and performs with Eddie Kastrau (alongtime member of the Danny Grossman Dance Company) and 10 dancers from the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre. Also joining the musical adventures are Bruce McDonald (film), Lorenzo Savoini (design) and guests Alana Bridgewater, Richard Underhill and John Millard in a multimedia, multidisciplinary concert taking audiences through the darkness of our times to a new illumination.
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Bruce Zinger
Fleck Dance Theatre
24 January 2010
Dance Ontario’s Dance Weekend, a 3-day celebration of Ontario’s diverse community of dance artists, presents We’re Hardcore, Trick Rider and Into the Night from Nann’s latest choreography (2009) – created with dancer Brendan Wyatt and set to recorded music by Gord Downie.
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December 8, 2008
Toronto’s Young Centre for the Performing Arts has appointed Andrea Nann as one of 12 Resident Artists, who will act as visionaries, performers, facilitators and mentors to enliven the YCPA stages, provide mentorship to emerging artists and youth, create and lead professional development and outreach initiatives, and determine the Young Centre’s annual programming. www.youngcentre.ca
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Bruce Zinger
Uncollected Dances by Andrea Nann & Friends
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
11, 13-14 November 2009
“…an exquisite evening…This mesmerizing concert is rich visually, intellectually and emotionally. With her waist-long hair, supple body and fluid grace, Nann is poetry in motion”
- Classical 96.3 FM
“Wyatt smouldered in this performance”
- Paula Citron
Tumbling Dice, an eclectic and intimate evening of short dances, live music and spoken word. Collaborators Andrew Cash, George Gao, and Brendan Wyatt and special guests Joseph Boyden and Karen Solie joined Young Centre Resident Artist Andrea Nann in this engaging programme that included an alluring collection of Nann’s past choroegraphy including: One Sided Stories (1992) – parallel stories of unrequited love; Reveries (2001) – images of an indefatigable couple brought to life by a ruminative poet; Source (2005) – an eloquent dialogue between two skilled soloists; and, chance selections from Divination Duets (2009) – glances into various aspects of interpersonal relationship.
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Cabbagetown Festival
12 September 2009, 1:30 & 3:30 pm
509 Dance – 509 Parliament Street, Toronto
Featuring dancers from Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre
Video Artist Kate Hollett
Choreographer Andrea Nann
Composer John Gzowski
I Love You more… in a remount performance during Toronto’s popular Cabbagetown Festival is a dynamic collaboration between dancer/choreographer Andrea Nann, multi-media artist Kate Hollett and Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre (CCDT). Hollett’s multi-media I Love You projects have touched and inspired a diverse audience – including former US President Bill Clinton. Rooted in her I Love You series of paintings, the project has grown to include a video installation, short film, and an interactive website that encourages people all over the world to become a part of this exciting endeavor. For one day only, 16 dancers brought these three loaded words to life by speaking them with their bodies. The audience was invited to become fully engaged in this dynamic, interactive dance/video installation as the performers explore the boundaries between public and private, shared and secret, connected and disconnected.
On Hollett’s I Love You series:
“…creating a form of social sculpture.” – Dr. Koan Jeff Baysa
“…beautiful…more than you know.” – Bill Clinton
On Nann’s creations:
“..moments come to us as a gift, and, as we experience them, we know that they will never be repeated, and never be forgotten” – Keri Wehlander, Nanaimo News Bulletin
“…a once in a lifetime event that everyone should experience” – Bouny Te, The Peak
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10 September 2009, 7:00 pm
The Music Garden
475 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto
: agilo arts :
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DanceIntense Toronto 2009
31 July 2009, 7:00 pm
Sandra Faire Theatre, Accolade Building East, York University
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26 July 2009, 1:30 & 3:30 pm
Sundays at the Young – Young Centre for the Performing Arts
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13 June 2009
Andrea Nann, Brendan Wyatt and Yuichiro Inoue joined forces in a structured improvisation outside, on the dimly lit dock of a warehouse, during Toronto’s inaugural Init Festival:
“a remarkable dance performance… a noir ménage-a-trois”
- Brian Johnson (Maclean’s).
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Chris Randle
6-9 May 2009
ANDDC performed an excerpt of INK during the 2009 CanAsian Dance Festival with the original cast featuring dancers Andrea Nann, Alison Denham & Kate Holden.
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An Asian Heritage Month Event
May 2009
ANDDC launched its inaugural The Whole Shebang Community Youth Festival in May 2009, a multi-arts program including performances of I Love You more… and the Shebang High School Tour – a multi-arts presentation for youth Grades 9 to 12 in the Toronto District School Board.
The 2009 school tour featured performances by 12 diverse local artists, including bboy Libydo, bgirl/choreographer Miranda Abbott, percussionists Dave Clark and Blake Howard, illustrator Aubrey Reeves, singer/songwriter Ivy Mairi, poet/spoken word artist/vocalist Sheniz Janmohamed, video artist Elysha Poirier, singer/ songwriter Andrew Cash, dancer/choreographer Andrea Nann, performance artist/choreographer Peter Chin, and filmmaker Nick de Pencier.
The premiere of I Love You more… took place at 509 Dance – at the heart of Toronto’s vibrant Cabbagetown district – on 17 May 2009, drawing audiences into an intimate and interactive dance/video installation looking at the many shared and secret, connected and disconnected faces of love in 21st Century.
A presentation of ANDDC & Kate Hollett with Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre (CCDT), 509 Dance and ILoveYouEverywhere.com, the premiere of I Love You more… featured a multidisciplinary cast of artists including choreographer/dancer Andrea Nann, video artist Kate Hollett, composer/guitarist John Gzowski, experimental sound artist/ guitarist Nilan Perera, dancers Jordana Deveau, Brendan Wyatt & the CCDT Company, media artist/designer Jess Brouse, writers Norman Lup-Man Yeung, Marjorie Chan & Dean Vargas, and &the Six String Nation Guitar.
Choreography for the work was developed while Nann was artist in residence at CCDT. Hollet’s award-winning I Love You & I Love You Over & Over series served as the well of inspiration for the work, with the multidisciplinary cast of artists and dancers bringing an enticing interactive physical dimension to this original and alluring work.
The Whole Shebang Community Youth Festival was created in order to provide opportunities to present shorter programmes of work in populous venues such as community centres and high school auditoriums and includes mentoring workshops between artists and youth.
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April 30, 2009 6:30pm
Harbord Collegiate Institute
A music and dance performance, the culmination of work developed by 130 students from Montrose Public School through the OAC Artist in Education Programme.
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March 21, 2009 Kitchener City Hall
In association with The Registry Theatre and Waterloo Dance
Carousel is a free Public Interactive Musical Movement Event open for ALL. Featuring improvising musicians from Sir Wilfred Laurier University, community dancers and YOU! Composer Rick Hyslop, video artist Aubrey Reeves, director Andrea Nann
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