Upcoming Performances

John LauenerTumbling Into Light
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
31 January 2010, 3:00 & 7:30 pm
Tickets: $30 / $20
Info: www.smallworldmusic.com | www.youngcentre.ca

Featuring music from the new album of The Flying Bulgars, Nann choreographs and performs with Eddie Kastrau (a longtime 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.

Shostakovich: Notes in Silence
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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Recent Events


Bruce Zinger New Duets
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.

Bruce Zinger  

Tumbling Dice
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.

I Love You more...
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

Leika (premiere)
10 September 2009, 7:00 pm
The Music Garden
475 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto

   
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Featuring over 17 artists – including Andrea Nann, sound designer Tom Kuo, vocalist Anne Bourne, dancers Jordana Deveau, Lucy Rupert (with Pablo) & Shelly Hering (with Salil) and 11 dancers from Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre – the premiere of Leika took place on a beautiful late-summer’s evening in the stunning waterfront setting of Toronto’s Music Garden. Commissioned by Harbourfront Centre, special thanks go to Tamara Bernstein, Jeanne Holmes and the fabulous HC crew as well as thanks to all who attended and to all the artists and supporters who made this event a terrific success. As one audience member wrote: “There were moments, when the wind was blowing, when it seemed like the dancers, the dancers’ hair, and the grasses were all moving together...[all a] part of the magic of the piece”

Meditation #5: On Loss and Desire
26 July 2009, 1:30 & 3:30 pm
Sundays at the Young - Young Centre for the Performing Arts


Meditation #5: On Loss and Desire
DanceIntense Toronto 2009
31 July 2009, 7:00 pm
Sandra Faire Theatre, Accolade Building East, York University


Divination Duets: New Waves Festival
6-14 June 2009

Bruce Zinger

ANDDC presented the Divination Duets, 11 new duets choreographed and performed by Andrea Nann with dancer Brendan Wyatt and music and poetry by Gordon Downie. Created during Nann’s residency at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, the duets were presented during the inaugural New Waves Festival, a part of LuminaTO 2009.

Init Festival
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).

The Whole Shebang Community Youth Festival 2009
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.

Chris Randle

INK: CanAsian International Dance Festival
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.

All Things Are Connected
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.

Carousel: Kitchener
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