Student showcase offers a wide variety of dance pieces, now on stage in Toronto
The School of Toronto Dance Theatre (STDT) presents IMPULSE 2019 at the Winchester Street Theatre, showcasing work from all three years of their professional training program. Celebrating fifty years of dance education, the modern/contemporary conservatory program produces some of Canada’s top performers.
Since it’s a student showcase we’re not offering a traditional review, but instead an overview of the piece. Giving you a flavour of what to expect.
The stage is riddled with cardboard boxes and slabs, over 1000 pounds of it. Boxes of all different sizes are stacked, at some points to the ceiling, into different towers and walls. Many small slabs of ripped cardboard pieces hang above the stage like a bleak baby mobile. However, the space is continually shifting as the performers move and manipulate the set through the strange spectacle.
Bangarra Dance Theatre brought traditional Australian Aboriginal dance to Toronto
Bangarra Dance Theatre, one of Australia’s top dance companies, make their Toronto premiere with Spirit, performing a collection of stories and dances in a celebration of the Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander’s traditions. With mesmerizing movement and captivating physicality, the large seventeen member company take to the Bluma Appel Theatre, co-presented by Canadian Stage and TO Live.
The 9th! is a sombre piece, rich with movement and emotion
ProArteDanza celebrates its fifteen anniversary with the Toronto Premiere of The 9th!, a take on Beethoven’s most beloved symphony. Presented at Harbourfront Centre’sFleck Dance Theatre, eight dancers take on this virtuosic contemporary modern choreography.
minorities is an incredible and thought-provoking work
Unapologetically bold and powerfully provocative minorities makes its Canadian debut at Canadian Stage’sBerkeley Street Theatre. Choreographer Yang Zhen questions the personal disconnect of social identity within the new generation of ethnic minorities in China through dance, theatre, and vocals.
Student showcase offers a wide variety of dance pieces, now on stage in Toronto
In Absentia is an imaginative work that sparks childlike wonder
Bangarra Dance Theatre brought traditional Australian Aboriginal dance to Toronto
