Pearl

Pearl

A formal Main Stage presentation of contemporary dance work by Elizabeth Chitty, Mary Jo Mullins and Peter Randazzo

Friday June 8th 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday June 9th 2012 8:00 pm
Sunday June 10th 2012 2:00 pm

Sullivan Mahoney Courthouse Theatre
101 King St. 2nd Floor St. Catharines
$22 Adults - $16 Students/Seniors/CADA - $5 eyeGO + HST
Centre for the Arts - Brock University Box Office 905-688-5550 ext 3257

OLD & YOUNG and RECKLESS TOGETHER

Moonhorse Dance Theatre is proud to present the 3rd Old & Young & Reckless Together honouring celebrated Canadian choreographers Peggy Baker, Anna Blewchamp & Danny Grossman. 

Tickets: $18 for CADA-ON Members

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The third edition of Old & Young & Reckless Together features Michael Caldwell interpreting Danny Grossman’s celebrated 1977 work, Curious Schools of Theatrical Dancing; young dance sensation Sahara Morimoto in an excerpt of Peggy Baker’s 1997 work, Sylvan Quartet; and six graduates of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre in Anna Blewchamps’ 1975 classic, The Arrival of All Time.

Danny Grossman’s signature solo was inspired by an 18th century Baroque dance treatise, Venetian ballet master Gregorio Lambranzi’s New and Curious School of Theatrical Dancing: The Classical Illustrated Treatise on Commedia Dell’Arte Performance. The dance’s central image is of a lone, disfigured soul encased in a circus ring, forced to perform for an unseen master. The figure may not have perfect form, but he has an invincible spirit. The hyper-physical solo is a dramatic and technical tour-de-force. 

Says Caldwell, one of Toronto’s busiest and best young dancers: I performed a short excerpt of Curious in May 2008, for the final performance of The Danny Grossman Company.  Soon after, it was suggested that I learn the entire piece for a future performance.  Since then, Curious has been in the back of my mind, waiting for the right moment to emerge from the depths.  Of all his works, this is the only solo entirely focused on disfigurement as an overarching theme.  The physical complexity and exactitude required to perform this work is immense, sometimes daunting.  I have the utmost respect for Danny and his work and I am so excited to have this opportunity to tackle the entire ten-minute choreography at Old & Young & Reckless Together.

Sylvan Quartet was created by Peggy Baker in 1997 to a score for cello, clarinet, and piano by Chan Ka Nin, and originally conceived as an interactive performance for a solo dancer with the musicians of Amici. The choreography is being remounted for the first time ever for another dancer, the superb Sahara Morimoto, and distilled for these performances simply as a solo dance. Images of the sylvan world – trees, birds, deer, fox – emerge and dissolve in a lament for the forests we appear so intent on destroying.

The Arrival of All Time, a masterwork of Canadian modern dance, was the result of a collaboration between choreographer Anna Blewchamp and the late composer, Ann Southam and was originally co-commissioned in 1975 by the Festival of Women and the Arts and Dancemakers.  It was recently remounted by The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and O & Y & R is proud to present these young dancers in their first professional engagement since finishing their training.

And…join master teacher Michelle Silagy for a FREE dance class from 7 – 7:45 on Saturday, May 19. Come join us for a bit of dancing together with your family and friends. Simple everyday tasks and the joy of holding someone's hand is the basis for partner dances made together instantly in the delightfully infectious beat of live music. Call and Response is the order of the day to get you up and moving in the gorgeous new Citadel Theatre -- an intimate space made to make you shine bright in the presence of your loved ones – and you could even end up performing with for the O & Y & R audience that evening!

"DAMURA | MUDRA" - presented by Raagini Dance and Harbourfront Centre

Contemporary | Indian Dance May 25-26, 2012, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre

Indian dance and contemporary movement join forces in an exciting new production, ‘Damaru|Mudra’, which premieres at Toronto’s Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre (231 Queens Quay West), May 25 and 26, 2012 at 8 pm.

A part of Harbourfront Centre’s 2011|12 Next Steps Dance Season, ‘Damaru|Mudra’ is a dance- music-theatre production exploring the theme of ‘Tandava|Lasya’ or the masculine vs. feminine in Indian culture. The masculine is embodied through rhythmic footwork, and the damaru, the cosmic drum of the Hindu God Shiva. The feminine is featured through lyrical movement and mudra, or the stylized hand gestures unique to Indian dance. This new production features Kathak/Indian dance and music, and contemporary dance.
 
Choreography|Performance: Bageshree Vaze & Andrea Nann
Music: Vineet Vyas & Bageshree Vaze (Damaru) and Phil Strong (Mudra)
Lighting Design: Roelof Peter Snippe
Dramaturgy|Costume Design: Peter Chin

‘Vaze is a brilliant and expressive dancer’ – The Globe and Mail

Tickets: $28 or $25 (Next Steps package), $18 (Seniors), and $15 (Students|CADA).
Tickets may be purchased through the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416- 973-4000.

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