interview
Morro & Jasp: Go Bake Yourself
Join Morro and Jasp, sister clowns, for their family friendly cooking show, Go Bake Yourself. What to expect? Morro insists it’s going to be a competition but Jasp completely disagrees as she hopes to earn a man’s heart through cooking.
Jasp and Morro are the 2012 Dora Award Winner for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble and Lauren Gillett from Theatromania insists this show will be “a guaranteed recipe for fun”.
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World Stage artistic director Tina Rasmussen discusses Hotel Modern’s KAMP
Hotel Modern’s theatrical re-imagining of the horrifying events that unfolded in Auschwitz mixes theatre, music, video, sculpture and puppetry into a performance that features thousands of eight-centimetre-tall handmade figurines within an enormous scale model of the camp. A small camera is used to film and project the story onto a screen, which is like “watching a grainy newsreel, an animated …
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What is winter in Canada?
For the final HATCH presentation, multidisciplinary Winterreise Collective is exploring Franz Schubert’s celebrated song cycle through the personal lens of the diverse Canadian experience. Part concert, part play, part dance and part memoir, Winterreise Projekt weaves the classic and the contemporary, the public and the private, into a distinctly Canadian tapestry of winter.
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A world-class festival presenting dance inspired by Asian ideas and expressions
In association with Harbourfront Centre, CanAsian Dance is bringing the CanAsian International Dance Festival to our 2013 NextSteps season. A combination of performances, matinees, films and workshops that reflect dance traditions from across Asia.
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9 Loons: Constructing Our Future
Walk down almost any street in Toronto and you’re bound to run into a construction site. Toronto is actually the number one city in the world right now in terms of condo development. Eventual Ashes’ latest piece, 9 Loons, looks at the art of condo buying and the types of dreams people have about real estate ownership. 9 Loons asks: With all …
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Behind the scenes: A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football
Game day! After a pre-show camera call for A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football, we had an opportunity to sit down with four of the dancers from Norway’s Jo Strømgren Kompani. The dancers, who have been part of over 200 performances, discussed how they got involved with the piece, the extent of their actual football-playing abilities and more.
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Nova Dance talks Akshongay
A fabulous re-imagining of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s iconic bed-ins
HATCH, Harbourfront Centre’s annual performing arts residency programme, returns this month with four performances by rising, local artists. We launch the season with Reena Katz, who marks her first foray into a theatrical space with love takes the worry out of being close: public assemblies in bed with queers, a queer re-imagining of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s iconic bed-ins.
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World Stage artistic director Tina Rasmussen discusses She She Pop & Their Fathers: Testament
When Tina Rasmussen programmed this year’s Shakespearean triptych (Othello, c’est qui, LEAR and, now, She She Pop & Their Fathers: Testament), she wanted to avoid a distant, old-fashioned theatrical experience. Her goal was to bring productions to World Stage that made The Bard’s work immediate, playful and moving. Cue She She Pop. She She Pop & Their Fathers is an adaptation of King Lear, where …
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FRESH BLOOD 2013: ReActive Dance Theatre
It was almost a year ago when we graduated from Ryerson University’s dance program. As the security of a training institution began to fade away, we were dropped into the constant and ever-changing current of the Toronto dance community. We soon discovered that in order to find stable ground, we needed to figure out two things: what did we want from the dance community? And what did we want to contribute to the dance community?
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