Engaging with Arts: May
April showers bring more performances! Check out these upcoming events happening around the city this month:
May 10 – 13
The Citadel
Encounters, featuring works by Sashar Zarif and Tedd Robinson, is part of a solo & duet commissioning project – intimate encounters created by exceptional choreographers with whom Sylvie Bouchard wanted to journey artistically. Each piece is created in an environment that allows time for the artists to delve deep into their creative curiosities, and to explore new ideas and artistic landscapes. Encounters is the third production within this commissioning project.
Image: John Lauener
May 12 – 14
Meridian Arts Centre
Experience four eclectic & provocative new dance works inspired by Asian ideas and created by six talented Canadian artists! CanAsian Dance returns with its sixth iteration of KickStart, commissioning and challenging choreographers to develop a short work through an Asian idea, concept, or practice. This show features two of our very own Nova Dancers, Ashvini Sundaram and Yui Ugai. CanAsian Dance has generously offered the Nova Dance community a promo code to attend KickStart! Use the Promo Code below to unlock 20% off standard tickets when you buy two or more. Promo Code: COMMUNITY
May 12 – 14
The Theatre Centre
Aeris Körper presents Enemy Lines, a live performance that looks at how a climate of fear divided and led to the incarceration of Canadians. Held by curiosity, choreographer Mayumi Lashbrook looks back at the actions taken against Japanese Canadians during World War II. Suddenly deemed a threat after the Pearl Harbour attack in 1941, her family along with over 22,000 Canadians of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from the coastline of British Columbia - their lives forever altered.
Image: Aeris Körper
Les Femmes Fatales: Showbabes!
May 12
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Celebrating the long history of Black burlesque, Women and femmes of colour burlesque, Indigenous burlesque, queer, trans, non-binary burlesque. Burlesque has always been radical, boundary pushing and rebellious. It has always been about resisting from the margins, with glitter, lipstick, leather, lace, sequins, feather boas, attitude, determination, grit and grace.
May 31 – June 3
Yonge & Dundas Square
Celebrate the rich cultural heritage of South Asia with DESIFEST! Head to Yonge & Dundas Square on June 3rd for a musical extravaganza that has been bringing communities together since 2006.
June 2 - 3
Aki Studio Theatre
Live dancing meets projections of the body in this first full-length solo work by Tanveer Alam. Leher (meaning waves) explores the spine as the foundation of movement, and ideas of slowness. This new dance work is based in the Indian classical dance form of Kathak, and deals with how a body arrives to a state of quietude — in material and performance.