Woezo Africa Music & Dance Theatre Inc. is a performing arts organization based in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 2006, Woezo Africa, meaning “welcome to the land of perfection,” highlights our organization's desire to bring the uniqueness of the African cultures to the public. With a multidisciplinary approach that blends African
Project 686km Artistic Exchange considers the distance between the creative centres of Calgary and Vancouver and offers a roadmap for creative exchange for emerging artists of colour who are living and creating in each centre. The residency offers artist driven discussions, creation, and work-in-progress showings. 2020 Vancouver and Calgary residency
Photo by Ken Greenhorn. Dancers: Laura Turnbull, Ilaria Zuzak. Free Flow Dance Theatre is pleased to have been able to collaborate with local Metis Filmmaker Marcel Petit and composer David Bordessa on a short film showcasing the talents of our 2020 company members and special guest poet Ryan Bradshaw. Due
It's not too late to see DJD in action! DJD performed in the Fall For Dance North Festival in their Signature Program, which premiered online on Saturday, October 3, 2020. You can still watch this amazing program which features six world premieres by a diverse range of Canadian choreographers, including
Springboard Performance is thrilled to present Pina Bausch’s stunning interpretation of The Rite of Spring (1975) as part of the Fluid All Fall programming. In spring 2020, Pina Bausch’s 1975 seminal work, The Rite of Spring, was due to tour the world. Performed by a specially assembled company of 38 dancers from
The Spine Folds, Far Away, reimagines the body as a multitudinous structure of strange matter and alien organisms: a vessel in constant transformation always on the brink of collapse. It attempts to situate the human experience in terms of its relation to dreams, sensation, and the cosmos, using space and
In a time of global political uprisings, we have had to learn to self-isolate and maintain physical distance from one another. Faced with a global pandemic, we have had to re-imagine the ways that we gather, protest and how we achieve critical mass. The Left Space is a new digital commission by
Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of OLDER & RECKLESS! About this Event OLDER & RECKLESS 20 Years of Age on Stage - an online event produced by Fagan Media Group DATE November 6th, 2020 5:30pm MST COST Pay What/If You Can $0 - Free $10 - Discounted Rate
This work explores the relationship between live performance and live-streamed performance – a multidisciplinary installation with three live performances, with each one building off the last. All shows are free and can be watched from the sidewalk in front of MZD (10816–95 ST | Edmonton, AB) or lived streamed below
Rosanna Terracciano experiments within and around the boundaries of flamenco, dance, contemporary performance and short film, driven by an urgency to expose the vulnerable and introverted aspects of flamenco dance. Her solo performance works and short films have been presented throughout Canada and Europe, and in 2019, she collaborated with
“Long’s Hill: I live(d) Here.” is a neighbourhood walking tour by Louise Moyes Docudance, told through those who live and have lived in the Long’s Hill area, in historic downtown St. John’s Newfoundland. In 2016, crisis struck. The Neighbourhood was divided as to what to do. Through dance, photographs, interviews
Join us from the comfort of your home and watch one of three solos developed from the company's most recent work, How to Say Goodbye! The creation of How to Say Goodbye began in the fall of 2019. Since the pandemic of COVID-19, the themes of absence, the passing of time,
Oderin is a new dance theatre creation based on a collection of poems by NL poet Agnes Walsh (Oderin, Pedlar Press 2018). These exquisite poems depict Walsh’s mother’s difficult life growing up in Placentia, Newfoundland, then her later decline living with dementia. A tender and raw account of a personal
November 27th | 7 PM Mountain Time November 28th | 2 PM Mountain Time Free or by Donation New site-specific, collaborative, devised work by MZD Artistic Director Gerry Morita, with a lens towards catastrophe and hope. This work will explore the elemental impacts of fire, wind, and ice and the
In honour and celebration of Co.ERASGA’s 20th anniversary season, acclaimed choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino creates Offering, a collection of solo works for six dancers during this very trying time of COVID-19 pandemic. Six of Vancouver’s outstanding diverse dancers perform Offering a thread of solo dances that aspires and honour the
MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND PERFORMANCE is a series of online performances inspired by Joshua Whitehead’s forthcoming book Making Love With the Land in which LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists explore creation in a post-pandemic world. This performance of Whitehead’s work features performances by Joshua Whitehead, Barry Bilinsky, Kevin Fraser with
Exploring the importance of African origins in popular dance genres, this dance theatre production is a not-to-be-missed highlight for the 2021 Black History Month celebration. UNGANISHA, a Swahili word for “connection,” invites all to share, learn and connect through the beauty and diversity of African arts and culture. On February
February 17 - 23, 2021 | Streaming available in Canada only Experience Crystal Pite’s daring new work in a Canadian Exclusive Digital Premiere! Springboard Performance is excited to offer to Canadian audiences the film premiere of Body and Soul, choreographed by the 2020 Order of Canada inductee Crystal Pite for the legendary Paris Opera
Exploring the importance of African origins in popular dance genres, this dance theatre production is a not-to-be-missed highlight for the 2021 Black History Month celebration. UNGANISHA, a Swahili word for “connection,” invites all to share, learn and connect through the beauty and diversity of African arts and culture. On February
Mile Zero Dance presents a work by Julianne Chapple entitled City of Glass - a solo exploration of text, movement, sound and objects. Drawing inspiration from the West Coast ‘wellness’ movement, this project investigates the isolation and dissociation of contemporary commodification of the body, using the climate-controlled skyscraper (colloquially known