I am very excited to be a part of this production- combining so many musical traditions with personal significance to me.  I will be sharing the dancing with the incredible Pierre Chartrand, step dancer extraordinaire, and also the fiery dragon, St. George, Turkish Knights and even a Princess!  It's a mummer's play set to a tonal operatic score....a clever twist.  See you there!

The Mummers' Masque
A TMT Christmas- Directed by Derek Boyes

December 3-6, 2009       8:00 pm
location: Victoria College Chapel, Victoria College UofT

With Laura Whalen, Krisztina Szabo, John Kriter, Giles Tomkins, Pierre Chartrand, Hannah Naiman, a children’s choir and a great band: Joseph Macerollo (accordian), Ian Harper (flute and pennywhistle), Terry McKenna (guitar), Larry Beckwith (fiddle), Andrew Downing (bass) and Ed Reifel (percussion)!

A TMT Christmas: The Mummers' Masque, is a program full of merriment, disguise, music, and dance. TMT presents its fifth commission, Dean Burry's celebration of the Newfoundland mummer tradition of door-to-door entertainment and socializing over the Christmas season. The musicians (playing accordion, penny whistle, percussion, double bass, fiddle, and guitar), singers and dancers will move about the festively decorated performance space, filling it with laughter, song, dance, and myth. The work incorporates the legend of St. George, original music, and traditional carols.

TICKETS: $25 regular / $22 students/seniors
Reserve Now!
 
 
Come for a fabulous night of homemade music at Debbie Carrol's house concert featuring Ragged But Right, with an opening set by The Blackest Crow!   That's right, it's a family affair.  Come on out!

Nov 14th 8:00p.m.
Admission: $20
590 Millwood Rd., Toronto, ON
Reservations are strongly encouraged: debbie@debbiecarroll.com

 RAGGED BUT RIGHT -
Opening set by THE BLACKEST CROW ~ new young duo HANNAH NAIMAN & EMILY ADAM

Aurora's ARNIE NAIMAN & KATHY REID~NAIMAN  ~ As a duo their musical tastes cover a wide variety of styles. Their old time style repertoire includes songs from Uncle Dave Macon, Charlie Poole and The Delmore Brothers plus traditional Stringband songs and instrumentals. As well, in performance you will be treated to the occasional unique old Jazz song, traditional American, British, and Canadian
ballads. Original compositions including Arnie's fabulous clawhammer banjo
instrumentals are a regular part of their performances. They also play
guitar, Appalachian dulcimer and the banjo uke. Arnie and Kathy have
recorded their music on their CD "Down Harmony Road".

 
 

Saturday, October 24, 2009:  Echo Women's Choir Fundraiser Dance
Music by Anne Lederman and Tom Leighton and the Echo Women's Choir!
                   Holy Trinity Church (10 Trinity Square-beside the Eaton's Centre)
                   7-10pm
                  $10 (or 8 for underwaged); $25 for families
                 info.echo@gmail.com
 
 
Stand Up Dance presents Meagan O’Shea’s
dance like no one is watching:
Gettin' Through The Night,
part of Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche
October 3rd to 4th, 2009
Click here to see our route across Toronto!

Contemporary dance meets mobile clubbing. Surprise and spectacle erupt in unexpected locations as dance celebrates and illuminates pedestrian places.

Four teams of dancers perform in 30 minute sets in a 12 hour relay as they cross the city overnight. Performing to a soundtrack broadcast on portable radios, audience in proximity can listen in.

More than 30 dancers drawn from the city's independent professional community, York Dance Ensemble (Susan Cash, Artistic Director) - York University, with pre-professional and recreational youth dancers participate in Gettin' Through The Night.

Stand Up Dance always seeks to engage the audience in interesting ways.
"Off the wall, impossible to categorize, fun." Montreal Gazette.
"dance like no one is watching" breaks the fourth wall, putting dance in the streets and amid the public.

The FUNDRAISING Campaign is in full swing.

Stand Up Dance is appealing to all Facebook Friends to help us meet our goals in Gettin' Through The Night by contributing $5 or $10.
DONATE at www.standupdance.com/nuitblanche.html
and CLICK on the DONATE button.

Creator Meagan O’Shea began "dance like no one is watching" in the summer of 2007 as a way to practice performing without a show. Since its guerrilla roots "dance like no one is watching" has evolved into an ensemble project focusing on dancers improvising together to create enticing choreographies as they perform.

“One of the city’s most engaging artists” (Toronto Star), Meagan O'Shea caught the attention of the public and critics alike with her interdisciplinary performances featuring interactive installations "first kissed" and "something blue". By offering tangible interaction, these performances expanded audience experience and led to the initial conceptualization of "dance like no one is watching", an interactive street performance where active audience participation is required to listen in.

The professional dancers participating in the project are: Laura Bolander, Julie Grant, Amy Hampton, Savannah Hoag, Hannah Naiman, Mirae Rosner, Heather Saum.

Hope to see you there!
 
 
A busy summer continues!
If you're in the Ottawa area, come see the Once Removed in at the Folk Festival in the Third Annual Cross-Cultural Collaboration.  Phew, what a mouthful!
18 artists will be coming together to perform on the mainstage on Friday, August 21st, and Once Removed will be in on the mix!  We will also be roaming the festival grounds, dancing spontaneously throughout the day.  Come check it out!
Check out the festival's website for more info.
 
 
Hello dear reader!  Thanks for stopping by. 
I will be dancing in 2 very exciting upcoming performances:
1. After the Rain- By Teoma Naccarato (August 8th at 2pm)
2. Pace- By Heidi Strauss. (August 12th at 7pm)

The info is all below.  I hope to see you there!

“After the Rain”
a site-specific dance piece by:
Teoma Naccarato

with dancers/collaborators:
Hannah Naiman & Anna Mayberry

Work-in-progress Showing
Saturday August 8, 2009, 2:00pm 

Cedarvale Park
Off Heathdale Ave @ Humewood Ave
(at the bottom of the big hill, near the Phil White Arena)

(It’s free! The piece is only 10 minutes, so don’t be late!)

 

For more information, and to view dance videos by Teoma Naccarato, visit:
www.naccarato.org/dance


DIRECTIONS:
By foot/bike: From Bathurst & St. Clair, head North on Bathurst.  Turn Left at Heathdale Rd. Walk about 7mins until you reach the ravine on your right, and head down the hill.
Subway: St. Clair West Subway Station, Heathdale Exit, follow the 
path through the ravine and you’ll arrive at our stage… (10-15min walk)
Driving: From St. Clair & Bathurst, head west on St Clair Ave W toward Raglan Ave    
(0.8 km). Turn right at Rushton Rd (0.2 km).  Turn left at Humewood Gardens    
(0.1 km). (Turn left at Arlington Ave     (0.1 km).You can park here at the Phil White Arena (443 Arlington Ave), and walk across the field to the north-east patch of trees.

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adelheid
presents

pace

a celebration of unity

August 12th, 7pm
Dufferin Grove Park: central campfire pit, Toronto
Free Admission
Information: 416-504-6429 x23

Raising summer spirits, adelheid presents pace, an experience of
movement and community. Embraced as a post-strike celebration of
public green space, pace brings together over 30 contemporary
dancers of different experience from Toronto’s westend,
welcoming newcomers and passers-by to follow along in their slow
continuous unison stream of movement. Accompanying this
installation by dance artist Heidi Strauss, is an original sound
score composed by John Mark Sherlock, mixed live by media artist
Jeremy Mimnagh. Together Strauss and Mimnagh form adelheid, a
creative partnership of dance, video and sound. This project
echoes the continuation of community engagement through dance,
which stirred up in April around the International Dance Day
festival celebrations – supported by the Department of
Canadian Heritage.