Season: 2003-2004
Arzoo Dance Theatre: Rubies
Arzoo Dance Theatre
with Deepti Gupta’s new multidisciplinary dance work
Deepti Gupta , one of Canada’s foremost South-Asian dance artists, has chosen Peterborough as the place for the world premiere of her groundbr...
Bare Essentials ’03
Choreography by Allyson Booth, Stephanie Corrin, Barbara Dametto, Anna Gartshore, Kris Keating, Jessica Rowland, Anne Ryan, Victoria Slager
November 16, 2003 @ 2PM
Market Hall Theatre, 336 George St. N
choreographers and dancers show works – in-progress in this completely techless, all-live music, magical dance experience
...COBA: Collective of Black Artists
Choreography by Robin Hibbert, Eddison B. Lindsay, Julia Morris
November 28, 2003 @ 8PM
Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St. N
COBA (Collective of Black Artists) is Canada’s leading dance company blending traditional Afro-Caribbean dance and music with contemporary themes and dance styles. With a full company of 12 dancers and musicians on stage, their show serves as a vibrant window on black cultur...
8 to 8
Choreography by Stephanie Booth, Barbara Dametto, Emily Glasspool, Bill James, Kate Story
January 10, 2004 @ 8PM
Market Hall Theatre, 336 George St. N
At 8pm Friday night five choreographers are given a theme with which to work. Then they meet Saturday morning with a large group of dancers to choose a cast, after which they rehearse all day and present a finished work at 8pm Saturday night. Can five new dances really...
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy
Created by Martha Cockshutt, Susan Newman, Susan Spicer, Kate Story, Penelope Thomas
January 31, 2004 @ 8PM
Market Hall Theatre, 336 George St. N
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy
(and other true tales of loves lost and found).
A scene from the first (2003) workshop production of The Cure with (l-r): Penelope Thomas, Kate Story, Susan Newman. See them in action! (opens in a new window, 280K)
A second presentation of this mul...
Sarah Chase: Portraits
Choreography by Sarah Chase
Music by Bill Brennan
February 6 & 7, 2004 @ 8PM
Market Hall Theatre, 336 George St. N
movement & text – Sarah Chase
music – Bill Brennan
lighting design – Hans Meijer
set design – Tine Van Aershot
Toronto-based choreographer Sarah Chase tells intriguing tales with movement, music and the spoken word. Like storytellers working wi...
Moving Pictures: Reel Dance on the Road
The best of the 2003 Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video
Photo of Andrea Nann by Vanessa Harwood
Friday February 20
Gordon Best Theatre, 216 Hunter St. W.
REEL DANCE ON THE ROAD. The Moving Pictures Festival comes to Peterbo...
Number Eleven Theatre: Icaria
Created by Varrick Grimes, Alex McLean, Elizabeth Rucker, Jane Wells, Ker Wells
February 26, 27 & 28, 2004 @ 8PM
Market Hall Theatre, 336 George St. N
On January 15, 2004, Toronto’s Number Eleven Theatre began a tour of their two original performances, ICARIA and The Prague Visitor, through Northern and Southern Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec. A permanent ensemble dedicated to creating original performance from text, action, sto...
Teasing Gravity – Dances for the Young and Fearless Image
Presented by Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre
Choreography by Keith Lee, Deborah Lundmark, Charles Moulton, Holly Small, Gary Trentham
March 1 – 4, 2004 @ 10:30AM & 1:15PM
Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St. N
TEACHERS!
Canada’s Most Acclaimed
Dance-For-Young-Audiences is coming to Peterborough’s Showplace Performance Centre
MARCH 1-4, 2004
10:30AM AND 1:15PM DAILY
Tickets are normally $4 each but there is a subsidy for schools coming by bus:
IF YOU ARE ...
Charles Linehan Co.
“Linehan evokes a forceful emotional undertow with a rare economy of means.” The Guardian, 2003
Critically acclaimed and award winning UK-based choreographer Charles Linehan presents an innovative double bill comprising two recent works, Grand Junction and New Quarte...
Emergency #12
Works by Robyn Abbey, Jill Battson & D.A. Hoskins & A.M Allcott, Darinka Blagaj, Allyson Booth, Sheelah Brouwer, Jessica Moya Brown, Beverley Brown-Chislett, Darcy Conroy & Zoe Greenwood, susan dalton, Barbara Dametto, Curtis Driedger & Kate Story, Joe Erikson & Tina Staplin, Anna Gartshore, michael hermiston, Kris Keating, Charlotte Kennedy, Beth Lifeso, Susie Magyari, Meghan Leadbeater, Karolyn Newby, Rob Steinman & Old Men Dancing, Jessica Rowland, Anne Ryan, Maureen Shea, Nicolas Sternsdorff, SWAG, Brion Wagner
March 31 – April 3. 2004
Market Hall Theatre, 336 George St. N
Program A: Wed @ 8PM, Fri @ 9:30 PM
Program B: Wed @ 9:30PM, Thurs @ 8PM
Program C: Thurs @ 9:30 PM, Fri @ 8PM
Program D: Sat @ 4 & 8PM
Program E: Sat @ 5:30 & 9:30PM
Peterborough’s twelfth Emergency brings you twenty-eight brave new works of dance and performance. Programs A, B and C feature Emergency veterans (and some exciting newcomers); Programs D and E present the work of artists who have never before appeared in the festival, in a special one-day-...