A Talk & Demonstration of songs, legends, regalia and dance of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation, Vancouver Island, B.C.

with George Taylor, artistic director, and dancers Danny Cox and Dave Dawson

The Kwakwaka’wakw people come from a long tradition of creating art, dances an...

EVERYONE CAN BE A MODERN DANCER!
Open to all shapes, sizes and colours of people no matter what your skill level and age from 8 to 80. Wear comfortable clothing and good walking shoes.
SPECIAL HAT PRIZE: A $500 cash prize for your favourite charity goes to the person or group wearing...

Do you really know downtown Peterborough? What is lurking behind your favourite bar, restaurant or government building? Where does that back-alley go? And what’s going on in that dead-end alley? These questions and more will be answered on Friday September 30 and Saturday October 1 as part ...

THE PINE TREE LECTURE SERIES

One of Canada’s foremost playwrights, Tomson will play some music and talk on a number of subjects, including the place of native writers in today’s Canada.

With support from Indigenous Performance Initiatives, Native Studies (Trent Uni...

Us is American performance artist Tim Miller’s funny, sassy and pissed-off exploration of everything from Broadway musicals to exile in gay marriage-friendly Canada. The piece careens from memories of a ten year old’s plan to flee to Canada to escape the war in Viet Nam (Man of La Man...

Directed by Muriel Miguel
Written and Performed by Jani Lauzon, Monique Mojica, and Michelle St. John

The Turtle Gals are a performance ensemble made up of 3 veteran theatre artists: Jani Lauzon, Monique Mojica and Michelle St. John. First performed in 2002, The Scrubbing Pro...

A program of contemporary dance by James Kudelka, including the world premiere of a unique collaboration with countertenor Daniel Taylor.

“it is as it was” (world premiere)
Created by: James Kudelka
Performed by: Andrea Boardman, Bill Coleman, Andrew Giday, Laurence...

The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (and other true tales of loves lost and found) is a boffo multi-disciplinary performance piece developed by four Peterborough artists: designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer, and writer/choreographer Kate Story. They ban...

Sumida River
Denise Fujiwara (Toronto)

Sumida River is the haunting tale of a woman in search of her stolen child. Fujiwara’s delicately shaded performance of the Butoh work explores a mother’s deeply moving and compelling journey.

“A butoh dance of remarkabl...

A solo, by its very nature, amplifies the dancer and draws attention to the politics of the body. Its many layers (aesthetic, functional, animal among many others) are the starting points for Triptych Self. It is partnered by music which is wide ranging and which aims to site the dancin...

With a full range of performance styles from modern dance, hip-hop and ballroom, to dance theatre and performance art, the fourteenth annual Emergency festival brings to the stage nineteen brave new works of dance and performance by some of Peterborough’s finest talent, ranging from veteran...

An annual occurrence every October in Toronto, last year’s 2005 Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video comes to Peterborough April 21, 2006 at Cinema 379. Reel Dance On The Road is a selection of films from the 2005 Festival, with the addition of three Peterborough films specia...

“…Energetic, exciting and entirely original..”
~ Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun

By  Darrell Dennis
Directed by Yvette Nolan
Starring Brandon Oakes
Designed by Christine Plunkett
Music by Cathy Nosaty

Native Earth Performing Arts’ hit productio...

Peterborough New Dance
and choreographer
Denise Fujiwara 

A short (25 minute) dance inspired by the 12th century Sufi story of an ensemble of birds in search of enlightenment. It is neither a literal nor a narrative interpretation but rather, explores ideas from the sto...