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Season: 2005-2006

Potlatch Pride  in the photo.

Potlatch Pride

Co-production with Indigenous Performance Initiatives

September 22, 2005 @ 7PM

Nozhem: First Peoples’ Performance Space. (Peter Gzowski College, Trent University)

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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...

Dancin’ in the Street  in the photo.

Dancin’ in the Street

Co-production with Artsweek

Choreography by Bill James and Kate Story

September 24, 2005 @ 3PM

George St. N; between Simcoe and Hunter

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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...

Alleyway Waltz  in the photo.

Alleyway Waltz

September 30 & October 1, 2005 @ 7PM & 7:30PM (two tours nightly)

Beginning at Millenium Park, Charlotte St. entrance

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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 ...

Perilous Voyage, Fabulous Voyage  in the photo.

Perilous Voyage, Fabulous Voyage

Co-production with O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk Collective

November 1, 2005 @ 8PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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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  in the photo.

Us

Co-production with Artspace

November 11 & 12, 2005 @ 8PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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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...

The Scrubbing Project  in the photo.

The Scrubbing Project

Co-production with Native Earth Performing Arts, in collaboration with O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk Collective

November 19, 2005 @ 8PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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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...

Bare Essentials ’05  in the photo.

Bare Essentials ’05

Works by Beverley Brown-Chislett, Barbara Dametto, Carrie Hoskins, Ryan Kerr, Anne Ryan, Kate Story, Melinda Wall

November 27, 2005 @ 2PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough

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The Kudelka-Taylor Project  in the photo.

The Kudelka-Taylor Project

Coleman Lemieux and Company

January 15, 2006 @ 2PM

Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St. N

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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)  in the photo.

The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (and other true tales of loves lost and found)

Created by Martha Cockshutt, Susan Newman, Susan Spicer, and Kate Story.

February 2, 3, & 4 @ 8PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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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  in the photo.

Sumida River

Choreography by Denise Fujiwara

February 18, 2006 @ 8PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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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...

Natasha Bakht and Compagnie Flak  in the photo.

Natasha Bakht and Compagnie Flak

Natasha Bakht (Ottawa) and Compagnie Flak (Montreal)

Choreography by Natasha Bakht, Shobana Jeyasingh, José Navas. Film by Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer.

March 9, 2006 @ 8PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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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...

Emergency #14 Poster for Emergency #14 in the photo.

Emergency #14

March 23 – 26, 2006

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

Program E:  Thurs @ 8PM, Sat @ 7PM
Program M: Thurs @ 9PM, Sat @ 8PM
Program R: Fri @ 8PM, Sat @ 9PM
Program G: Fri @ 9PM, Sun @ 2PM
Program Y: Thurs – Sat after all 8 & 9PM shows

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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...

Moving Pictures 2005 – Reel Dance on the Road  in the photo.

Moving Pictures 2005 – Reel Dance on the Road

Films directed by: Lester Alfonso; Cordelia Beresford; Marlee Cargill; Magali Charrier; Denise Duric and Jessica Rowland; Jenn Goodwin; John Lauener; Justin Lovell; Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer; Michael Morritt and Kate Story; Alexandre Oktan; Rodrigo Pardo; Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez

April 21, 2006 @ 4PM

Cinema 379, 379 George St. N

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Program #1: INTERNATIONAL SHORTS @ 4PM & 9PM
Program #2: BLUSH +2 @ 7:30 PM

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...

Tales of an Urban Indian  in the photo.

Tales of an Urban Indian

Co-production with Native Earth Performing Arts, in collaboration with O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk Collective

May 5 & 6, 2006 @ 8PM

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 336 George St. N

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“…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...

Conference of the Birds  in the photo.

Conference of the Birds

Choreography by Denise Fujiwara

June 3, 2006 @ 2PM

Millenium Park, Charlotte St. entrance
Rain Location: Peterborough Square

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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...