Season: 2016-2017
Constellation/Conversation
Performance: September 16, 2016 @ 8PM
Installation: September 17-30, 2016
Artspace, 378 Alymer St.
Tanya Lukin Linklater and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, along with Layli Long Solider, cheyanne turions, and Cris Derksen will present Constellation/Conversation, a new collaborative performance and installation work, September 16th-30th at Artspace.
Constellation/Conversation will begi...
Beats and Braids
O’KAADENIGAN WIINGASHK presents BEATS and BRAIDS
October 13-15, 2016
Various Local Venues
Under the full light of Biinaakwe Giizis (Falling Leaves Moon), the O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk Collective (OKW) invites audience(s) to gather and to celebrate music from near and far. Beats and Braids is a three day celebration, featuring performances by musicians and songwriters, bringing forth lo...
petites danses (WORLD PREMIERE)
Marie-Josée Chartier
October 29, 2016 @ 8PM
October 30, 2016 @ 2PM
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 140 Charlotte St.
petites danses is a collection of small dances with vast imagination.
Thirteen performers. Four musical compositions. Eight dances. Each a world of its own.
https://youtu.be/uUafU6kX-FM
Created by celebrated choreographer and connoisseur of contemporary music, Marie-Josée Ch...
Myrmidon
November 30 – December 3, 2016 @ 8PM
December 4, 2016 @ 2PM
The Theatre on King, 159 King St.
Myrmidon is the story of one woman’s magical, mystical, and m...
Music Creates Opportunity
BBOYIZM
February 11, 2017 @ 8PM
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre. 140 Charlotte St.
In Music Creates Opportunity, Crazy Smooth and his Bboyizm dance company continue to explore themes of personal expression through authentic street dance, and to push the art form at its edges. While Bboyizm’s first stage piece, IZM, challenged audiences’ expectations of both street...
damned be this transmigration
Kate Story
March 3, 2017 @ 12:30PM & 8PM
March 4, 2017 @ 8PM
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, 140 Charlotte St.
Public Energy is proud to present the full-length premiere of a play featuring music created by some of the city’s most talented theatre artists. Writer/actor Kate Story’s damned be this transmigration has already had a successful run in workshop form at the intimate Theatre On King. Now ready for its prime-time debut, the work will be seen with a new set – and dance numbers – created especially for the expansive Market Hall stage.
Based on beloved characters created by New Yorker Don Marquis, damned be this transmigration is a dancing, singing roller coaster ride of a play with text from Marquis’s famous newspaper column and music from the swinging twenties, alongside original compositions. We follow Marquis, played by...
Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum’s Rush
Charlie Petch
March 29 – April 1, 2017 @ 8PM
April 2, 2017 @ 2PM
The Theatre On King, 159 King St.
Charlie Petch is a spoken word artist, published writer and musical saw player whose career, which started in Peterborough, has taken off across North America. Here Petch presents a new version of this solo show set in 1931, with new Vaudeville-era music created by Petch. It’s the last night fo...