Season: 2024-2025
Current Performances:
Murmuration: Le Patin Libre
Venue: The Peterborough Memorial Centre (151 Lansdowne St, Peterborough) Memorial Centre access guide available here
Date: April 8th @ 7:30 PM
Tickets: Available through the Memorial Centre Box Office
Pricing*: $10-$50 + Fees
Suggested Price: $30 + Fees
*Sliding scale pricing is offered to make our tickets accessible and affordable for everyone. All tickets are general admission.
Run time: Approximately 70 minutes. No intermission.
Show Sponsor: The Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available, purchase seats marked accessible (top row in sections C12, C6 and C4) through the Memorial Centre Box Office. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions or requests. Full venue access guide, including paths to accessible seats, available here
The maverick, internationally renowned dance company Le Patin Libre (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal) has assembled a company of 15 virtuoso skaters from 7 countries. Together they perform the stunningly original Murmuration, based on the aerial ballets of swarms of birds. Like a murmuration, the dancers mo...
Previous Performances:
Is This Tap?: Bill Coleman and Edwin van der Heide
It’s not a dance show
“We thought we found him, but we found ourselves.”
Presented by Showplace Performance Centre
Venue: Showplace Performance Centre (290 George Street North, Peterborough) Venue accessibility guide available here
Date: October 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Tickets: Available now through the Showplace box office
Pricing: $60 friends / $50 adults / $35 seniors and under 30 / $30 students and artists
Special Effects Notice: This show involves the use of (visually stunning) lasers that project into the audience, creating an immersive bath of light. There is also minimal strobing involved. These lighting effects are designed and monitored to not be harmful to the eye in any way. If you have accessibility questions around the use of lasers in this show please contact admin@publicenergy.ca
An immersive theatrical experience created by Canadian dance legend Bill Coleman and Dutch mutimedia artist Edwin van der Heide – and introducing the mysterious 3-Legged Man!
“I travelled the world in search of his lost past,” reflects Coleman on the extra-limbed subject of his n...
Out of Wounds: Sandra Lamouche
NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH ONLINE!
Venue: Online & Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space (1 Gzowski Way Peterborough) Nozhem venue guide available here
Date: Online Stream available through to November 20th
In Person Showing November 1st & 2nd, 2024 @ 7:00 PM
Tickets: Streaming tickets available now through Eventbrite
Pricing*: Pay what you can starting at $5
*Pay what you can pricing is offered to make our tickets accessible and affordable for everyone. All tickets are general admission.
Out of Wounds is a contemporary dance inspired by Sandra Lamouche’s (Nehiyaw Iskwew, Bigstone Cree Nation) research into wagimauskigan, the diamond willow fungus, which has numerous traditional uses among the Cree people and grows out of the wounds of trees. Sandra’s dance creations are infor...
Raven Mother: Dancers of Damelahamid
Venue: Market Hall Performing Arts Centre (140 Charlotte Street, Peterborough) Market Hall venue guide available here
Date: November 26th @ 7:30 PM
Tickets: Available now through the Market Hall Box Office
Pricing*: $5-$50 + Fees
Suggested Price: $25 + Fees
*Sliding scale pricing is offered to make our tickets accessible and affordable for everyone. All tickets are general admission.
Run time: Approximately 75 minutes. No intermission.
Raven Mother is the Dancers of Damelahamid’s (Gitxsan & Cree, Vancouver) newly choreographed dance work in honour of late Elder Margaret Harris (1931 – 2020). Raven Mother illustrates the vast impact Elder Harris had on the revitalization of Indigenous dance along the Northwest Co...
New Works: Heryka Miranda and Norma Araiza
Presented by Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space & Public Energy Performing Arts
Venue: Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space (1 Gzowski Way Peterborough) Nozhem venue guide available here
Date: February 28 & March 1, 2025 @ 7:00 PM
Tickets: Available now through Eventbrite
Pricing*: Pay what you can
*Pay what you can pricing is offered to make our tickets accessible and affordable for everyone. All tickets are general admission.
Run time: TBD, work currently in development
Content note: This work includes themes of death
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible venue. For more accessibility info please consult our Nozhem venue guide.
Presenting new work by Norma Araiza (Yoeme Nation & Mexican Basque) and Heryka Miranda (Guatemalan American).
“Norma Araiza and Heryka Miranda are old friends of Nozhem: strong female Indigenous performing artists who bring deep practices of connection to cultural roots, earth, a...
Blind Dates: Vivian Chong
A Theatre Passe Muraille Production
Blind friendly production, presented with auto-generated captions
Venue: Market Hall Performing Arts Centre (140 Charlotte Street, Peterborough) Market Hall venue guide available here
Date: March 20th, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
Tickets: Available through the Market Hall Box Office
Pricing*: $5-$50 + Fees
Suggested Price: $25 + Fees
*Sliding scale pricing is offered to make our tickets accessible and affordable for everyone. All tickets are general admission.
Run time: approximately 65 minutes, followed by a 15 minute Q&A
Award winning author, triathlete, dancer, and Dora Award nominated performer Vivian Chong shares her world of dating, delving into romances, crushes, rejections, and self growth, as she touches hearts with her tender words. Vivian‘s engaging storytelling is interwoven with her original composit...