Series Season: 2018-2019

Cut the Sky
Artists from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia come together in a meditation on Indigeneity andhumanity’s frailty in the face of our own actions. In a burnt landscape, climate change refugees revisit conflict with mining companies, the destruction of fauna and the relegation of the marginalized. Breath-taking and electric, this show will give you hope for […]
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Post No Bills
When times are tough, you have to either adapt or die. Systemic crisis has become chronic. We can no longer afford to mistake expansion for development. Post No Bills edges its way into the space where composure is irrevocably lost. We have to scrap the fiction of reality. It is at this point we meet the broken […]
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Animal Triste
Animal Triste is a study of the nature and posture of humanity – poor and perishable one day, free and triumphant the next. Though human beings know that life is finite, they deny their mortality. They conquer, dominate, oppress. And procreate. Visceral and highly charged, Animal Triste will ask you to investigate how our instincts actually drive our […]
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Serpentine
Co-presented with the Art Gallery of Ontario. Serpentine is an installation performance created by Daina Ashbee. The work vibrates the essence of Ashbee’s dark and feminine pieces and is intended as a short and intense summary of her previous three works, Unrelated (2014), When the ice melts, will we drink the water? (2016) and Pour (2016). The research explored the occupation of […]
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Battleground
Canadian contemporary dance icon Louise Lecavalier explores new territory with Battleground, a solo and duet inspired by two Italo Calvino characters. The stage is a fight ring where a thousand battles are waged, both ephemeral and extreme. In a mad, unclassifiable dance, the two characters allow glimpses into their ideals and disillusionments. Daring and intense, this […]
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Lot X
Co-presented with DanceWorks. This site-specific piece holds a magnifying glass to the very land we are standing on and the people we stand with. Explore and challenge questions of ownership, intimacy and sharing, while the performers move with you through physical and virtual spaces. Your perspective will shift as you choose where you want to […]
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