Series Season: 2021–2022

This class uses imagery, sensations, and various improvisation tasks, leading the participants to access their bodies’ fascinating articulation and imagination. The driving force behind the class is curiosity, wonder, active decision-making and listening, and the abandonment of judgment. There is no good, or bad, only the poetry of surprise and play concerning time, space, rhythm […]

Explore different styles, perspectives, and the meanings behind First Nations’ dances with Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo. Taking inspiration from cultural perspectives and practices, we will combine the past, present and future to create an understanding of this land through dance. Participants should have a minimum of 2 years dance/movement experience.  

Tapping into the RUBBERBAND Method to which she actively contributed, Plamondon offers exercises that strengthen dexterity and precision of movement on all axes, decision-making and the use of rhythmic variations. By learning the principles of the method, dancers will be ready to engage the floor with authority and finesse. An emphasis will also be placed […]

This masterclass will introduce the participants to the work and artistic world of Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar through learning materials from L-E-V repertoire. The class is intended for intermediate dancers and choreographers with 2+ years of dance and movement training.  Registration is first-come, first-served to a maximum of 24 participants. All participants will be required to sign […]

Pulsing with rhythmic energy, eight performers of Via Katlehong Dance have teamed up with contemporary choreographer Gregory Maqoma for Via Kanana, examining corruption in South Africa and those in power who make unfulfilled promises in the transition to democracy since the end of Apartheid. At once powerfully physical and deeply emotional, the production evokes a metaphorical new promised land that sadly […]

Nicole Coon’s modest lights cast a warm yellow glow that mimics something we all crave when summer ends, and fall begins: Sunlight. The colour draws us in with its radiance, yet can repel us with its harshness due to yellow’s high light reflectance, acting as its own light source bouncing off surfaces. It’s a double-edged […]

Only You is an exploration of everything that binds and separates us by one of Quebec’s most beloved choreographers. In a quest towards understanding, acceptance and honesty, its two protagonists gradually remove the invisible veils between each other to unmask the truth that lies underneath. Tackling issues of vulnerability, courage and fortitude, a central theme emerges: one’s true self is one’s own to […]

CURATOR: GAËTANE VERNAASSISANT CURATOR: JACQUELINE KOK, NANCY MCCAIN & BILL MORNEAU CURATORIAL FELLOW, 2021-2023 In her first major solo exhibition in North America, Miriam Cahn presents an expansive body of work across our gallery spaces. Encompassing oil paintings and works on paper in chalk, charcoal, pastel, and watercolour—from the diminutive to the monumental—as well as […]

CoMotion Festival, curated by Alex Bulmer, celebrates new ideas and expressions by Deaf and disabled artists in a multidisciplinary program including visual arts, music, performances, digital art, workshops and panel discussions.  “Disability is political.  Disability is community. Disability is identity. Disability is an experience of living in a world with a ‘one size fits one’ design.  An international […]

The exhibition includes an additional image on view above Harbourfront Centre Parking – Main Entrance at 235 Queens Quay West, East Side. From a rising generation of Indigenous artists in Canada, Meryl McMaster (b. 1988, Ottawa) uses photography to explore identity and its distinct cultural landscapes with extraordinary visual impact. In this body of recent […]

Alan Lucien Øyen and his company winter guests tell stories of the contemporary world. Drawing from real-life experiences, his innovative multi-disciplinary works of dance and theatre have gained critical acclaim and an international following.   His newest work Story, story, die. is no exception. With a cast of seven extraordinary dancers and using visceral choreography and text, this piece looks at the interdependency between lies and love and the […]

Torque is Harbourfront Centre’s recognized international contemporary dance series, inviting dance lovers to experience outstanding contemporary dance from international and Canadian artists.    Since its inception in 2018, Torque has presented an annual season of five to six performances from October to May, specially curated to highlight internationally diverse and Indigenous choreographers, including Hofesh Shechter Company, […]

Digidance is back for a third season in 22/23. This joint initiative of Canadian dance presenters aims to deliver exceptional, full-length Canadian and international dance content online to patrons across the country. Each video-on-demand piece is accompanied by a “enhancement” segment that consists of interviews with artists and provides context and depth for the audience’s appreciation, produced exclusively for Digidance viewers.   Created in July 2020 as a response […]

“…things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.” – Hanya Yanagihara | Little Life Moment. Silence. Dryness. Emptiness. Fear. Wholeness. Concealment. Longing. Water. Demon. Gap. Coldness. Eyes. Intension. Impulse. Hideout. Colour. Side. Stitches. Love. Point. […]

A visually stunning dance piece exploring the impacts of the Quebec Bridge disaster of 1907, which killed 33 Mohawk ironworkers from the community of Kahnawake. When the bridge collapsed while under construction, it caused a wave of after-effects that stretched out to the whole world. It is a universal story that touches on themes of disaster, […]