Brian Webb

One of the most eagerly anticipated events in British Columbia's contemporary dance scene, the 35th anniversary of the Dancing on the Edge Festival will kick off on July 6th. Festival Producer, Donna Spencer, is delighted that Canada's oldest and longest running contemporary dance festival, will host live performances both indoor and outdoor for eagerly awaiting audiences.

Brian Webb Dance Company (BWDC) welcomes Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD) and composer and progressive metal musician, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, for Empty Space | Empty Time & Worlds Within, April 20 & 21 at the Triffo Theatre in Allard Hall, MacEwan University. 

Brian Webb Dance Company (BWDC) welcomes the second half of their season with a new work by Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY. SOURCE AMNESIA, a timely exploration of false memory and the fragility of truth, will be performed on January 20 & 21 at the Timms Centre for the Arts at 8 pm.

The second performance in their 44th season, Brian Webb Dance Company presents Radical System Art in MOI: Momentum of Isolation by Alberta-born choreographer, Shay Kuebler, December 16 & 17 at the Timms Centre for the Arts. 

The Firehall will kick off its 40th anniversary season with Khoj – A Contemporary Kathak Dance Extravaganza, by Edmonton’s Usha Gupta Dance Entourage, from Wednesday, September 21 to Saturday, September 24, 2022.

Club Passim has announced the lineup for the annual Campfire. Festival over Labor Day Weekend. With more than 70 artists performing over four days at the legendary Harvard Square listening room, Campfire. is a celebration of Boston's folk music scene and a way for the club to showcase emerging artists including Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira, Jillian Matundan, Kara McKee & Emmery Brakke.

The Dancing on the Edge Festival Returns for its 34 th Year Festival of Contemporary Dance takes centre stage July 7 to 16 at the Firehall Arts Centre.

Brian Webb Dance Company will present Ballet Edmonton's digital debut of Persistence of Memory, a new work by Wen Wei Wang, online May 3 - 8. It has been a challenging year, to say the least, but Ballet Edmonton is poised to finish their season with a stunning new digital work by Artistic Director, Wen Wei Wang. 

Ottawa and Montreal-based choreographer Crazy Smooth has been enthusiastically selected by an esteemed panel of jurors to receive Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's 2020 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award.

The 2019/2020 Ballet Edmonton season opener will present a stunning mixed program by Alberta-born choreographic wonder Shay Kuebler and, one of Canada's most acclaimed choreographers, Serge Bennathan. 

Ukrainian Shumka Dancers have announced that Les Sereda will be joining the artistic team as Senior Creative Director.

Here's hoping you had a splendid Thanksgiving holiday weekend and that you're settling in for another action-packed season of events and shows to make Christmas 2018 sparkle even more! Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap for your entertainment pleasure, thanks to the efforts of theater companies all over Middle Tennessee. Here's our calendar for November 26, 2018, to help you plot your course through the end of the year...

Throughout the past year, I've written quite often about Nashville's Chase Miller and his tremendous talents, remarkable stage presence and startling ability to successfully morph from one character to another completely unlike the first (or any to follow). Miller is rather insanely talented and any director worth her or his salt would be deliriously happy to have the serious triple threat in any show on their drawing board.

Theater's power to illuminate and to elucidate even while offering diverting entertainment has perhaps never been felt so strongly as in Nashville Repertory Theatre's engaging version of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind, a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, now onstage at TPAC's Andrew Johnson Theatre through April 25.

Olivier Award-winning Dance-theatre Hybrid Betroffenheit Comes To The Citadel For Three Performances Only

Wonderfully complex - and somehow unexpected and altogether authentic - performances from Sam Ashdown as Hamlet and Cheryl White as his mother Gertrude are enough reason to experience Nashville Shakespeare Festival's production of Hamlet (now onstage at Belmont University's Troutt Theatre through Sunday, followed by January 31-February 3 performances at Middle Tennessee State University's Tucker Theatre). But add to their stellar turns, an ensemble comprised of some of the best actors ever to set foot on a local stage, under the self-assured direction of the esteemed Denice Hicks (the company's artistic director), and it practically becomes a requirement for any theater lover within the sound of my voice.

Beamish presents the Vancouver premiere of his first evening of solos, each exploring facets of his persona, both public and private, to reconfigure and superimpose creative perspectives.

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) announces the details of its 2017-2018 season, celebrating 50 years of performance that have fundamentally changed the face of Canadian dance. Under the visionary direction of Christopher House, recently named to the Order of Canada, the season kicks off on September 21 with a program of works by TDT founders Patricia Beatty, David Earle and Peter Randazzo presented in partnership with Toronto Heritage Dance. The company then launches into international and national tours, including its first-ever visit to Colombia and a coast-to-coast tour of Western, Eastern and Northern Canada. In the early spring, TDT returns to the Fleck Dance Theatre with an exhilarating program of premieres created in response to Christopher House's masterwork Glass Houses (1983).

Tennessee Shakespeare Company, the Mid-South's professional, classical theatre, will perform William Shakespeare's elegant romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing from December 8-18, directed by founder and Producing Artistic Director Dan McCleary.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company, the Mid-South's professional, classical theatre, will perform William Shakespeare's elegant romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing from December 8-18, directed by founder and Producing Artistic Director Dan McCleary.