Peggy Baker News

The Toronto Alliance or the Performing Arts (TAPA) has announced the VIP presenters for the 36th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, to be held on Monday, June 22 at Harbourfront Centre on the WestJet Stage, a 1,300-seat outdoor concert venue covered by a transparent roof with open sides. TAPA also announced that voting is now open for the Audience Choice Award up to midnight June 17 at http://www.nowtoronto.com/doras .

The George Luscombe Award was inaugurated in 1999. Revolutionary theatre founder and artistic director George Luscombe founded Toronto Workshop Productions in 1959, marking the beginnings of Toronto's alternative theatre movement. He was Artistic Director for 27 years at TWP.

At a press conference held June 1 in the lobby of the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 236 nominations for 212 eligible productions for the 36th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto.

Today, April 29 is International Dance Day and to celebrate, Canadian dance icon Peggy Baker presents figures in motion - part lecture, part slide show - free for the public at the Betty Oliphant Theatre at 7:15pm. figures in motion is presented just prior to a performance of her first-ever full evening ensemble work, locus plot, which runs April 24-May 3 at the same location. In honour of International Dance Day, today's performance of locus plot will be pay-what-you-can at the door.

Legendary dance artist Peggy Baker deepens her artistry as an ensemble choreographer with this ambitious new show, her first full-length ensemble work in a rich and varied 40-year career previously dedicated to the creation and performance of solo works.  Check out a first look below!

Wednesday, April 29 is International Dance Day and to celebrate, Canadian dance icon Peggy Baker presents figures in motion - part lecture, part slide show - free for the public at the Betty Oliphant Theatre at 7:15pm. figures in motion is presented just prior to a performance of her first-ever full evening ensemble work, locus plot, which runs April 24-May 3 at the same location. In honour of International Dance Day, the April 29 performance of locus plot will be pay-what-you-can at the door.

Canada's dance elite collaborate with Art of Time Ensemble to present work by Peggy Baker, and the world premiere of choreography by James Kudelka TORONTO, ON – Art of Time Ensemble presents an evening of music and dance in Intermezzi, April 9 to 11 at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre (231 Queen's Quay W). Canadian choreographers Peggy Baker and James Kudelka, will each interpret a collection of Johannes Brahms' Intermezzi for solo piano with intriguingly different results. Supported by Art of Time Ensemble's artistic director Andrew Burashko on piano, the evening will be a blend of music and dance in the Ensemble's signature style.

The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini 13 performances: April 17, 19 (2 p.m.), 21, 26 (2 p.m.), 29, May 2 (4:30 p.m.), 7, 9, 13, 15 (Ensemble Studio Performance), 19, 21, 22, 2015 Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen St. W. (at University Avenue) Start time: 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted above

In celebration of its 15th anniversary season, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presents its second event of the season, Older & Reckless #34: ALL DUETS.

Festival Artistic Director Yvonne Ng, Co-Festival Directors, Janelle Rainville & Jeff Morris, alongside guest curators Tedd Robinson and Debashis Sinha, are pleased to announce the programming for the dance: made in canada / fait au canada (d:mic/fac) Festival, running August 13-16, 2015. Over two dozen artists will be seen at the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto in three different programs: Mainstage, What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) and Arts Encounters.

In celebration of its 15th anniversary season, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presents its second event of the season, Older & Reckless #34: ALL DUETS.

The Board of Directors of Dancemakers has announced Emi Forster and Benjamin Kamino as the company's inaugural team of Co-Curators to lead the company in the implementation of the ground-breaking Incubation Production House model (IPH).

The Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award (LMJH Award) was inaugurated in 2008 and recognizes the important work of theatre, dance and opera administrators. Recipients of the LMJH Award have at least 10 years of demonstrated commitment to the performing arts, in addition to having made an impact on the industry in Toronto. The award is named after Leonard McHardy and John Harvey, the celebrated owners of Toronto's Theatrebooks, which they co-founded in 1975, and which now stands as one of the longest surviving independent bookstores in the country.

Older & Reckless, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre's celebrated series curated by Artistic Director Claudia Moore, presents OLD & YOUNG AND RECKLESS TOGETHER featuring nine dance artists in four intergenerational works.David Earle, Troy Emery Twigg, Carol Anderson and Paul-Andre Fortier present their work from today, May 15-17 in Edition #32 ofOlder and Reckless.

Evolution Dance Theatre (EDT) presents the world premiere of Follow Your Heart, a multi-media extravaganza with over 45 artists on stage that will take audiences on a wondrous journey into the human spirit, transporting them to a magical and mysterious world. Conceived, written and directed by EDT founder and artistic director Armineh Keshishian, this captivating dance drama is now on stage through Sunday, May 11 at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre.

Evolution Dance Theatre (EDT) announces new casting for the world premiere of Follow Your Heart, a multi-media extravaganza with over 45 artists on stage that will take audiences on a wondrous journey into the human spirit, transporting them to a magical and mysterious world. Conceived, written and directed by EDT founder and artistic director Armineh Keshishian, this captivating dance drama runs today, May 8 through Sunday May 11 at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre.

Evolution Dance Theatre (EDT) announces new casting for the world premiere of Follow Your Heart, a multi-media extravaganza with over 45 artists on stage that will take audiences on a wondrous journey into the human spirit, transporting them to a magical and mysterious world. Conceived, written and directed by EDT founder and artistic director Armineh Keshishian, this captivating dance drama runs Thursday May 8 through Sunday May 11 at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre.

Evolution Dance Theatre (EDT) announces new casting for the world premiere of Follow Your Heart, a multi-media extravaganza with over 45 artists on stage that will take audiences on a wondrous journey into the human spirit, transporting them to a magical and mysterious world. Conceived, written and directed by EDT founder and artistic director Armineh Keshishian, this captivating dance drama runs Thursday May 8 through Sunday May 11 at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre.

Older & Reckless, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre's celebrated series curated by Artistic Director Claudia Moore, presents OLD & YOUNG AND RECKLESS TOGETHER featuring nine dance artists in four intergenerational works.David Earle, Troy Emery Twigg, Carol Anderson and Paul-Andre Fortier present their work from May 15-17 in Edition #32 ofOlder and Reckless.

The Theatre Centre today announced that Managing Director, Roxanne Duncan, has accepted a new role with Vancouver's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. For over three years Duncan has worked closely with Franco Boni, General & Artistic Director to execute the organization's largest and most ambitious project to date - the $6.2 million transformation of an iconic heritage building into a live arts hub and incubator, and a permanent home for the company.