Jackson Triggs Estate Winery (2145 Niagara Stone Road, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON)

General Admission: $55

VIP admission: $150 – includes a 4 course Barrel Cellar Dinner, After Party and Special Gift

Celebrate 10 years of doors Open Niagara and launch of the Binational Heritage Peace Garden Trail!

Gibraltar Point Arts Centre, Studio 12 – 443 Lakeshore, Toronto Islands

Optional dinner to follow.

In this five-hour workshop, dancers will see, feel, and seek the dancing body outdoors. Develop a visual context for your body in space and Nature. Forgetting and memory, body abstraction, visual death and geometry will be discussed and physicalized. Experimental dance scores will be written and tested. The weather will alter the course of the day. In case of thundershowers, we will move to an indoor area.

Bring a change of clothes and a towel.

Workshop $80

Dinner $10

To register or to ask any questions, please write to motherdrift@hotmail.com.

The Space Wants You

To see ADR’s previous work, please visit:

http://vimeo.com/user8416001

http://www.wix.com/motherdrift/aimeedawnrobinson

Parkdale Prana: 1273-A Queen St. West, M6K 1L6 (two blocks West
of Dufferin)

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Arrive early as space is limited.

Cost: $10.

No dance training required.

For more information please contact:

<http://www.pranaroom.org > | info@pranaroom.org | 647-240-4104

When: Saturday, May 26, 2012 @ 2pm

Where: Centre of Gravity West, 213 Sterling Road, south entrance

Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto

Celebrate Iranian culture and heritage with a full day of live music and dance performances, hands-on activities for kids, storytelling, film screenings and much more!

Daily schedule:

* Main Stage Performances

11:00am to 3:00pm
Currelly Gallery, Level 1
Live music and dance including performances by: Music – Arya Saaber – Baarbad Ensemble – Zhouwan Ensemble / Puppet Show – Vida Ghahremani
Dance – Aftaab Dance Group – Beeta Jafari – Gisoo Dance – Ladan Lotfi – Mayn-zard Kurdish Group – Odlar Dance Group – Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre

12:50pm – Special Presentation: Traditional Persian Wedding
Discover the history and tradition of a Persian wedding with presenter Leila Moslemi. In this performance, a narrator tells the story of an Iranian’s girl’s traditional marriage, step by step, from the proposal to the celebrations that take place after the couple move to their new home. Listen to her story and experience the traditional customs and ceremonies through visual demonstrations and a traditional table setting.

* Kids Activities

10:30am to 4:00pm
Queens Park Rotunda, Level 1
Iranian themed hands-on crafts and activities for kids! Join us for face painting, storytelling and more. Special puppet show performance by Vida Ghahremani at 10:45am!

* Special Curator Lecture
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Theatre, Level B1
Join Dr. Ed Keall, ROM Department of World Cultures, for a thought provoking lecture, Persian War-Lord’s Fortress on the Silk Road.

* Theatre Performances
2:30pm to 5:00pm
Theatre, Level B1
Live music and dance including performances by:
Music – The Circle / Puppet Show – Vida Ghahremani / Presentation – Ms. Faghani / Dance – Ida Meftahi – Sashar Zarif Dance Theater – Gisoo Dance – Odlar Dance Group / Films – Afarin Mansouri – The Persian Piano

* Music and Dance Performances in the Galleries
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Currelly Gallery, Level 1
Level 1, Rotunda: 3:00pm to 4:00pm – Music performance by Mehrava Ensemble – Puppet show with Vida Ghahremani – Dance performance by Beeta Jafara with music by Ehsan Ghaffari, Tar
Level 3, European Rotunda: 3:00pm to 4:40pm – Music performance by The Circle – Solo Tar performance by Ehsan Ghaffari – Duet of violin and violoncello by Vira Burmenko and Mario Gonzalez – Solo Tar performance by Shahrokh Saeedi
Level 3, Wirth Gallery of the Middle East Entrance: 3:00pm to 4:50pm – Music performance by Daf Ensemble – Storytelling by Ariel Balevi – Music performance by Mehdi Rezania and Saleh Lavee

* Iranian Art Display
10 am to 4pm
Chen Court & Spirit House, Level 1
Special display of paintings by Iranian artists: Alijan Alijanpour, Abdollah Kiaier, Farzaneh Nazerian, Mohammad Reza Sharifi, Shamsi Shahrokhi

* Iranian Artifact Display
10 am to 4pm
Chen Court, Level 1
Special display of Iranian artifacts. On display for one day only!

* Music & Dance Workshop for Kids
2 pm to 5pm
Classroom 1, Level 1
Learn more about Iranian dance and music!

* Music & Dance Workshop for Adults
2 pm to 3:30pm
Classroom 3, Level 1
Learn more about Iranian dance and music!

* Gallery Tours
2 pm and 3 pm – English
Wirth Gallery of the Middle East, Level 3
The rich history and culture of the Middle East will be brought to life!

* Shahnama – The Persian “Book of Kings”
Wirth Gallery of the Middle East, Level 3
Completed about 1010 in Northeastern Iran, this great epic poem tells the story of Iran’s kings and their faithful paladins from the beginning of times up to the Arab conquest in 644.
More information http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/shahnama.php

* Dining
11:00am to 4:30pm
Food Studio, Level B1
Tempt your taste buds with a special selection of Iranian treats and enjoy delicious meals made from the freshest organic and seasonal ingredients at Food Studio, the ultimate family destination for healthy menu options in an earth-friendly environment.

* Shopping
10:00am to 6:30pm
ROM Museum Store, Level 1
Find unique gifts for that special someone or take home a memento of your ROM visit at ROM Museum Store.

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Cost: Included with Museum admission. http://www.rom.on.ca/visit/index.php

For more information visit: http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/rom_kids/weekends/index.php?ref=showinfo&program_id=7785

Or contact:

Tel.: 416-586-8000

E-mail: info@rom.on.ca

Tickets: $22.50 to $38;
Harbourfront Centre Box Office: 416-973-4000, www.harbourfrontcentre.com

Premieres by Sylvie Bouchard, Colin Connor and Deborah Lundmark Premieres by three acclaimed North American choreographers will highlight CCDT’s appearance in Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps 11/12 season at the Fleck Dance Theatre, May 25th and 26th at 8 p.m.

Internationally accomplished dance artist Colin Connor completes a trilogy of dances for CCDT with his duet The Breath of Rivers, following his ARENA (2009) and Against the Dark (2010). Connor says of his latest work; We can never fully explain the energy that happens between two people. It has its own mysterious life that can ebb and flow. Sometimes it can emerge like the way, out of a cold winter, the snow slowly melts, streams start to flow, and rivers rush, fill, and pour into oceans. A former dancer in the Jose LimÓn Dance Company, now a prolific international choreographer, Connor has won both the Sarasota Ballet’s International Choreography Competition and the Charleston Ballet Theatre’s Fountainhead Choreography Competition. His ARENA, a fierce study in urban social combat, reads like a premonition of The Hunger Games condensed to a ten minute cage fight of dance.

Sylvie Bouchard, CCDT’s 2011/12 Artist in Residence, premieres the delicate and multi-layered L’envol. She relates, There is excitement in being in a new place, but also a sense of missing the familiar. In our walk forward, our memories travel with us. L’envol is a celebration of life, a visit with memories, and also a remembrance of people who have traveled on this path, walking uncertainly towards the light, much too
soon. Bouchard’s first work for CCDT, Passade, dates back
to the mid-eighties during her outstanding performance career
with Toronto Dance Theatre. Since then, Bouchard has launched
several companies – CORPUS, Dusk Dances and most recently,
BoucharDanse toured the world, and impressively received
a Dora nomination for her solo, Cassiopeia.

CCDT’s Co-Founder and Artistic Director Deborah Lundmark tackles the challenge facing young 21st century women who find themselves expelled without a map from the doll-house certainties that confined earlier generations in her yet to be titled premiere. Lundmark will also remount her While We Were Walking (2009), a leisurely, old-world stroll in the town square inspired by Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins in B Minor. In 2011 the company celebrated its 30th anniversary and won the Toronto Arts Foundation’s prestigious Arts for Youth Award.

A sumptuous 1992 work by Carol Anderson, CCDT’s most prolific guest artist with ten commissions to her credit, completes the program. Exploring the complexities of political drama and perceptions of nationhood and identity, the creation of Sephardic Songs coincided with the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ 1492 voyage to America, the same year in which Jews were expelled from Spain. Anderson writes, On a trip to Spain, I saw a group of girls dancing in the old Jewish quarter of Seville. I was struck by the irony of the world celebrating Columbus’ voyage, while ignoring the tragedy of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. A founding member of Dancemakers and the author of dozens of articles and books on Canadian dance, Anderson currently teaches the next generation of dancers at her alma mater, York University.