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iPhoto caption: Tessa Virtue performs at Fall for Dance North. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
REVIEW: At Fall for Dance North’s festival opening, it all came back to Tessa Virtue
This year’s Fall for Dance North opening programme gave audiences a multi-course feast that’s delish all the way through. Well, almost.
iPhoto caption: 'C'est la vida!' production photo by Julie Cherki.
C’est la vida! uses mime, dance, and electro beats to remix classic rom-com tropes
“Having endless talks with David about love, and our respective relationships, while creating and touring this show has definitely helped me grow,” says dancer Liesbeth Kiebooms. “It’s given me a more subtle understanding of love.”
iPhoto caption: Kyle Brown in 'Bootycandy.' Photo by Roya DelSol.
REVIEW: Buddies and Obsidian’s Bootycandy is a biting carnival of laughter
Is sexual trauma something to laugh about? Are there limits to satire? Bootycandy pushes these questions to the edge.
iPhoto caption: Karen Robinson in 'Prophetess.' Photo by Jae Yang.
REVIEW: In Tarragon’s outstanding Prophetess, language is both mighty and inadequate
Margaret’s facility with text helps her maneuver through an institution like York University, where words hold significant power. But the brilliant middle-aged scholar finds herself surprisingly unequipped to process the true sense of more elemental forces: love, grief, spiders.