Toronto Dance Shows and Exhibits

• DUSK DANCES 2010 - 4 Presentations in the Greater Toronto Area
  Dusk Dances, one of Toronto's most exuberant and popular cultural events, is back for its 16th season, with 4 weeks of exciting dance performances at Neilson Park, Withrow Park, Chalkfarm Park, and Earlscourt Park.
• inDANCE presents Toronto premiere of contemporary dance fusion - Mango Cherry Mix
  August 14 and 15 at 8PM, Winchester Street Theatre
  inDANCE presents the Toronto premiere of Mango Cherry Mix, a contemporary dance collaboration, choreographed and performed by Navtej Johar and Hiroshi Miyamoto. This critically acclaimed work will be presented at the Winchester Theatre August 14 and 15, 2010.

This summer, our GTA Initiative will take Dusk Dances to striking outdoor locations in Toronto's east, north, and west ends. With new works from local youth and emerging artists (including Last of a Dying Breed, Tamla Matthews, Natasha Eck, Fly Lady Di, and Lua Shayenne), as well as favourites from our past repertoire, the Dusk Dances GTA program promises to animate communities and urban parks throughout Toronto.

In August, Dusk Dances returns to Withrow Park for our annual downtown event, featuring innovative performances from Tribal Crackling Wind (Peter Chin), AKA Dance (Amy Hampton and Keiko Ninomiya), Julia Aplin, musical dance group Dora Alexander, and the award-winning hip hop crew I Rock With the ONE. Join us for the event that the Vancouver Sun calls "...As close as possible to a perfect evening!"

Dusk Dances is an outdoor dance festival that brings an array of high quality contemporary and traditional dance to public parks. As dusk descends, a theatrical host ushers the audience - which invariably includes children, dog walkers and local residents - to five eclectic dance pieces that unfold in different areas of the park. Audiences are invited on a pay-what-you-can basis to an innovative site-specific festival, which is not only an artistic event, but a social and cultural one as well.

Neilson Park (Finch and Neilson Road) - July 20-23
Withrow Park (South of Danforth between Logan and Carlaw) - August 3-8
Chalkfarm Park (Jane St. and Wilson Ave) - August 12-15
Earlscourt Park (St. Clair Ave West and Caledonia Road) - August 19-22

Performances nightly at 7:00 PM
Admission is PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN
For more information visit http://www.duskdances.ca
416.504.6429 x41

inDANCE

Mango Cherry Mix is an interracial duet between two Asian men, a Japanese and an Indian, who seek to explore their cultural selves, their differences and similarities, in the presence of a "familiar" other.

This unique piece fuses two artistic and cultural worlds, weaving together diverse contemporary and traditional dance forms. Through a combination of movements inspired by classical Asian dances (Nihon Buyo and Bharatanatyam), modern dance and physical theatre, two universes come together as the artists slowly discover their similarities and differences. Mango Cherry Mix springs from the desire of both artists to create a common space and a platform for communication in which the movement of one is the starting point of a choreographic dialogue with the other.

Born in Japan, Hiroshi Miyamoto studied at Main Dance (Vancouver) and Merce Cunningham Studio (Manhattan). In Toronto, he co-founded Green Tea, a Japanese dancers' collective for which he dances and choreographs. He is also a member of inDance and 3M Dances collective. Mr. Miyamoto has worked with several masters and choreographers of varying backgrounds (notably Serge Bennathan and Peter Chin). His practice is focused on the elimination of borders based on social identity (gender, nationality, age, etc.).

Of Indian origin, Navtej Johar learned the art of Bharatanatyam at Kalakshetra (Chennai), and with Leela Samson at Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra (New Delhi) before going to study at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He has collaborated with several choreographers of varying backgrounds, such as Justin McCarthy, Janet Lilly and the New York City Opera. Mr. Johar is also the recipient of several awards, including the Times of India Fellowship in 1995 and is the founder of Studio Abhyas Trust (New Delhi). Creative freedom and a merging of traditional and avant-garde elements are at the centre of his practice.

Mango Cherry Mix premiered in New Delhi in March 2009, followed by a short run at the MAI (Montreal, arts intercultural) in May 2009.

inDANCE presents Mango Cherry Mix
Concept, choreography and performed by Navtej Johar and Hiroshi Miyamoto
August 14 and 15 at 8PM
Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street, Toronto
Tickets: $20 (CADA/Students/Seniors - $18) | Reservations: indance@gmail.com or 416.301.7543
www.indance.ca