‘curtain Up’ Offering 9 Works This Year
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on November 18, 2008
There are nine works in the Curtain Up 2008 dance celebration, all by local independent choreographers, some making their debuts at Curtain Up, some returning.
This is the event’s 19th year, and “in retrospect,” says Arts and Culture Authority dance department head Nili Cohen, “the aim of Curtain Up has been achieved that of promoting original [...]
Raising the curtain on local talent
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on June 4, 2008
Art enhances the lives of not only the individuals who create it but also of those who view it, listen to it and perhaps in some cases even taste it. It has a calming quality and if last week’s talent show at George Elliot Secondary is any indication of the abilities of Lake Country’s next [...]
Spirit of Uganda
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it’s good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
Spirit of Uganda, Joyce Theater, New York
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
Making a memorial for life
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 21, 2008
In the aftermath of the Second World War, with cenotaphs springing up the length and breadth of the country, Lytham St Annes looked to another means of commemorating its war dead by providing homes for disabled ex-servicemen
As war memorials go, theres a certain poignancy to commemorating the sacrifice of fallen heroes by providing a [...]
(Falun) Gong New Year event mere propaganda
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 20, 2008
Chinese New Year Spectacular (out of four)Choreography by Divine Performing Arts. Today at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Sony Centre, a Front St. E. 416-872-2262.
It’s not every day that a show comes to town on the wings of claims that watching it might bring tangible health benefits. But that’s what was heard at [...]
WhatsOn Ida Nevasayneva’s life as a cross-dressing ballerina
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
It has been nearly six years since Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo last graced a stage in Toronto. But this is a favourite city for the company, as the site of their first performance outside New York City, where the butchiest ballerinas in pointe shoes formed their company in 1974. Combining parody and technical [...]