TUDS - Toronto Urban Dance Symposium Sept 12 @ 3pm

Hosted by Apolonia Velasquez & Ofilio Sinbadinho
Dance workshops, career seminars, industry &^ community panel discussions, resources, best practices & raising standards for dancers.
489 Queens Street West, Toronto.
Register at www.gadfly.ca

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Culture Days! Sept 24-26

Celebrating Arts and culture from coast to coast - join the movement!
visit culturedays.ca

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Mark your calendars for Scotiabank's Nuit Blanche: Oct 2!

Crazyfish Collective will present After The Treachery of Images, a work for seven dancers inspired by Belgian surrealist artist, Rene Magritte's image "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" [_above]. The performers are Heather Berry, Michael Caldwell, Lynndsey Larre, Emma Kate Millar, Jade Sakamoto, Erika Leigh Stirton and Jessica Wilson.
Jesse Dell/JD Dance will re-mount Ava for herself and Jordana Deveau _{Image above left by Keven Konnyu}. The piece works with the history of the site, exploring an era of war and love lost.
Jade's Hip-Hop Performing Dance Company [_{image above right}] delves into the history of hip-hop with 18 dancers (breakers, lockers, poppers, hiphop and krumpers)ranging in age from 13-21 years old!
Hanna Kiel's solo centres on the life journey we all must take and Typecast Dance Company _{Image above} presents a work for five dancers choreographed by artistic director Pamela Rasbach that explores dark vs light.

For one unforgettable sleepless night be transformed by dance artists @ Toronto's Distillery District!

CONGRATULATIONS TO HAMILTON SITE-SPECIFIC DANCE FESTIVAL

The Hamilton Site-Specific Dance Festival 2010 was an exciting dance event that included local and out of town performers in Hamilton's downtown core, taking in the AGH, Gore Park, James Street North, and other Hamilton areas. Sponsored by Dance Ontario and produced by Public Utility Performance and McMaster Centre for Dance Performance, the event utilized park spaces, galleries, sidewalks, loading docks, gardens, store windows, film projections and more.

Local community dance artists were Tanis MacArthur, Patrick Brennan, Rose Gowling, Ron Dejonkheere, Liz Bates, Grace Loney, Wendy Peng, The Blue Ladies & the Runaway Brides (Victoria Slager, Lauren Corindia), Heidi Ann Crocini, Defining Movement Dance (Josh Taylor, Josh Court), Beekaa Abraham, Emanuela Dussin, Tor Lukasik-Foss, Zubair, Belly Flow (Alecia May), Stylordz (Trx), Inner City Dance (Irina Aoucheva), Art's Equity Initiative (AEI) - Nea Reid, Olga Barrios, Freedom Studios (Christena Hampson-Covello), as well as Toronto professional companies, AX-S Dance (Kate Nankervis) and The Parahumans (Dave Wilson).
^{Images: Olga Barrios & Hamilton Parkour}

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Members' Updates

CDA Announces New Executive Director
The Canadian Dance Assembly announces Natalie Fave as its new Executive Director.Born in Paris, France, "as an artist and social advocate, she brings to the role a potent world view that is passionate, inclusive and forward thinking.Natalie's multifaceted experience and exemplary leadership skills will serve Canada's dance community in all its diversity" says Board President, Michael Trent

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Harbourfront's Tina Rasmussen Named as Juror
for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010
Harbourfront Centre is proud to announce the appointment of Director of Performing Arts, Tina Rasmussen, to participate as a juror in the Total Theatre Awards, in conjunction with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010 in Scotland. This prestigious invitation will bring Rasmussen together with a group of esteemed arts professionals to determine the best of approximately 300 shows in this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 6 through 30, in three categories: Emerging Artist/Company, Innovation and Physical/Visual Performance.
"As an organization committed to explorations of contemporary cultural expression we are proud of the connections our staff have made to companies and festivals around the globe," said William J.S. Boyle, Chief Executive Officer, Harbourfront Centre. "The Edinburgh Festival is an important annual presentation for innovative performance and several Canadian productions fostered and encouraged through Harbourfront Centre programmes have performed there to acclaim. We are proud that this year Tina has been invited to participate as a juror."

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Menaka Thakkar Finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation's William Kilbourn Award for the Celebration of Toronto's Cultural Life
Congratulations to Menaka Thakkar, esteemed Indo-Canadian dance artist who is the recipient of this year's William Kilbourn Award.

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Kaeja d'Dance
The Kaeja Emerging Artists Project (KEAP) formalizes Allen & Karen's belief and desire to support the next generation.

This August, KEAP has its first informal performance and a great series of open, noon-hour classes. Watch for them!
[Allen & Karen in Paris by Aniya Kaeja].

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Grand Opening of Jade's Hip Hop Academy
Jade Jager Clarke has a new studio in Brampton opening this month.

Location is 12 Bram Crt, Units 4 & 5

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CORPUS' Mall Tour
Corpus delighted communities in Chapleau, Sudbury and Waterloo when they took their Mall Tour to its final three stops. Unfortunately school performances at Chapleau were cancelled due to bush fires but the troupe still wowed crowds at the waterfront.

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photographymoves is a new company which will organize one week travel-photography trips to the heart of Europe.This summer Cylla von Tiedemann will start teaching in Berlin and in Mallorca, Spain.
For more info, please visit this website:
http://photographymoves.com/

New Members

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Dance Book Review