A BODY OF POSSIBILITIES: BODY PERCUSSION FESTIVAL COMES TO NEXTSTEPS
Getting ready to leave for Canada... only two days away!
This will be my first time there! So excited!
I was invited to come perform & do a workshop by Viv Moore, the Artistic Director of the production. She is a wonderful spirt & has really done a magnificent work putting this inaugural festival together!!
There are lots of details below, but do check out the Harbourfront Centre link
The first of its kind in Canada, the Body Percussion Festival features dance, voice and movement arts that create music and rhythm through the body. The inaugural edition presents two evening performances and a Sunday matinée at Harbourfront Centre, from March 28th to 30th, 2014, for people of all ages.
Curated by Toronto dancer and choreographer Viv Moore, the festival features renowned international artists such as English step and clog dancer Kerry Fletcher; traditional hambone artist SlapJazzDanny; body music duo Evie Ladin and Keith Terry; and the Québec-based gumboot and body percussion ensemble Bourask. Toronto- and Ontario-based artists will be presenting new creations, specially commissioned for the festival's mandate, or remounting classics from their repertoire in a fresh context.
Playful, surprising, exhilarating, this is a program where even finger-snapping is raised to a spectacular art form. For Viv Moore, Body Percussion Festival is a testament to “how many forms of dance can be enjoyed by all, and how many points of entry there are into dance…Our hope is that all audience members will return home thinking, ‘Wasn’t that extraordinary!’ but also, ‘I could do that!’ – that it’s just the body making sounds, that everybody has a body, and that it all might be possible.”
FRIDAY, MARCH 28th, 7:00 p.m. - CLICKIN'
Kerry Fletcher (U.K., Southern English step & English clog)
Evie Ladin and Keith Terry (U.S., body music)
Carmen Romero (flamenco)
Sharada/Rup (Sharada K. Eswar & Rup Sidhu; konnakol/beatboxing)
MafaDance Village & Beyond Sound EmpiJah (gumboots and stick dance)
SATURDAY, MARCH 29th, 7:00 p.m. - SHUFFLIN'
SlapJazzDanny (traditional hambone)
Allison Toffan (rhythm tap/sand dance) Chhandam Dance Company (kathak)
Green Barn Morris (Morris dance)
GREX (vocal hocket & extended technique)
SUNDAY, MARCH 30th, 3:00 p.m. - CLACKIN'
Bourask, compagnie de Danse (gumboot/gigue/body percussion)
Alejandro Céspedes (percusión corporal)
Esmeralda Enrique (flamenco)
Bageshree Vaze (kathak)
HacheyTheMouthPEACE (beatbox)
Tickets:
Adults $30.50
Seniors: $25
Students: $15 through Harbourfront's CultureBreak program; please enter CULTUREBREAK promo code.
Children under 12: $7.50/ticket for one child; $5/ticket for more than one child.
20% discount for arts workers.
Contact the box office at 416-973-4000 for children's and discount tickets.
Curated by Toronto dancer and choreographer Viv Moore, the festival features renowned international artists such as English step and clog dancer Kerry Fletcher; traditional hambone artist SlapJazzDanny; body music duo Evie Ladin and Keith Terry; and the Québec-based gumboot and body percussion ensemble Bourask. Toronto- and Ontario-based artists will be presenting new creations, specially commissioned for the festival's mandate, or remounting classics from their repertoire in a fresh context.
Playful, surprising, exhilarating, this is a program where even finger-snapping is raised to a spectacular art form. For Viv Moore, Body Percussion Festival is a testament to “how many forms of dance can be enjoyed by all, and how many points of entry there are into dance…Our hope is that all audience members will return home thinking, ‘Wasn’t that extraordinary!’ but also, ‘I could do that!’ – that it’s just the body making sounds, that everybody has a body, and that it all might be possible.”
FRIDAY, MARCH 28th, 7:00 p.m. - CLICKIN'
Kerry Fletcher (U.K., Southern English step & English clog)
Evie Ladin and Keith Terry (U.S., body music)
Carmen Romero (flamenco)
Sharada/Rup (Sharada K. Eswar & Rup Sidhu; konnakol/beatboxing)
MafaDance Village & Beyond Sound EmpiJah (gumboots and stick dance)
SATURDAY, MARCH 29th, 7:00 p.m. - SHUFFLIN'
SlapJazzDanny (traditional hambone)
Allison Toffan (rhythm tap/sand dance) Chhandam Dance Company (kathak)
Green Barn Morris (Morris dance)
GREX (vocal hocket & extended technique)
SUNDAY, MARCH 30th, 3:00 p.m. - CLACKIN'
Bourask, compagnie de Danse (gumboot/gigue/body percussion)
Alejandro Céspedes (percusión corporal)
Esmeralda Enrique (flamenco)
Bageshree Vaze (kathak)
HacheyTheMouthPEACE (beatbox)
Tickets:
Adults $30.50
Seniors: $25
Students: $15 through Harbourfront's CultureBreak program; please enter CULTUREBREAK promo code.
Children under 12: $7.50/ticket for one child; $5/ticket for more than one child.
20% discount for arts workers.
Contact the box office at 416-973-4000 for children's and discount tickets.
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