Dusk Dances Earlscourt Park August 18, 2011

Hosted by Ryan Egan, with musical performance by Maderaz Latin Music, Dusk Dances Earlscourt Park features:

• First Nation’s dancer and choreographer Santee Smith, with Kaha:wi – a piece celebrating the feminine spirit and Iroquoian traditions

• Jenn Goodwin with Stink – an exhilarating and acrobatic work featuring dancers suspended from the branches of trees.

• Lua Shayenne and Roshanak Jaberi, with Bao – a traditional West African coming of age dance featuring dancers and drummers in a fusion of rhythmic movement and sound. Watch Video

• Choreographer Jon ‘Drops’ Reid will create a new b-boy/b-girl performance showcasing the talents of youth from the surrounding neighbourhood.

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.

"A National Phenomenon" - The Toronto Star

DUSK DANCES 2011
Festival Director Sylvie Bouchard
Co-presented by Art Starts
Earlscourt Park (St. Clair Ave West and Caledonia Road) - August 18-21
Performances nightly at 7:00 PM
Admission is PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN
For more information visit http://www.duskdances.ca
416.504.6429 x41

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Official Website: http://www.duskdances.ca