Engaging with Arts: February 2024
Happy new year from Nova Dance! With the new year comes new exciting performances and events to share with your friends (or valentine) :
Feb 3 – 16
Four Seasons
When a forest gamekeeper traps a fox and attempts to domesticate her, their encounter leads to a poignant reflection on the natural cycle of life and death, as well as our relationship with the planet. This inspiring opera invites audiences to reflect on the advancing toll of climate change and the importance of cultivating a harmonious interrelationship with the natural world. With our very own Nova Dancer, Kaela Willey!
Feb 8 - 10
Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Image by Maya Yoncali
Deciphers by Naishi Wang and Jean Abreu explores the complexities of communication through the lens of understanding and misunderstanding. Co-presented with Harbourfront Centre.
Feb 8 – 17
Winchester Street Theatre
Vibrant, colourful aesthetics and unique collective experiences shape TDT’s first mainstage production of the 2023/24 season, a double bill featuring FACE RIDER by Fran Chudnoff, in collaboration with Driftnote and Angela Cabrera, and Odd-Sensual by Andrew Tay, with performances from the TDT ensemble members.
Feb 14 - 17
The Citadel
Image by Jeremy Mimnagh
between me and you, choreographed and performed by Heidi Strauss, is a solo work that plays with the inconsistency of memory. It opens a conversation between the real and represented, personal and relational, past and present. Here movement unfolds as response. We witness each other. Momentary points of connection slip in and out of our consciousness so that, slowly, the space between us changes.
Feb 15 - 18
Aki Studio Theatre
Image by Native Earth Performing Arts
The Anishinaabe of Grassy Narrows are resilient. They are stitching their fractured landscapes back together from the impact of mercury poisoning. Using dance, movement, sound, and storytelling, the Dora-award winning Waawaate Fobister embodies Omaagomaan, a two-spirit being, and a manifestation of the earth and man-made poisons that have seeped into the earth’s crust. A fierce shape-shifter inspired by Anishinaabeg worldview and cosmologies, Omaagomaan forces us to reckon with the ways the maanaadizi (ugly) and the onishishin (beautiful) collide.