Dusk Dances

Sylvie Bouchard, Artistic Director
84 Ashburnham Road
Toronto, ON, M6H 2K5

Tel: 416 504 6429 ex 41
Fax: 416 538 5619
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.duskdances.ca

Dusk Dances brings contemporary and traditional dance to urban public parks in and outside Toronto. The festival takes place in the summer months and features an array of choreographic works presented at sunset. As dusk descends, a theatrical host leads the audience to five eclectic dance pieces that unfold in different areas of the park. Choreographers from various backgrounds are commissioned to create an original and innovative ten-minute dance piece, outside of the usual theatre setting.

Dusk Dances was first created by Sylvie Bouchard in 1993, for Trinity-Bellwoods park in Toronto. Since then, the festival has produced seasons in: Downtown Toronto, Haliburton, Kingston, Peterborough, Chatham, Guelph, Manitoulin Island, Deep-River, Jane/Finch, Ottawa, Québec city and Vancouver. Artists and Companies whom have been presented by the festival include: Yvonne Ng, Jenn Goodwin, Roberto Campanella, Michael Greyeyes, CORPUS, Roger Sinha, Nova Bhattacharya, Suzanne Miller, William Yong, Esmeralda Enrique, Peter Chin, COBA, Bill James and The Danny Grossman Company.

Our mandate is to give choreographers a unique opportunity to showcase their work in a non-traditional venue, in front of a large and mostly new audience.

To apply to Dusk Dances, please send a proposal for:
   a) the remount of a work to be adapted to a park setting
   b) the creation of a new dance piece

Please include as much details as possible in your proposal, ie. number of dancers, music, site, as well as a video of your work. Submission deadline is December 1st, but proposals are also taken at any time.

Visit www.duskdances.ca for more details on Dusk Dances.

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