On November 22, Natalli Reznik, a Toronto dancer and instructor who was a finalist in Season 1 of So You Think You Can Dance Canada, will join Janet Jackson on stage at the 2009 American Music Awards. Also dancing with Janet will be Nico Archambeault, So You Think You Can Dance Canada Season 1 winner. They will be in Janet Jackson’s musical medley that will open the show, airing live from Los Angeles.
The 2009 American Music Awards will air on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 at 8:00 ET live on ABC. The show will feature a star-studded lineup of music’s top artists and acts and winners who were recently determined by online voting will be announced.
So You Think You Can Dance Canada’s Top 10 finalists are heading coast-to-coast on an 18-city tour of Canada where they will be showcasing their incredible talents to audiences nationally.http://torontodance.com/news/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1375&message=1#edit_timestamp
In addition to hitting the major markets of Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, the SYTYCDC Tour will take the Top 10 dancers across the country, including first-time stops in Lethbridge, Windsor, Quebec City, Saint John and Halifax!
Fans nationwide will have the opportunity to cheer on their favourite finalists as they perform some of their most-loved dances at Canada’s most prestigious venues.
The SYTYCDC Tour 2009 will showcase the most sizzling routines and mesmerizing performances of the season. The national tour will hit Toronto at the Air Canada Centre on Thursday December 10, 2009. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.ca
The Battle of the Blades recently glided into top television ratings as CBC paired up former Olympic figure skaters with former NHL hockey players and pitted them against each other in a competition to raise money for charity. The participants’ highly competitive natures resulted in some incredible skating at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens and spectators scrambled for coveted tickets that were selling on the street for over $100. (CBC had originally priced the tickets at $5 to ensure anyone could afford them).
Marie-France Dubreuil and Stephane Richer — skating for the MA Foundation
Watch these final three couples skate last night’s group number here:
Which of these three couples will win the $100,000 cheque for their charity? Find out during part two of the big finale that will air on CBC on Monday November 16 at 8pm. On this show co-host Kurt Browning will also perform, and all eight pairs from the competition will hit the ice to perform a group number.
Toronto Fringe is catching up to Winnipeg, Edmonton and even Montreal in offering a communal space and added entertainment to create a festival as opposed to a series of showcases in unrelated theatres. This July, the uncensored performances by some of Toronto’s most talented performers will be centralized around the Bloor and Bathurst area due to a new partnership with Mirvish Enterprises and the Randolph Centre for the Arts.
The new Fringe Club in Mirvish Village will lead guests from Bloor Street through Honest Ed’s Alley (between the two Honest Ed’s buildings) to a large beer tent and patio equipped with multiple performance spaces and interactive art experiences. The Randolph Centre for the Arts, located across the street from the south end of the Fringe Club, will host performances from twenty six independent theatre companies over the course of the twelve day event, and house the Fringe’s main festival Box Office.
This major operational shift will bring central operations of the Fringe to an easily accessible point along the Bathurst line to connect Fringe South (Factory Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille at Bathurst & Queen) and Fringe North (Tarragon Theatre at Bathurst & Dupont). The arrangement also ensures that one company showcased in the venue during the Fringe will be a class of graduating Randolph Academy students.
George Randolph, President and Founder of the newly formed Randolph Centre for the Arts, which houses the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, Bathurst Street Theatre, and Annex Theatre, says “It is a positive step toward building a stronger, more vibrant and unified community in these challenging times for the arts.“
The annual Toronto Fringe Festival, running since 1989, is Toronto’s largest theatre festival that has been bringing artists together to perform for the community. The festival provides a chance for many of Canada’s most acclaimed theatre artists to showcase their work at its earliest stages, while also developing a strong connection between new audiences and theatrical performance. In 2009 it set new records with over 60000 ticketed attendees and was host to over 150 theatre companies from around the globe – most from right here in Toronto!
As a member of CAFF (Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals), the Toronto Fringe chooses applicants by lottery, allowing equal opportunity for all interested participants. To help independent artists, the festival provides a series of workshops that give artists and companies the tools they need to make their show a success.
Application Deadline for the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival is November 18, 2009
The Toronto Fringe Festival will run from June 30 – July 11, 2010. Lionel Felix, who is organizer of Toronto’s Annual Flamenco Festival, and who performed himself in Fringe 1999, says the “Fringe is a great place for dance companies to start and is a great opportunity for dancers to be exposed to the public.”
Dancers, are you interested in putting on a show? Winning applicants will be provided with
A venue equipped with basic lighting and sound, assigned based on technical needs.
Inclusion in the free Fringe program guide, website, and overall event publicity.
A series of free seminars (producing, stage management, publicity, technical/design, tech rehearsal how-to).
100% of their ticket revenue.
The deadline to apply to participate in the festival is fast arriving, so make sure to apply before November 18 – that’s this coming Wednesday!
Due to the astounding success of the show, on which winner Tara-Jean Popowich from Alberta took home $100,000 and a new 2010 Mazda 3 Sport, CTV has ordered a third season of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA.
Season Three gives dancers across Canada another chance to earn the title of “Canada’s Favorite Dancer.” In fact Tara-Jean herself was eliminated in the first Season round of auditions. However she returned to become the winner of Season 3, proving true that persistence pays off in the end. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” – you never know what may happen!
The third season audition tour will start in Toronto on Saturday, November 14 in the John Bassett Theatre at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, on 255 Front St. West. View Map
Registration starts at 8 a.m.
SYTYCD Canada Season Three Audition Rules and Regulations
Competitors must follow the following rules to be eligible to audition for So You Think You Can Dance Canada Season Three:
Competitors must be either a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
All competitors must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
Age 18-30: Competitors must be of the age of majority in the province/territory in which they reside and no older than 30 yearsof age as of November 14, 2009. The age of majority is as follows: 18 years of age in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan; and 19 years of age in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut and Yukon.
Bring ID: All competitors must provide two pieces of identification, including a government-issued photo ID (e.g. driver’s license or passport), at the audition.
Fill out Forms: All competitors must bring with them, along with the proper ID, the signed personal release, the completed preliminary questionnaire, and the music sheet. All will be available at the audition site and for download at dance.ctv.ca.
Bring CD: All competitors are asked to bring with them the completed music sheet indicating the music they will use in their audition, along with theCD containing the indicated music.
No re-mixes: All songs must be “original” songs that are commercially available. A song must not be a re-mix of a song, a song downloaded from the Internet, or a competitor-created mix.
No logos: Competitors will not be permitted to audition in any article of clothing with a visible designer, sports or other logo; artwork; name; photo; or other mark which may be subject to protection by copyright or trademark laws.
Competitors may bring a non-competing dance partner for purposes of the audition.
Other audition cities that have been confirmed are:
Montreal Auditions
Saturday, November 28
Registration begins at 8 a.m.
Palais des Congres, Viger Hall
201 Avenue Viger Ouest
Metro Station: Place D’Armes
Vancouver Auditions
Saturday, December 5
Registration begins at 8 a.m.
The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts
777 Homer Street
Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo is finishing up its time in Toronto, with their last performance scheduled for 5pm on Sunday November 8. Toronto will mark the last stop of the Canadian leg before the troupe continues on to the United States in San Francisco. If you were thinking of going to see this [...]
“If you can dream it, you can do it, ” says Everett Smith of Glen Morris, Ontario on the night that his partner, Tara-Jean Popowich, wins the title of “Canada’s Favorite Dancer” at the Finale of Season 2 of “So You Think You Can Dance Canada.
Tara-Jean Popowich, a Contemporary dancer from Lethbridge, Alberta, [...]
Toronto Star Reporter Debra Yeo and other members of the media were given a chance to experience what it’s like to be a dancer on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance Canada last night. Alongside renowned dancers from the show, they participated in a dance class by champion ballroom dancer and judge [...]
As announced during the Top 6 Performance episode on October 13, CTV has ordered a third heart-racing season of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA. Dancers from across the country who have been watching from their living rooms now have their chance to participate in this popular show that averages nearly 1.5 million viewers.
