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Caribana 2009 Parade Route and Time
The 2009 Caribana Parade, the main event of the Caribana Festival, will start at Exhibition Place and proceed west along Lake Shore Boulevard from 10am to 6pm on Saturday August 1, 2009. See map below:
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Archive for July, 2009
For the first time in Canadian history, a student from a Canadian dance school has won a major award in the junior category at the Moscow International Ballet competition.
This June, 14 year old Alys Shee was honoured with Silver medal in junior category on the stage of Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow at the 11th Moscow International Ballet Competition.
Watch Alys [...]
Half-finished construction and mounds of garbage did not affect this year’s Salsa on St. Clair Festival, which was was as busy as ever. Dozens of musicians and vendors drew thousands of fans of Latin culture to St. Clair Avenue on July 11 and 12, 2009.
Below is a glimpse of the two-day long celebration that [...]
Kids Play & Youth Outlook celebrates the positive achievements of young artists for their third year in Toronto on Saturday July 25, 2009. Normally held at Nathan Phillips Square, the youth festival has been moved to Exhibition Place’s Centennial Square, near the Dufferin Gate, due to the continuing Civic Strike.
“We’re expecting 20,000 people and we [...]
Three-time Canadian Figure Skating Champion and 1988 Olympic Silver Medalist Elizabeth Manley has become the national spokesperson for the 2009 Winners Walk of Hope. Manley lost her mother to ovarian cancer last year.
Elizabeth Manley was the first Canadian female to successfully land a triple-double combination jump in competition, and has participated in two Olympic [...]
The 34th Toronto International Film Festival will be held Thursday, September 10 to Saturday, September 19, 2009. One of the Special Presentations with be the world premiere of “Mao’s Last Dancer”, a film that tells the true real-life story of Li Cunxin, a Chinese-trained ballet dancer who was taken from his childhood village to [...]
CTV’s Smash Hit Series SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA Gets a Kick Start on Fall With Season 2 Premiere, Tuesday, August 11
Watch the Promo Video Here!
Airing Tuesdays and Wednesdays on CTV, the series kicks off with the hard-hitting Toronto auditions, where hopefuls showed up for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA’s permanent judges, Jean Marc Genereux [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 in Argentine Tango, Ballroom, Festival, Performance, Salsa / Latin, Socials, Swing, Videos, Workshop
2Some Dance continues their successful partner (”twosome”) dancing weekends with more workshops, shows, and dancing at the Toronto Hilton Hotel Friday August 7 to Sunday August 10, 2009.
Instructors and performers include: BENJI SCHWIMMER (So You Think You Can Dance USA) and his partner KELLESE KEY, DMITRY CHAPLIN (Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance), ELENA GRINENKO ( Dancing With [...]
The Bayview School of Ballet is looking for an instructor for Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Creative Movement. They are looking for a candidate with at least 5 years of experience interested in teaching several classes per week.
The Bayview School of Ballet is located at 148 Willowdale Avenue (Yonge and Sheppard) and has two state-of-the-art studio spaces [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2009 in Performance
The Toronto Music Garden celebrates its 10th anniversary of outstanding free performances in a unique setting, and popular garden tours.
Summer Music in the Garden showcases an eclectic array of music and dance performances that complement the beauty and calm of the Toronto Music Garden, and the music of composer Johann Sebastian Bach that inspired it.
Summer Music [...]
