Toronto’s Wintercity Festival is less than a week away, so don’t hibernate and miss out on the excitement. In addition to the free weekend WOW! series at Nathan Phillips Square, there are dozens of well-priced ticketed events to help you beat the winter blahs! Includes live theatre, dance, music and a Venetian carnival. The WinterCity [...]
Part of Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps Series, Dance Ontario’s three-day dance event takes place this weekend January 22-24. Twenty seven professional companies and hundreds of dancers will be performing. Admission is by donation (minimum $10 per person).
Harbourfront Dance Weekend 2010 Schedule
Fridayt January 22
7:00 pm Ballet Creole
7:40 pm On The Move participants choreographed by Ines Markeljevic
8:00 [...]
Toronto is host to many annual dancing festivals in which dance promoters invite top dancers from around the world to showcase performances and conduct extensive dance workshops. These festivals include the Canada Salsa Congress and the Toronto International Flamenco Festival that take place in October, the Toronto Tango Festival that takes place in June, and [...]
“Toronto is proud home to thousands of Haitian-Canadians and this is one of the many communities that make up Toronto’s culturally rich mosaic. So when tragedies like this occur, it resonates across our city,” said Toronto Mayor David Miller in response to Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. The magnitude 7 earthquake was the strongest to [...]
The Filipino Ati-Atihan Festival is a world-renown celebration in Aklan (an island in the Philippines), similar to the Mardi Gras in Rio and New Orleans. Every third weekend of January, over a million people flock to the town of Kalibo and the surrounding towns in Aklan for tribal dance, music, accompanied by indigenous costumes and weapons, [...]
