Don’t miss the free outdoor movie series at Yonge-Dundas Square, “Dancing in the Dark”, which kicks off June 28, 2011 with a screening every Tuesday night through to August 30. All movies start at sundown!
June 28 – Paris is Burning, Hairspray
July 5 – Beach Blanket Bingo
July 12 – Dirty Dancing
July 19 – Moulin Rouge!
July 26 [...]
The CIBC IIFA Bollywood Moves Dance Competition will award one lucky man and one lucky woman the opportunity to perform on stage at the upcoming 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards to be held in Toronto on June 25, 2011.
Earlier this year, CIBC invited Canadians to submit videos of themselves performing their best Bollywood moves [...]
Want to be in a Flash Mob? Bollywood Chick is organizing an upcoming flash mob for bollywood dance!. There will be an instructional video provided soon, so anyone who thinks they can master some bollywood moves can participate.
Bollywood Dance Flash Mob Schedule:
May 31, 2011 – 6:00pm – 9:00pm (location TBC) - Professional Rehearsal
June 9. 2011 [...]
The season premiere of Season 2 of CBC’s highly-rated “Battle of the Blades” will take place at 8pm on September 26, 2010 . Eight hockey players will be paired with eight figure skaters in this elimination-based reality skating competition.
Performance shows are one hour on Sundays from 8 to 9pm, and start October 3, while the [...]
The organizers of Youth Day plan to set a World Record to have the largest number of people gathered in one place to simultaneously dance the ” Twist” during Youth Day festivities at Yonge-Dundas Square on Sunday July 25, 2010.
About the Twist
The Twist was popularized and became a smash hit in 1960 when the song [...]
The Community Folk Art Council of Toronto is pleased to present its 4th Annual Multicultural Canada Day Celebration.
Please join us at Yonge-Dundas Square for our 4th annual Multicultural Canada Day Celebrations. Starting at 12 noon, with the singing of O Canada then followed by multicultural folk dance groups from Toronto and Quebec performing live ethnic [...]
Though many did not know it was International Dance Day last Thursday, the National Ballet School did much to promote this day meant to bring awareness about the importance of dance to the general public.
Below is a video of the 3-minute dance routine to Feist’s ‘Feel it All’ choreographed by Matjash Mrozewski that students of the [...]
April 29 was designated as day for celebrating dance and dance artists by UNESCO in 1982. This year, celebrated Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite says:
“You are dancers, all of you. Life moves you; life dances you … To dance is to heighten your experience of the present moment. Your body is your location – when you dance, you are [...]
The Toronto City Workers strike did not prevent the recent Salsa on St. Clair Festival, and proves to be no deterent to the launch of the 2009 Caribana Festival either. Thousands packed into Younge-Dundas square yesterday for the official launch of Toronto’s fourty-second annual Caribana Festival, one of North America’s biggest cultural street festivals.
Caribana celebrations have [...]
Thirty thousand Michael Jackson fans gathered in Toronto’s Dundas Square on Canada Day July 1, 2009 to spend a few hours dancing together in celebratory remembrance of one of the world’s most renowned performers.
Michael Jackson popularized many unique dance moves including the “moonwalk,” a dance technique that presents the illusion that the dancer is [...]
