Form CDT is proud to share its third edition of an exciting new series of events dedicated to cultivating creative dialogue and connections for local dance and art enthusiasts.  PROSPECTS: an evening of dance and discussion is an informal evening for choreographers and audience members to connect and discuss the inspiration and evolution of works related to a chosen theme.

Choreographers with diverse dance practices and cultural backgrounds have been invited to present new and in-progress works surrounding the event's theme, “IDENTITY: How do we define ourselves? How does  our cultural background define us?”. Each piece will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, and there will also be an opportunity to submit written feedback. PROSPECTS is an exciting and rare opportunity for local enthusiasts of art and dance to engage with choreographers from the local, regional and international dance community.

Featured guest choreographers include Angela Deiseach, Peter Kelly, Jillian Pever and Sasha Speed

Advanced online Early Bird Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite:

General Admission - $20.00

Or at the door (cash only - price increase). Box office opens at 6:15pm. Cash Bar.

PROSPECTS opens a space for choreographers to present short works, excerpts, or works in progress around a specific theme, and invites the audience to give their feedback while enjoying multiple glasses of wine! 

The theme for the July PROSPECTS is SOCIAL JUSTICE: What are the ways in which human rights are manifested in the everyday lives at every level of society?

Work by Form CDT artist Lisa Ann Emmons and Mayumi Lashbrook. 
Featuring guest choreographers Nicola Adilman, Nyda Kwasowsky and Jamee Valin.

Come enjoy an evening of discussion, art & dance!

Lisa Emmons shares three new solo works:

Benediction for Everyday Losses
A letter from Martha Graham to Amy Winehouse two days too late
Golden Slumbers
Tickets are available at the door. The event is pay-what-you-can with a suggested ticket price of $20.00. 

We will dance, we will sing, look at some art and sip some tea. Hope you can come!

OPTICKS (John Smith, Andrew O’Connor, Lee Skinner, Troy Witherow, Aaron Campbell) and Form Contemporary Dance Theatre (Lisa Emmons and Josh Taylor) collaborate on an immersive dance and video installation.  Encounter space and time through a world composed of radiant physicality, ambient audioscapes, and experimental projections.

Form CDT is proud to produce PROSPECTS: an evening of drinks, dance and discussion at the Burlington Student Theatre. PROSPECTS opens a space for choreographers to present short works, excerpts, or works in progress around a specific theme, and invites the audience to give their feedback while enjoying multiple glasses of wine! 

The theme for the April PROSPECTS is RELATIONSHIP AND CONNECTION: How do we relate to what is around us?

Work by Form CDT Artistic Directors Mayumi Lashbrook and Mateo Galindo Torres. With special performance by transFORM contemporary dance students.

Featuring guest choreographers Mikaela Demers, Sofi Gudino and Sarah Koekoek!

Form Contemporary Dance Theatre AD, Mateo Galindo Torres, is having an open rehearsal of a new work in the cooking. Come and take a peak of his creative process!

Featuring dancer Caryn Chappel, live painter Carlos Delgado and outside eye Amanda Pye.

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RE(Variations) is selection of three different works exploring exquisite beauty, brute strength and thrilling darkness.   l:Variations, (Parentheses) and Revel  combine extremes in emotional content and vulnerability paired with dynamic physicality. All three works will be seen for the first time in Toronto.  

 “Form Contemporary Dance Theatre ignites a radiant rebellion on stage”  Veronica Appia, Editor-in-chief, The Theatre Reader.

Please follow this link to the DanceWorks CoWorks Series. 

RE(Variations) is selection of three different works exploring exquisite beauty, brute strength and thrilling darkness.   l:Variations, (Parentheses) and Revel  combine extremes in emotional content and vulnerability paired with dynamic physicality. All three works will be seen for the first time in Toronto.  

 “Form Contemporary Dance Theatre ignites a radiant rebellion on stage”  Veronica Appia, Editor-in-chief, The Theatre Reader.

Please follow this link to the DanceWorks CoWorks Series. 

RE(Variations) is selection of three different works exploring exquisite beauty, brute strength and thrilling darkness.   l:Variations, (Parentheses) and Revel  combine extremes in emotional content and vulnerability paired with dynamic physicality. All three works will be seen for the first time in Toronto.  

 “Form Contemporary Dance Theatre ignites a radiant rebellion on stage”  Veronica Appia, Editor-in-chief, The Theatre Reader.

Please follow this link to the DanceWorks CoWorks Series. 

Variations of Silence takes the audience on an intoxicating journey through three separate and distinct dance works: I:Variations, Revel, and Storm and Silence. Storm and Silence hit the stage 2014 to rave reviews and will resurface, as per request in this 2017 presentation with new life and deeper meaning. Revel, will be a premiere for the company, featuring and choreographed by the three Form CDT Artistic Directors. This playful piece will explore what it is to 'revel' and the facets happiness plays in our lives. I:Variations will also be a premiere work combining dance with live visual art. In its exploration of the conscious and subconscious, it will pose the question of what comes first?

“Storm & Silence by Form Contemporary Dance Theatre is beautiful, lyrical, sophisticated, and a pleasure to watch” - View Magazine

To purchase tickets, please follow the link. 

Variations of Silence takes the audience on an intoxicating journey through three separate and distinct dance works: I:Variations, Revel, and Storm and Silence. Storm and Silence hit the stage 2014 to rave reviews and will resurface, as per request in this 2017 presentation with new life and deeper meaning. Revel, will be a premiere for the company, featuring and choreographed by the three Form CDT Artistic Directors. This playful piece will explore what it is to 'revel' and the facets happiness plays in our lives. I:Variations will also be a premiere work combining dance with live visual art. In its exploration of the conscious and subconscious, it will pose the question of what comes first?

“Storm & Silence by Form Contemporary Dance Theatre is beautiful, lyrical, sophisticated, and a pleasure to watch” - View Magazine

To purchase tickets, please follow the link. 

Join us for a fun and frolicking afternoon on the Plaza.  Let's get our groove on. 

Come out and salsa with us! Move those hips, laugh a lot and support a great cause. Whether you're learning for the first time, or an experienced pro, this night is guaranteed fun! There will be food, drinks and merchandise for purchase, as well as silent auction items. All proceeds from the night will go towards supporting us, Form CDT, in our upcoming 2016/17 season. 
NO shoes required! (Cause let's be real, they hurt)
 

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRIVATE EVENT

By Invitation Only!  

Please contact us info@formcdt.ca for an invitation - because we really want to invite you - and if you didn't receive an invitation it is because well, we don't have your email address!
RVSP REQUIRED

Please join us on May 1st to enjoy the evocative and stunning photography by Chris Lashbrook and see performances by Form CDT.

"Do you have room to reflect, respond, relish, relax?
Room for Duende? To evoke - passion, praise, potential, art?
Room to breathe?
Passionately, Freely, Spontaneously, Deeply, Lightly?
Hold your breath!
Close your eyes!
Dream!
Think!"

Curated by Kiyomi & Mayumi Lashbrook

Contact the exhibitor:
http://www.chrislashbrookphotography.ca/
chris@webbandlashbrook.ca

Form Contemporary Dance Theatre is proud to present Reflective/Vulnerable. The choreography guides, pushes, and pulls audience members through physically raw movements and emotional extremes. Reflective/Vulnerable is a mixed program that opens with an interactive video installation from guest artists from The Burlington Wholeshebang. From there, each work explores different worlds filled with joyful and quirky movement; wandering rambling thoughts of the mind; and intense explorations of control, power and the people who follow and then overthrow.

Join us for our PWYC Toronto Showing! 

Wednesday & Thursday April 29 & 30, 2015, at 8 pm, $10. Choreographer and dancer Learie Mc Nicolls curates and hosts the next edition of his on-going series “Big Dance, Little Stage”, an evening of contemporary dance works for a small stage. Line-up for April 29-30, so far:
Learie Mc Nicolls dance, choreography and text,
Lisa Emmons, choreographer/performer, of Form Contemporary Dance Theatre www.formcdt.ca in Burlington (Wed eve only)
Tanya Langille, dancer, choreography by Learie Mc Nicolls
Tanis Sydney Macarthur, dancer, aerialist, choreographer, (photo right Nov 20 2014 BDLS)
Pearl Lall, dancer Bollywood-style (Wed eve only)
Megan English dance/improv choreography and Dale Morningstar live music,
Live visuals by Judith Sandiford

Learie, who has had a lengthy career in Toronto, is now based in Hamilton. In 2014, he performed his one-man show Resurrection at The Pearl Company. He was choreographer on Artword Theatre’s production of their musical play “James Street” in May 2014. Most recently his new work, “Transformation: A Journey of the Soul’s Healing”, an Artword Theatre Production, written, choreographed and performed by Learie McNicolls, directed by Ronald Weihs, was performed at Artword March 25-26, 2015.