The Integrated Dance Artists Collective Presents the 3rd Annual...

the pARTy!!!
Wednesday May 14th 2008, Doors at 7:30pm
1214 QUEEN STREET WEST
TICKETS $20.00 AT THE DOOR/ $15.00 Artists
(no advanced sales)

A Night of Live and Exhibited Art Installations
DANCE : FILM : MUSIC : SPOKEN WORD : VISUAL ART:
DESIGN : THEATRE

On May 14th, the Integrated Dance Artists Collective will host the pARTy: a multidisciplinary cabaret event at the Gladstone Hotel showcasing art installations and live performance. The hippest Wednesday night pARTy in the city, the line-up features an amazing group of emerging and established artists including dance, film, music, spoken word, visual art, design and theatre. Complete with a silent auction showcasing original art, music, literature and themed gifts, the pARTy will help raise funds for IDAC’s upcoming project, a new work by emerging creator, Andrea Spaziani.

Featured artists include Jenn Goodwin, Danielle Baskerville, Meagan O’Shea, Tracey Norman, Alicia Grant, Antonio Cayonne, Spencer Butt, Chastity and Charity, Geordie Lishman, Christopher Mills, Guy Godfree, Riley Gilchrist, Lesley Loksi Chan and Ella Cooper.

Join us for an evening of hot new art, free stuff, silent auction battles and [responsible] drinking. See you there!

Integrated Dance Artists Collective presents
side [a]ffects
4 cutting edge dances, 5 remarkable young dancers

>The Integrated Dance Artists Collective (IDAC) was created in 2001 by graduates of the Ryerson University B.F.A. Dance program. IDAC aims to connect artists across generations and forms of practice through the commissioning and presentation of new contemporary dance work, forging relationships with some of Canada’s leading contemporary choreographers in the process and building a foundation for the next generation of dance artists.

Over the past three years, IDAC – Shannon Litzenberger (Artistic Director), Tal Aronson, Lauren Hevenor, Elizabeth Kmiec and Andrea Spaziani – have built these relationships and the resulting side effect of this important creative process is a mixed program of four works choreographed by some of Toronto’s most celebrated choreographers: David Earle, D.A. Hoskins, Heidi Strauss and Darryl Tracy. IDAC’s energy, physicality and creative curiosity will be on full display with the highly anticipated side [a]ffects (pun intended) running September 12-16 at the Winchester Street Theatre as the kick off to the 2007/2008 DanceWorks CoWorks Series.

New Work (title tba) by seminal dance creator David Earle, is a suite of three movements with original music by Arun Pal. Guest dancer Brodie Stevenson joins the collective for this WORLD PREMIERE.

David Earle co-founded Toronto Dance Theatre in 1968 and left there in 1996 to pursue Dancetheatre David Earle. In his 40 years as a choreographer, he has created over 130 works, winning numerous awards: Walter Carson Prize, Clifford E. Lee Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award and Toronto Arts Award among them.

missing by Heidi Strauss is a powerful quintet using absence to draw a physical series of interlocking relationships within a tight-knit group.† Moments of intimacy and conflict provoke and transform each performer.† They find themselves in different and stronger places than when they began, propelled forward by each other; their energy constantly mounting.

Heidi Strauss is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and co-artistic director of Four Chambers dance project who, since 1994, has performed and choreographed her own works as well as others throughout Canada and Europe. Her AtLast was nominated for a 2005 Dora; in 2006 she choreographed and performed for the Frankfurt Opera.

Plucking Wild Flowers by Darryl Tracy explores five female characters through humour, text and strong explosive choreography. The work ranges from silliness to sobriety, from delicate bonding to fierce competition; individuality to group collaboration. Darryl's inspiration comes from the women who colour his own world and the five dynamic and beautiful dancers of IDAC. WORLD PREMIERE

Darryl C. Tracy is co-artistic director of Four Chambers dance project, currently dances with Sylvain Emard danse, sits on the faculty of The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre and has choreographed for numerous companies and dancers across the country.

The Left Seed (1992) by D.A. Hoskins is one of his very early works and features a lone woman who evokes sorrow and sensuality through rhythmic, powerful movement inspired by a traditional Judeo-Hispanic song. Shannon Litzenberger and Andrea Spaziani alternate the role. IDAC selected this piece as a link from the past to the present.

D.A. Hoskins is a prestigious Clifford E. Lee Award winner who, over the past fifteen years, has firmly established himself as a recognized dancer and choreographer, creating over 40 works in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, most recently for the Royal Conservatory’s Opera Ensemble.

Integrated Dance Artists Collective presents side [a]ffects TC \l1 "

A DanceWorks CoWorks Series Event
Wednesday September 12 to Sunday September 16
Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sun 2pm
Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street TC \l1 "
Tickets: $22 ($18 students, CADA)
Call the Box Office for tickets: 416-204-1082