July 2015 - Dance Ontario

H E A D L I N E S —news from Ontario’s vibrant and diverse dance sector
July—September 2015
this issue
Annual General Meeting Notice—1
Jacque Foesier Youth Dance
Award—2
Fixed Date Membership—2
Members News—2 & 3
Federal and Provincial Updates—2
Job Opportunities & Web Ads—4
Open Classes, Auditions, Calls,
Workshops, New Members—5
Performance Events—6
Headlines is a publication of Dance
Ontario Association. Founded in 1976
and incorporated not-for-profit (1985),
the Association is a dynamic cross section of Ontario’s dance sector from
internationally renowned companies to
individual dance artists and production
professionals.
Dance Ontario Annual General Meeting
The 2014-15 Annual General Meeting of the association will take place on Friday
Dance Ontario Association
15 Case Goods Lane, #304
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
T 416 204 10183
[email protected]
www.danceontario.ca
September 25, 2015 at Canada’s National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis Street, Toronto from
noon until 1pm.
The Board slate will be
STAFF
Rosslyn Jacob Edwards
Amy Hampton, Julie McLachlan
Donna Bayley, Catherine Carpenko ,
Jade Jager Clark , Debbie Kapp
James Kendal, Cynthia Lickers-Sage, Kate Lowe,
Tina Nicolaidis, Ofilio Portillo, Lola Ryan
Anjelica Scannura, Samara Thompson,
Jennifer Watkins, Sashar Zarif
Up to two (2) more names may be added to the slate. If you are interested in self-nominating or nominating a member in good standing, please send in a nomination form available for download on the website by September 1, 2015 to [email protected] or by mail to our Head Office at 15 Case Goods
Lane, Studio 304, Toronto, Ontario M5A 3C4. Reminder e-bulletins will be sent closer to the deadline.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Peter Ryan (Chair)
Jennifer Watkins (Vice Chair)
Debbie Kapp (Treasurer)
Jade Jager Clark (Secretary)
Catherine Carpenko (Past Chair)
Donna Bayley, James Kendal,
Cynthia Lickers-Sage, Kate Lowe,
Tina Nicolaidis, Ofilio Portillo,
Anjelica Scannura,
Samara Thompson, Sashar Zarif
DOYB (Dance Ontario Youth Board)
Jade Jager Clarke (Chair)
Una Wabinski
Makeda Benitez
Madison Gray
Dance Ontario Call for Nominations
Association and Members’ News
Call for Nominations—Jacque
Foesier Youth Dance Award
Dance Ontario is soliciting nominations
for the JACQUE FOESIER YOUTH DANCE
AWARD. This annual award seeks to recognize exceptional young dancers ages 19
& under who are not only pursuing excellence in their craft but go above and beyond making a difference in the lives of
others and/or contributing to the dance
community. For more info and nomination forms, please visit the website.
DanceWeekend’16—
DanceWeekend’16 will take place at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre
from January 15—17, 2016. Programming
is currently in process. Member companies please note that in order to be eligible for selection, your membership must
be current. We anticipate programming
approx. 25 groups in addition to the two
commissioned artists. Please check the
website regularly for updates.
CHANGE TO FIXED MEMBERSHIP DUE DATE OF OCT 15—
Dance Ontario will be making changes to
the membership due date this year because of cashflow issues for the last quarter of our fiscal year. Therefore all members will be invoiced for fees at the beginning of October. Those members who are
current, or who recently joined may remit
their dues by Dec 31, 2015. In conjunction
with these changes and in response to the
considerable increase in postage, Dance
Ontario will be looking at distribution
changes regarding ‘headlines’ to be instigated this fall.
Members’ News— DANCE
UMBRELLA OF ONTARIO (DUO)
announced the appointment of Robert
Sauvey as its new Executive Director. Robert succeeds Jennifer Bennett who has led
the organization since 2012. Robert
brings a wealth of experience to the role,
through his long and varied career working as a senior arts administrator in both the live and recorded arts. He
most recently served as the Executive
Director for Dancemakers, where he effectively led the company through a meaningful period of organizational transition.
Prior to Dancemakers, he played key leadership roles at Groundswell Inc., Winnipeg’s longest running new music presenter, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and his own
film and television production company,
Ocular Productions.
- HALTON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD held
its 10th annual dance festival,
"Florescence - Celebrating International
Dance Day" last April at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre
in Oakville. The inspiring keynote address
delivered by Colleen Golightly of Tiger
Jeet Singh Elementary School was followed by technique workshops taught by
area clinicians: Georgia Simms and Adam
Bowman (Modern), Matt Willis (Hiphop),
Jessica Westermann (Rhythm and Tap),
Valerie and Roger Scannura (Flamenco),
Leslie Gray (Music Theatre), Lisa Emmons
(Contemporary), Heather Lewis (Tribal/
Caribbean/Drumming) and Kamal Samra
(Bollywood/Bhangra). The morning ended
with a show and share session.
In the afternoon, the HDSB teachers led
creative workshops according to the Ontario Dance Curriculum with a theme of
the four elements: earth, wind, water
and fire. The culminating theatre in the
round performance was moving and
thought provoking.
- THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN BALLET : 2015
marks the 40th Anniversary of The Society
of Russian Ballet, Canadian independent
branch. The dance education and training
organization founded on the Vaganova
Method of ballet offers examinations for
students and assists teachers with professional development and certification.
Founded in England, the Society opened a
Canadian branch in 1975 to preserve and
promote Russian-styled training in classical ballet.
“We are elated to be celebrating this occasion,” says Chair of the Society, Jane
Pound. “Teaching the Vaganova
syllabus to thousands of dancers over the
Federal and Provincial
Updates
The budget for Ontario’s Ministry
of Tourism, Culture and Sport has
been reduced from $1.424 million
in 2012/13 to $1.274 million in
2015/16. The Ontario Arts Council
allocation will not be cut (although
the funding body will be relocating
to minimize administrative costs)
and the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s base funding remains unchanged.
The Canadian Arts Coalition (CAC)
was disappointed to learn that the
Canada Council for the Arts was
not considered one of the federal
government’s priorities in Budget
2015. The CAC had been hopeful
that its recommendation to increase the operating budget would
be adopted after participating in
the pre-budget consultations.
The Canada Council for the Arts is
set to release the new funding criteria this fall for programming in
2017.
Statistics Canada’s release of the
Provincial and Territorial Culture
Satellite Account, 2010 report provides insight into the economic
importance of arts and culture
across Canada. Arts, culture and
heritage products represent $21.9
billion of Ontario’s gross domestic
product (GDP) and over 278,800
jobs. This “product perspective”
includes the contribution of culture
products (goods and services) from
both culture industries and nonculture industries. Ontario’s arts,
culture and heritage sector represents $23.8 billion or 4 % of the
province’s GDP and over 301,000
jobs. This “industry perspective”
measures all of the sector’s output.
years has been a joy. To see the development of the dancers and teachers is truly
rewarding.”
To commemorate this anniversary, dancers
and dance teachers from across the country and beyond will gather in Ottawa for
this year’s seminar, entitled “En-Avant –
Moving Forward”. The two-day Seminar
will take place August 22 and 23, 2015 at
National Capital Dance Educators.
For More Information:
http://societyofrussianballet.org
QUINTE BALLET SCHOOL OF CANADA
Hard work really pays off! After weeks of
daily voting by committed supporters,
friends and staff, the Quinte Ballet School
of Canada (QBSC) is proud to announce
they placed first in ADP’s Small Business
Grant Contest and are the recipient of
$10,000! A payroll processing and human
resource company with offices across Canada, ADP offers a $10,000 grant each
month from November to April to a small
business chosen by an internal jury. To
qualify for this final jurying process, the
five businesses with the most online votes
by the end of each month were chosen to
be reviewed. QBSC was informed in early
May they had placed in the top five after
the April voting period and are deeply
grateful to the many dedicated people who
helped make this a goal achieved.
enjoyable environment. We have a highly
experienced faculty with graduates from
Ryerson University and The University of
Surrey in dance related fields. We offer the
highest quality in dance education with
classes in both recreational and competitive dance. This includes RAD Ballet exams,
Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Contemporary and
Acro. Our award winning competitive team
boasts many overall awards, special
awards and choreography acknowledgements every season and growing!
As a growing studio and we would like to
thank Dance Ontario for the opportunity to
be featured on their website. Melissa Bartrem and the Intermediate Ballet class had
an excellent time filming the winning entry
in celebration of International Dance Day!
If you would like to know more about
Corinne's School of Dance, please contact
Corinne Peterson, owner and director @
[email protected]
PEGGY BAKER was honoured as this year's
recipient of The George Luscombe Award
for Mentorship inaugurated by the Toronto Alliance For The Performing Arts in 1999
and named for revolutionary theatre
DORA MAVOR MOORE RECIPIENTS—
bravo to the following Dance Ontario
members who were honoured at the
Toronto Theatre Alliance’s recent
Dora Mavor Moore Awards:
Outstanding Choreography—James
Kudelka (#lovesexbrahms (Intermezzi)
for Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie/
Art of Time
Outstanding Performance
(Male) - Vincent Mantsoe (NTU)
for DanceWorks
Congratulations to JADE JAGER CLARK who
is the new dance programmer for Manifesto Festival running Sept 16-20th!
DANCE ONTARIO YOUTH BOARD (DOYB)
’s Instagram IDD Media Campaign—
Congratulations to Corrine's School of
Dance, the winner of Dance Ontario's 2015
International Dance Day Media Campaign!
See their submission below.
https://instagram.com/p/2Cr4oZDnZe/?
taken-by=dance_ontario
Corinne's School of Dance aims to create a
positive and nurturing environment that
fosters the love of dance. Located in Keswick, Ontario; we are a small town studio
with a big heart! This was most recently
acknowledged by winning an overall
“studio spirit award” with less than twenty
competitive team members! As a growing
studio we aim to instill dignity and respect
for others, ourselves and the discipline of
dance in all of our students.
We believe that everyone can dance! This
is reflected in our commitment to providing
an equal opportunity for all students to
achieve their potential within a safe and
ALLEN KAEJA has been been nominated for the 2015 Ontario Arts
Foundation Artist Educator Award.
The Ontario Arts Foundation Artist
Educator Award is given to an Ontario
resident who exemplifies excellence
in arts education, demonstrates a
unique approach to their arts education practice, creates meaningful
learning experiences for young people, inspires connections to the arts
beyond the classroom and continues
to maintain an active arts practice. A
jury of arts education professionals
will select the winner this summer
and results will be announced in September.
Outstanding Performance
(Female) - Caroline Fraser (Skills
& Soul Battles) for Gadfly/TUDS
founder and artistic director George Luscombe. Peggy Baker is Artistic Director of
Peggy Baker Dance Projects and Artist-inResidence at Canada's National Ballet
School. She began her career in 1974 as a
founding member of Toronto's Dancemakers, toured internationally with Lar Lubovitch's celebrated New York company
throughout the eighties, and joined Mikhail
Baryshnikov and Mark Morris for the inaugural season of their White Oak Dance Project in 1990. Image by John Lauener
Outstanding Sound Design/
Composition—Nicolas Hernandez after Nicolas Hernandez &
Joe Luis Valle (Chuscales) Pueblo/Letters To Spain for Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company
Oustanding Lighting Design—Simon
Rossiter (#lovesexbrahms Intermezzi)
for Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie
with Art of Time
Our sincere congratulations to all the
nominees and recipients!
Job Opportunities
TEACHING POSITIONS
for full listings see—www.danceontario.ca/Jobs)
ONTARIO WIDE: UGOTDANCE
www.ugotdance.com
Quick Ball Change [email protected]
Outside Looking In Urban dance
[email protected]
Travelling Stage Co Dance and Drama
www.thetravellingstage.com
Conservatory of Dance & Music: various
[email protected]
DancePl3Y—Dance Instructors/Master Trainers
[email protected]
AJAX: Ajax Dance Company Hip-Hop Instructor
[email protected]
Protégé Dance Company
[email protected]
ANCASTER: Pure Rhythm Dance Company
[email protected]
AURORA: RAD & Vocal Instructor needed for
new studio [email protected]
BARRIE: Dance Inc. Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Acro, Musical Theatre
[email protected]
BOWMANVILLE: Aspire Acrobatics Ballet, Jazz
& Tap Instructors [email protected]
BRAMPTON: Jessica’s Dance Innovations Acro
instructor [email protected].
Dancercise: Ballet Teacher for 2015/16
[email protected]
CAMBRIDGE: Element Dance Arts 2015/16
year [email protected]
CONCORD: Rhythm & Grace Dance Academy
Tap [email protected]
HAMILTON: Independent Dance Movement
looking for Acro, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Ballet
and others.
[email protected]
INGEROLL: Diamond Dance Centre Acro & Tap
[email protected]
MARKHAM: K & K Dance Dreamz—committed
long-term instructors Competitive Jazz/Lyrical/
Contemporary and Recreational Jazz/Hip Hop/
Contemporary/Lyrical [email protected].
Kicks Dance Studio Markham 2015-16 season
[email protected]
ORANGEVILLE: Academy of Performing Arts
Ballet [email protected]
THORNHILL: Allegro Dance School Jazz, Tap,
Acro Teacher for 2015/16
[email protected]
TORONTO: Sean Boutilier Dance Academy
2015-16 season
[email protected]
Ronnie & Romaine Studio Teachers for 201516 year [email protected]
Martha Hicks School of Ballet Teachers for
2015-16 [email protected]
Star Dance Academy Hip Hop & Acro [email protected].
Artistic Edge Ballet & Pointe [email protected]
VAUGHAN: Dance Streams Studio Acro, Jazz,
Tap, Breakdance [email protected]
WHITBY/OSHAWA: Bisland Dance Centre
Teachers for 2015-16 season
[email protected]
Kim Thomas Dance Company Tap & Acro
[email protected]
The Durham School of Ballet & Contemporary
Dance seeks contemporatry dance teacher
[email protected]
CALGARY (Alta): School of Creative Performing
Arts at Calgary U seeking guest artists for 2016
[email protected]
MEDICINE HAT (Alta) Medicine Hat College’s
Conservatory of Music and Dance is seeking to
fill the following positions to build and achieve
the dreams of dancers: Full time RAD Ballet
Instructor, Part time Dance Instructors for Competitive/Recreational hip hop, tap and modern
classes. Additional forms of dance include musical theatre and acro
Please submit a cover letter quoting Competition #115097 with your resume and the names
of three references. This competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
[email protected]
ADMINISTRATIVE
POSITIONS
Studio Administrator/Director’s Assistant Richmond Hill [email protected]
Alberta Ballet is looking for a Ballet Master/
Mistress commencing Sept’15. Send to [email protected]
Ontario School of Ballet Admin Staff for
Expansion [email protected]
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MEMBERS’ OPEN CLASSES
(see also website for up-to-date listings)
BARRIE—Simcoe Contemporary Dancers
705-718-5451
BURLINGTON—Burlington Footnotes & Co
burlingtonfootnotes.com(tap/jazz/clogging)
GUELPH—Dancetheatre David Earle dtde.ca
(Graham-based Modern)
HAMILTON—McMaster Centre for Dance 905
525 9140 x 23571 (All Forms)
MARKHAM—K & K Dance Dreamz
905 201 8909
Ovation Performing Arts
ovationarts.ca
MISSISSAUGA - Dance Kraze (Hip-Hop)
416 885 2715
Tap Dance Centre (Kids/Adults/Teachers/Profs)
tapdancecentre.com
What’s On? Tap! (Advanced/Master Tap)
whats-on-tap. com
OTTAWA—Dance Network
[email protected](Contact Improv/
Capoeira/Tango/yoga/injury prevention)
THORNHILL—T.O. Tap (Tap)
[email protected]
The Center Of Movement Pilates for Dance
[email protected]
TORONTO— Academy of Spanish Dance
[email protected]
AfroLatino Dance Company afrolatinodc.com
(AfroCuban/Cuban Cabaret)
Arabesque (40 Drop In classes/wk!)
416 920 5593
Ballet Espressivo (Beg/Adv Ballet/ Body Wisdom) 647 294 0784
Ballet Jorgen (Professional)
416 415 2035
Body Resource Studio (Pilates) 416 360 3816
Brazil Dance World (Samba)brazildanceworld.com
The Center of Movement (Barbie Dukes)
905 764 8222
City Dance Corps (Salsa/Ballet/Tap/Jam/Open)
416 260 2356
COBA (Adult Dance & Drum) [email protected]
Contact Improv (Introductory)
416 879 8108
Contact Jam Sundays 11 am
416 537 4866
Wednesday Contact Jam
416 545 1515
Dance Kraze Jazz, Hip Hop
.dancekrazeproductions.com
Dancemakers Company Class (modern)
416 367 1800
Dance Teq (Ballet/Modern/Jazz/Hip-Hop/
Bellydance)
416 361 9498
Fujiwara Dance Inventions
[email protected]
(Butoh/Improvization)
Gadfly Dance (Hip-Hop/Break)
OfilioandApolonia.com
Harbourfront Community Centre 416 392 1509
(Bollywood, Belly, Hip-Hop, Children’s)
Hercini Arts (Aerial)
herciniarts.com
Joy of Dance Centre & Teachers College
joyofdance.ca (Ballet, Ballroom, Bollywood-toHip-Hop, Jazz, Zumba)
Kaeja d’Dance (Master Classes) 416 537 5153
KDSSC - Soo Ryu School of Dance and Drum
Korean Dance
Latin & Ballroom Dance
416 598 5354
Lindsay Ritter, SMASH Productions
(Commercial Jazz)
416 817 5460
Modern Movement
416 899 6525
(Adult/Recreational/Modern)
Movement Lab (Ballet/Modern/Jazz)
416 529 5146
National Ballet of Canada In Studio
416 345 9686 national.ballet.ca/instudio
Newton Moraes (Adult Brazilian) 416 960 0350
O.I.P. Dance Centre
647 477 5225
(Hip-Hop/Break/Reggae/DanceFIT/Jazz)
Kathleen Rea
[email protected]
Shayenne Productions African Dance
luashayenne.com
Skinner Releasing [email protected]
T.O. Tap
905 889 8488
Toronto Dance Theatre [email protected]
(Ballet for contemporary dancers/Yoga)
AUDITIONS
(for full listings see www.danceontario.ca Auditions/
Jobs)
Inspiracion Latina Dance—festivals, weddings,
parties etc. [email protected] or
call at 647-558-2726
Polynesian Dream- Hawaiian Dancers to expand its roster for Paid Shows
www.PolynesianDream.com (416) 832-3438
Go Dance International - Male and Female
Dancers [email protected]
Sanskriti Arts - Bollywood Dancers [email protected]
Samba Brasil Entertainment send resume,
head shot, full body shot, video (optional) to
[email protected]
Toronto Raptors Dance Pak July 11, 2015
[email protected]
CALLS and
SUBMISSIONS
Series 8:08 (Monthly Perf Workshop)
www.series808.ca
CONFERENCES
Canadian Dance Assembly’s National
Conference, Sept 28-29, 2015 @
Creating a Culture of Success: Getting
Good Ideas Off the Ground
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
[email protected] cda-acd.ca
Canada Salsa & Bachata Conference,
Oct 8-13 @ the Royal York Hotel,
Toronto canadasalsacongress.com
National Capital Dance Educators
Aug 22-23, Ottawa
http://societyofrussianballet.org
WORKSHOPS
Liberty Dance Technique & Wellness
Workshop, Summer Dance Camps July
6-10 and Aug 17-21 , Toronto
libertydance.org
Peggy Baker Dance Projects August
Intensive , Aug 10-14 @ 400 Jarvis St.,
TO [email protected]
Welcome New Members
Brampton: Jamaica Fraser
Brockville: Pamela Crosby
Grimsby: Candice Pelletier
Guelph: Peter Kelly
Kitchener: Emily Keating
London: Jacan Group, Brenda
Branco/All4One Dance
Merrickville: Billy Yeung/Bold
Studio
Mississauga: Alysha Cugini
Oakville: Kristen Klopko/Arcade
Dance
Pickering: Trudy Gayle
Thornhill: Debbie Rosenberg/
Debbie’s Dance
Toronto: Kevin Ormsby/
KasheDance, Shakeil Rollock,
Aaron Libfeld & The Underground
Dance, Karissa Fyrrar, Rose Hajas,
Dainty Smith, Jeff Dimitrio, Jacob
Niedzwiecki, Cassandra Wiesner,
Nathlineen Doung/DARK, Charissa
Zoetmulder, Sarita Gayle Alvarez,
Natalie Kamino
Dance Educators International
Whitby: Layne Dietsch
Calgary (Alta): Allara Gooliaf
Montreal (Que): Eva Kolarova
St. Johns: (Nfld) Carolyn Morris
PERFORMANCE EVENTS
July
Jacob’s Pillow Festival 2015
July –Aug
Massachusetts
jacobspillow.org
Harbourfront Centre
Dancing On The Pier
July 2-Aug 22
*DanzAbierta
July 11-13
416 973 4000
Panamania*
July 15—Aug 15
Toronto various locations
TORONTO2015.org/PANAMANIA
Coexisdance 73
Majlis Art Garden, 168 Walnut Avenue
Toronto
Canadian Stage
*Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young July 23
Bluma Appel Theatre, TO
August
dance:made in Canada
Toronto
Dusk dances
Toronto
Aug 3
Harbourfront Centre
Dancing On The Pier
416 973 4000
-Aug 22
DanceWorks Mainstage Series
Daniel Levielle Danse
Oct 23-24
Harbourfront Centre Theatre, TO
416 973 4000
Aug 16
Sony Centre Twyla Tharp Oct 30– Nov 1
Sony Centre, TO
www.sonycentre.ca
September
Manifesto Festival
Toronto
Motus O Dance Theatre
25th Anniversary Birthday Bash
Stouffville
Sept 19
*part of Panamania
DanceWorks Mainstage Series
Tribal Crackling Wind
Sept 24-26
Harbourfront Centre Theatre, TO
416 973 4000
Fall For Dance North
Sony Centre, TO
www.sonycentre.ca
Sept 29—Oct 1
DANCE ONTARIO ASSOCIATION
15 Case Goods Lane, Ste 304
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
October
Fall for Dance North
Sony Centre, TO
Oct 1
danceontario.ca [email protected]
Images: (cover) Aria Evans
(p.2) Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre
(p.3) Peggy Baker by John Lauener
(p.4) Ariel Len/Zoey’s Projects
Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, Hercinia Arts Collective
(p.5) Ottawa Dance Directive
(back) Kaeja d’Dance by Aria Evans