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Media Release April 22, 2008 Centre Shift 2008 June 5-7, 8:00pm CCDT’s annual end-of-season showcase of new works features premières by current CCDT artist in residence, Louis Laberge-Côté and CCDT Artistic Director, Deborah Lundmark. In her new piece, Lundmark will build on her exploration of dance and live music together on stage shown in her trilogy, teenage•rain, performed last year at the Winchester Street Theatre, which included live musical accompaniment in all three works. This season a series of jazz-influenced duets will feature live musicians performing alongside her company dancers. Laberge-Côté’s commission for CCDT’s sister-company, TILT sound+motion, premiered in 2007 and is now touring Ontario in a series of residencies for young audiences. As artist in residence, he will be working with CCDT on a collaborative piece, using “the dancers' talent, imagination and experiences as teenagers to bring us all on an inspiring and enlightening journey”, Laberge-Côté describes. Last years’ showstopper by Robert Glumbek, Out and About, will return to the Winchester stage this year, along with other selections from CCDT’s 28-years of repertoire building. Capturing the explosive energy of CCDT’s young dancers, Glumbek’s first work for the company is a whirlwind of flirtatious humour. CCDT is a modern dance repertory company of dancers under 20 years of age. Founded in 1980 to present gifted, emerging young artists in professional productions, the Company has staged more than 1,000 performances from Barrie to Beijing. CCDT dancers work with celebrated Canadian choreographers in productions for audiences of both adults and children. Contact: Heather Campbell
Centre Shift Premieres by Glumbek and Lundmark shape
CCDT’s Artistic Director, Deborah Lundmark, continues her exploration of youthful emotional conflict with a première of the final instalment in her teenage•rain trilogy, for the company’s end-of-season production of Centre Shift at the Winchester Street Theatre. Centre Shift always showcases the company’s young dancers in new work by some of the country’s leading choreographers, including a new work this year by Robert Glumbek. Lundmark’s teenage•rain is a trilogy of solo, duet and quartet pieces, performed to live solo violin, guitar and accordion under the music direction of Sarah Shugarman. The first two pieces were premiered at Centre Shift 2005 and 2006, and this season brings the entire trilogy together in one showing. “I love the energy between a live musician and the dancers on stage,” says Lundmark. “It brings the music close to the dance – it makes it part of the movement.” Robert Glumbek’s first piece for CCDT will draw on his rich experience as both a dancer and choreographer. Glumbek has created works for The National Finnish Theatre, Mannheim Ballett, Princess Productions, and ProArteDanza, where he is Artistic Associate. Glumbek will be working with five CCDT dancers in his new work. The program is rounded out with work from CCDT’s rich 25-year repertoire, including choreographer Sasha Ivanochko’s kinetic, flirty grasp of youthful physicality in Earth Dance, Wire Dance. A piece originally made for the students of the School of TDT, this dance explores modern day tribal dynamics in a tongue-in-cheek manner. CCDT welcomes a member of their sister company, TILT sound+motion, to the cast of this piece. CCDT is a modern dance repertory company of dancers under 20 years of age. Founded in 1980 to present gifted, emerging young artists in professional productions, the Company has staged more than 1,000 performances from Barrie to Beijing. CCDT dancers work with celebrated Canadian choreographers in productions for audiences of both adults and children. For more information contact Heather Campbell,
416-924-5657
Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre
Presents December 15, 2006, 8:00pm Both a holiday staple and a showcase of the work that has earned CCDT its reputation over the past 25 seasons, WINTERSONG celebrates the solstice as seen through the eyes of some of the country’s top choreographers, and expressed through the movement of some of the country’s top young dancers. WINTERSONG presents an array of seasonal celebrations, and this year’s performance includes Christian, Native, Jewish and secular dance traditions, including work by CCDT’s Artistic Director, Deborah Lundmark. We will see her Ceremony of Carols, whose contemporary streetscape juxtaposed with haunting carols by Benjamin Britton have made it a WINTERSONG signature piece, much like Carol Anderson’s Nowell Sing We, which opens the 90 minute show with an explosion of medieval imagery recalling a 14th century tapestry come to life. Returning to WINTERSONG this year is Anderson’s Les Belles Heures, a three part dance on seeking inner light in the dark season of the mid-winter solstice. Kim Frank’s Doyne Suite seduces the audience with the soulfulness of Klezmer music, and excerpts from Santee Smith’s Kaha:wi show us a young Iroquois woman celebrating her welcome into adulthood, and a community brought together through the expressive power of dance to honour the continuous cycle of life. This performance concludes a residency at the Ryerson Theatre with shows and workshops for thousands of Toronto students from grades 2-8. CCDT’s ongoing residency tour throughout the province – Arts Access Ontario – aims to provide quality, curriculum-based performing arts experiences for students in an affordable, accessible manner. *** CCDT is a modern dance repertory company of
dancers under 20 years of age. Founded in 1980 to present gifted, emerging
young artists in professional productions, the Company has staged more than
1,000 performances from Barrie to Beijing. CCDT dancers work with celebrated
Canadian choreographers in productions for audiences of both adults and
children. Contact: Heather Campbell, CCDT Marketing and
Development, 416-924-5657
Centre Shift CCDT Celebrates 25 Years with New
Work, Old Favourites How does a choreographer follow up on a piece that has stayed fresh and engaging – especially to the thousands of Ontario students who see it every season – for over ten years? Gerry Trentham will soon answer that question as CCDT prepares to premiere Saving Molly, his first piece for the company’s repertoire since 1993’s Musical Chairs, and first to be created directly on CCDT dancers. Saving Molly promises this same longevity with innovative integration of video technology by American videographer Jamie O’Neil mixed with Trentham’s innate sense of comedy and theatricality. The company celebrates 25 performance years with two favourites from CCDT’s repertoire, featuring guest appearances from CCDT alumni in David Earle’s 1998 classic Serious Games, and a remount of Sephardic Songs, a 1992 work by Carol Anderson. Sasha Ivanochko shows her kinetic, flirty grasp of youthful physicality with Earth Dance, Wire Dance. With couples and groups forming and breaking apart, the dance explores modern day tribal dynamics in a tongue-in-cheek manner. CCDT’s Artistic Director, Deborah Lundmark, will continue her love of mixing music and dance onstage with a new piece incorporating two duets to music by the Finnish group Pan Sonic, and featuring live electric guitar alongside her company dancers. With an aggressive rock n’ roll energy, this piece reflects the everyday reality of these young dancers’ lives. A remount of CCDT’s 2005 commission by Michael Trent will be brought back to the Winchester Street Theatre stage where it stole the show at its premiere last year. Trent’s The promise of…, which addresses the ever-present and ever-growing impact of American fundamental right-wing ideology, was generously supported by the Laidlaw Foundation. “Some may have argued that this topic was poorly matched with the experience and maturity of the group with which it was explored,” says Trent of his experience with CCDT’s young dancers. “I even counted myself among that group of early doubters. But risk-taking is at the heart of my mission as an artist. I was hugely impressed that the five dancers with whom I had the pleasure of working were exceptional in their focus, maturity, professionalism and openness.” For more information please contact Heather Campbell, 416-924-5657 |
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