PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

ONE NIGHT ONLY – Special Welcome Event for PCC attendees!
RED: A Night of Live Performance, curated by Lisa Pijuan-Nomura (Toronto)
Part of FREE FALL
RED: A Night of Live Performance is held bi-monthly at the beautiful Lula Lounge. This evening presents actors, dancers, puppeteers, stilt walkers, pregnant belly dancers, clowns, filmmakers, spoken word artists and many more performing artists. Over 150 of Toronto’s top artists have performed at RED.
Check www.girlcancreate.com for line-up.

Venue: Lula Lounge – 1585 Dundas St. West (just west of Dufferin)
Wednesday Feb. 1 @ 8:30pm
Tickets: $10 for PCC participants
Box office: 416 591-0225

The Theatre Centre presents
FREE FALL – performance without a net
a national festival of experimental performance
curators: Franco Boni, David Duclos, Stephen O’Connell, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura

Free Fall is designed to celebrate innovation by bringing together groups of artists who not only challenge conventional notions of theatrical presentation, but have also adopted new and original approaches to the creative process.

What these artists have in common is a predilection for risk and a healthy aversion to convention. In many respects this event serves to highlight some of the various regional responses to a shifting performance paradigm. While a few have chosen to remain within the theatrical frame, others have left the stage to inhabit the public space. Arriving at the same juncture from different disciplines (dance, theatre, music or film) all of these artists embrace a hybrid vocabulary.

SEVEN COMPANIES FROM ACROSS CANADA
RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City) EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto)
ATSA (Montreal) HAIRCUT (Toronto) BOCA DEL LUPO (Vancouver)
MELODEON (Toronto) 2b THEATRE (Halifax)
Also featuring RED a showcase of local interdisciplinary talent
Click here for full schedule

Venues: Festival Mainstage – The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen St. West)
Festival Offsites – The Lennox Gallery, Lula Lounge, Beaver Café, YYZ Artists’ Outlet
Thursday Jan. 26 – Sunday Feb. 5
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 artist, $10 student rush seating,$40 festival pass
Box Office: 416 538-0988 or online through TO TIX at www.totix.ca

PERFORMANCES AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE

Box Office: 416 973-4000
Box Office hours: (Tues-Sat, 1-8 pm)
www.harbourfrontcentre.com

Julia Sasso dances (Toronto) – the betrayal project
An explosive hit with audiences and critics alike in 2003, Julia Sasso dances promises to amaze us again with the betrayal project. Pulsing with the far-reaching rhythms of the human heart, this potent new creation for Sasso’s stellar company lays bare the deepest paradoxes of our living, loving, leaving.
www.juliasasso.com

Part of the Harbourfront Centre 2005-2006 Dance Season.

Venue: Premiere Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West (3rd floor)
Tuesday, Jan. 31 – Saturday, Feb. 4 @ 8 pm
Tickets: $17 - $27 (Special price for PCC participants; quote "PCC 06" to access the
discounted rate)

Art of Time Ensemble (Toronto) - In a Landscape
Over a maniacally futile piano backdrop, an announcer runs the gamut of responses from exasperated to resigned while waiting for the “star” to materialise. In Brute, Sasha Ivanochko presents her explosive physicality and dramatic presence in Peggy Baker’s piece inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, an anti-war statement filled with disturbing images of brutality.

Venue: Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West
Friday, Feb. 3 – Saturday, Feb. 4 @ 8 pm
Tickets: $35 regular / $25 students and seniors
Students/seniors: $25

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents
The 28th RHUBARB! Festival

Box Office: 416-975-8555
www.buddiesinbadtimestheatre.com

Festival directors Erika Hennebury & David Oiye

It's tart, it's tangy, it's Rhubarb. Canada's premiere showcase of cutting-edge theatre returns for its 28th outing. Feast on the tasty offerings as Toronto artists put their imaginations to the test for three weeks in February. A perfect way to clear away those mid-winter blues.

With THE 28th RHUBARB! FESTIVAL, Erika Hennebury and David Oiye offer a diverse line-up that boasts vital and inspired new creations from front-line indie artists such as Hannah Moscovitch, Natasha Mytnowych, Andrea Donaldson, Small Wooden Shoe (Jacob Zimmer with Chad Dembski, Jacob Wren, Ame Henderson, Kilby Smith-McGregor, Trevor Schwellnus, Brendan Healy), David Tomlinson, Greg Kearney, David Bateman, Marsha McDonald, Jason Hall, Daniel Nyman, Erika Batdorf, Douglas Rodger, Njo Kong Kie, Michael Rubenfeld, Caleb Yong, Judith Snow, Donald Carr, Hume Baugh, David Roche, Tara and Patrick Beagan, Rose Cullis, Bill Zaget, JP Robichaud, Noah Kenneally, Natalie Meisner (Regina), Sarah Fourage (France), Clea Minaker (Montreal) and more...

Late night performance Friday, February 3 at 11 pm
Club night Saturday, February 4 at 10:30 pm

Click here for a schedule of Rhubarb! performances and more information

Venue: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.
Wednesday, Feb. 1 – Sunday, Feb. 19 @ 8 pm