GUELPH DANCE
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Guelph Dance is excited to announce the lineup for the 2021 festival, featuring an incredible lineup of artists, many of which are local to Guelph, through an entirely online format. Over the past year, artists have had to adapt in many ways, shaking up the creative process, calling us to celebrate the freedom of expression and process over product. Despite the circumstances, this process has created immense opportunities for connection within our community. We are excited to share with you the final works and what they reveal about the process.
All festival events will take place from May 31 to June 6, 2021 at www.guelphdance.ca and selected performances will be available for extended viewing until June 13, 2021.
May 31-June 4: Emerging Artist Intensive (created by Rowen McBride-Pilon) presents five days of online workshops and classes designed to help provide emerging dance artists with tools and information necessary to becoming a professional dance artist.
June 2: Opening Night: Dreamwalker Dance Company presents The Welcome Project: Guelph; artist meet and greet hosted by Catrina von Radecki.
June 3: On the Virtual Stage features Portal Dance Projects presenting The Returned; Virtual Late Night featuring Not Applicable Productions presenting Arcade Continuous.
June 4: In the Virtual Studio series featuring Guelph Dance Artist in Residence Georgia Simms presenting sketches/studies for unsettling; On the Virtual Stage Laboration Arts Company presenting ANNA.
June 5: African Contemporary Dance Workshop presented by Pulga Muchochoma; In the Virtual Park featuring Meredith Thompson presenting Imprint: Guelph, The Kween Company presenting Love Not War, Drew Berry presenting Portraiture, and the Emerging Artists Intensive participants presenting LAC’s ANNA; Virtual Late night Short and Sweet curated by Katie Ewald featuring 15 artists from across Canada.
June 6: Welcome! A dance workshop by Meryem Alaoui; Festival Closing hosted by Dreamwalker Dance Company.
Tickets are now available through the Guelph Dance website, guelphdance.ca. Can’t make the live presentations? Many performances will be available to watch online until June 13th, after the festival has closed.
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