inDANCE

As a start to our fall calendar, we are pleased to announce that inDANCE has been invited by Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada to present new work for its 8th international dance festival on Thursday, September 28 at 7.30pm at the Premiere Dance Theatre (Harbourfront Centre in Toronto).

inDANCE will be presenting the second version of our latest contemporary work Inverse with an original score and sound design by composer Phil Strong. Inverse represents the culmination of 14 months of new movement research and choreographic labs.

Having premiered in April 13-15, 2006, Purnima/Full Moon was described by Toronto Star dance critic Susan Walker as 'a kind of enchantment to take us back to the temples and palaces of long ago south India when court dances celebrated romantic love in song and movement.' Noted dance critic Michael Crabb in Fall 2006 issue of Dance International writes the work 'was profoundly sensual and less concerned with tales of ancient gods than the more yearnings of the human heart and loins. Purnima/Full Moon also asserts confident Indian womanhood, referencing the fact temple dancers of old had considerable independence'. Arts critic Glenn Sumi from Toronto's Now magazine writes, 'Purnima/Full Moon , explores the sensuality and eroticism that was part of Indian dance before the Victorian morality of British imperialism put a lid on all that. One of the great things about (an inDANCE) show is its eclecticism. Not only is the dance troupe ethnically all over the map, but the people collaborating, bring their own backgrounds.'

The performance takes place on Thursday, Sept 28, 2006 at 7.30pm at the Premiere Dance Theatre. The evening also features India based dance artists Sujata Mohapatra (Odissi) and Ileana Citaristi (Chau).

The festival runs from Sept 22-Oct 1, 2006. For more information about the festival, please visit: www.kalanidhifinearts.org.

In keeping with inDANCE's mandate, we continue to collaborate with artists engaged in various forms of cultural practice to produce original Canadian works, and to create new, cutting-edge work rooted in Indian dance and music.

For tickets, please call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416-973-4000.
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