NAAAP Toronto's 6th Anniversary Business Mixer

Featuring fu-GEN | Bringing you an exciting event where the audience will be dancing for their Lives with Singkil: 101
Thursday, January 18th, 2007

7:00 pm Singkil: 101 - Audience Dance Experience and General Reception
8:00 pm Performance of Singkil
10:00 pm Post-show talk-back with cast members

Factory Studio Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide)
Toronto ON M5V 2R2
Tel. 416.504.4473

NAAAP Members and Non Members: $18.00

For Tickets, call the box office at 416.504.9971 or Visit www.factorytheatre.ca.
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Also, RSVP prior to Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 5:00 pm via email to rsvp@naaaptoronto.org or
directly on our website www.naaaptoronto.org

Sure, you can watch. But can you take a risk?

With the creators of last year's hit play, Banana Boys, NAAAP Toronto has something exciting in store to ring in the new year. The performance of fu-GEN's Singkil:101 won't be any sit-down affair. Before the show, the audience will get the chance to learn the ancient Filipino dance - the infamous Singkil - themselves. No experience is required, just daring individuals who are willing to walk through beating bamboo at lightning speed. Catherine Hernandez, the playwright behind Singkil, will guide brave patrons through one of the most adventurous dances of Filipino folklore.

"It's such an amazing sensation to walk through the bamboo to a hypnotic rhythm. It's scary, it's thrilling. It's graceful, it's seductive," says Hernandez. "I can't wait for our audience to experience the Singkil for themselves."

The evening will also feature interactive displays by Factory Theatre's 2006/2007 Scholarship students. The main performance of Singkil is a play about a young woman who must stumble through an ancient dance to forgive her undead mother. This is a story of transformation, family and loss. Mirroring the Filipino folklore of a Muslim princess who gracefully braved an earthquake, Hernandez weaves a modern day tale of a young woman struggling to come to terms with her family's darkest secret and the relentless grip of the past.

NAAAP Toronto's signature monthly Business Mixers coupled with our Professional Development Series are designed to be your professional community forum, enjoy lively conversation, mix and mingle, build new contacts and get re-acquainted with old ones at some of Toronto's most popular evening hot spots.