In Conversation: Toronto Dance Theatre - Rare MixHosted by Melissa Mahady-Wilton, these moderated pre-show discussions give audiences the chance to find out more about the performance before seeing the show. Held at 6:30 pm at the Grand Theatre. We appreciate your RSVP to this event, but it is not required.
Talkback: Toronto Dance Theatre - Rare Mix. Join us for a lively post-show conversation hosted by Melissa Mahady-Wilton.
A Rare Mix offers an evening of TDT repertoire, featuring two masterworks by Christopher House set to the music of Robert Moran – the inspired Four Towers and Vena Cava – and Pond Skaters created for TDT in 2013 by Belgian guest choreographer Thomas Hauert.
Four Towers (1993) was inspired by composer Robert Moran’s music for the opera From the Towers of the Moon. Performed in four contrasting movements, the work evokes the mystery, introspection and joy of the opera. Four Towers “conveys a delicate feeling of grace and fragility, sadness and freedom” (The Ottawa Citizen).
An audience favourite, Vena Cava (1999) is a classic kinetic work by Christopher House, also set to the dynamic music of composer Robert Moran. A tour de force of lightning-fast, rhythmically thrilling dancing, the choreography set to Moran’s Open Veins is a “dramatic and exhilarating showcase” (The New York Times) of “high-energy, high-flying contemporary movement" (Toronto Star), and “wall-to-wall, relentless dance” (The Globe and Mail).
New to the TDT repertoire, Pond Skaters (2013), by celebrated Belgian choreographer Thomas Hauert, features five dancers who follow a disciplined framework of structured improvisation. The result is a performance which is “utterly fresh” (NOW Magazine) and “extraordinary, as if their intertwined limbs became an organic whole” (Toronto Star).
Tickets: $19/$37/$42 + HST and handling fee.
This show qualifies for IMPACT and eyeGo pricing.
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