2021 Guelph Dance Festival

Opening Night

Dreamwalker Dance Company

Wednesday, June 2nd at 7:00 (live event, no talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Toronto & Guelph, ON

The Welcome Gesture-Guelph Year of creation: 2020-21

Set in motion by choreographer Andrea Nann. Audiences go behind the scenes in a short documentary of The Welcome Project: Sharing Stories Guelph, a unique …

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Artist Meet & Greet

Wednesday, June 2nd at 8:00pm (live event, not available for extended viewing)

Join festival artists as they share some insights into their work and the performances taking place at the 2021 Guelph Dance Festival.

In the Virtual Park

Meredith Thompson

Saturday, June 5th at 7:00pm (live event with artist talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Toronto/Guelph, ON

Imprint Year of creation: 2019

Choreographed by Meredith Thompson

IMPRINT Day to day, and moment to moment, we exist and live suspended by ten thousand threads of connection and interdependence – they tie us …

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The Kween Company

Saturday, June 5th at 7:00pm (live event with artist talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Guelph, ON

Love Not War Year of creation: 2021

Choreographed by Kween

The piece is a story telling dance documentary through BIPOC community members. This is a story of both trial and tribulation. A journey of our …

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Drew Berry

Saturday, June 5th at 7:00pm (live event with artist talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Guelph/Toronto, ON

Portraiture Year of creation: 2021

Choreographed by Drew Berry

Portraiture is a cinematic manifestation of a personal journal. In an attempt to accurately capture the artist’s emotional and environmental shifts throughout one year, journal …

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Laboration Art Company

Saturday, June 5th at 7:00pm (live event with artist talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Across Canada & France

ANNA-Emerging Artist Intensive Repertoire Year of creation: 2021

Choreographed by Laura Arend

During the week long Guelph Dance Emerging Artist Intensive, participants worked with French choreographer Laura Arend to learn and interpret her piece “ANNA”. Filmed are …

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On the Virtual Stage

Portal Dance

Thursday, June 3rd at 7:00pm (live event with artist talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Guelph, ON

The Returned Year of creation: 2021

Choreographed by Janet Johnson

The Returned is a new contemporary dance film that seeks to understand the time and place in which we currently live, as well as the …

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Laboration Art Company

Friday, June 4th at 8:00pm (live event, no talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Paris, France

ANNA Year of creation: 2018

Choreographed by Laura Arend

After reading an article on Germanic female personalities from the 19th to the 21st century, the choreographer, Laura Arend, decided to take inspiration from the …

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In the Virtual Studio

Georgia Simms

Friday, June 4th at 7:00pm (live event with artist talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13

Guelph, ON

sketches/studies for unsettling Year of creation: 2021

Choreographed by Georgia Simms

Georgia offers an in-process glimpse into her 50 hours of solo studio time during the Guelph Dance residency. She will share unfinished sketches, improvisations and …

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Virtual Late Night

Not Applicable Productions

Thursday, June 3rd at 9:00pm (live event with artist talkback, available for extended viewing until June 13)

Toronto, ON

Arcade Continuous Year of creation: 2019

Choreographed by Robert Kingsbury

Arcade Continuous is a group dance that explores how the fields of somatics and videogaming might meet. The work traces how virtual experiences are created, both …

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Short&Sweet: Guelph Virtual Edition

Saturday, June 5th at 9:30pm (live event, not available for extended viewing)

Across Canada

Curated by Katie Ewald, Invented by Wants&Needs Danse Year of creation: 2021

Choreographed by fifteen artists from Ontario & Quebec

A performance party taking place on zoom, Short&Sweet follows these simple rules: 15 invited artists have carte blanche to create whatever they want… as long …

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Dance w Me Created by Zoja Smutny

Saturday, June 5th after Short&Sweet (live event, not available for extended viewing)

Special Feature! Directly after Short&Sweet

“Dance w Me was created out of the need to dance, and be, with people during the pandemic. This weekly dance show is intended to …

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Virtual Workshops

African Dance Workshop with Pulga Muchochoma

Saturday, June 5th at 9:30am (live event, not available for extended viewing)

Pulga Muchochoma teaches a fusion of Traditional African Dances and Afro Dance style from Mozambique, Angola, Ghana and South Africa and focuses on combining all …

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Embodied Experiential Awareness Workshop – WELCOME

Sunday, June 6th at 10:00am (live event, not available for extended viewing)

Join dance artist Meryem Alaoui in a 75 minute embodied experiential awareness workshop designed for you to move deeply into and within states of ease, …

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Opening Night

In the Virtual Park

On the Virtual Stage

In the Virtual Studio

Virtual Late Night

Virtual Workshops

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