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Fasten Your Seatbelts and Travel First-Class
with a New Season of World Stage
Harbourfront Centre Circled the Globe
to Find Inspired Works from Nine Countries, With Three World Premieres,
One North American Premiere and One Canadian Premiere (Complete
Season Schedule included in this Release)
TORONTO – Harbourfront Centre is proud to announce the exhilarating
new season of World Stage 2008/09. Sixteen inspired works succeed
a luminous World Stage 2008 (January to May) that included celebrated
productions such as the Dora Award winning Chapel/Chapter from Bill
T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company for Outstanding Production, Dance
Division. World Stage 2008/09 delivers another series of ground-breaking,
infectious and thought provoking performances from a hand-picked
selection of the finest international and Canadian companies.
Individual tickets for World Stage performances range from $15-40
with specially priced packages available. Tickets for all performances
are on sale Tuesday, September 2, through the Harbourfront Centre
box office by phone at 416-973-4000 or through
www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Harbourfront Centre’s dedication to providing audiences with unrivalled
works of theatre, dance, music and multi-media has made World Stage
the epicentre of Toronto’s contemporary performing arts development.
For the 2008/09 season that spans October to May, audiences can
expect new works that challenge, enlighten and push the boundaries
of performance, while remaining accessible and engaging.
World Stage takes flight October 16-18 with an exclusive Canadian
performance co-presented with DanceWorks from the internationally
renowned Kitt Johnson X-act (Denmark). She returns to Harbourfront
Centre for the first time in four years with Rankefod, a compelling
new dance solo that explores the body’s evolutionary memory through
astounding choreography.
Concurrently, from October 17-19, the Spaghetti Western Orchestra
(Australia) makes their Toronto debut with authentic musical renderings
of Ennio Morricone film score classics utilizing over 100 instruments.
World Stage 2008/09 features three works that are a part of Québec
Now!, a celebration of contemporary Québec arts and culture in Toronto,
from September through December. Two of these run in November with
Dave St-Pierre’s La Pornographie des âmes, the internationally acclaimed
powerhouse dance performance that explores seductive, graphic and
provocative themes, as well as the world premiere of Hospitality
3:
Individualism was a Mistake, a collaborative work from Jacob Wren
and PME-ART that combines dance, theatre and an indie rock spirit.
Also in November, Vancouver’s Kidd Pivot bring the remarkable Lost
Action to World Stage; choreographer Crystal Pite’s staggering new
work of physical achievement with seven dancers explores the threshold
of what the human body can accomplish.
In December, the third instalment of Québec Now! features the English
speaking premiere of The Invisible, a complex theatrical blend of
sound and visualization from Marie Brassard, one of Canada’s most
captivating contemporary performers.
After a brief hiatus, World Stage 2008/09 returns February 4-7 with
the Fresh Ground new works world premiere of Dance Marathon from
bluemouth inc., a duration-based performance event inspired by the
physically gruelling spectator sport of Depression-era North America.
A strong February continues as Pleiades Theatre brings the theatrical
masterpiece and epic love story Shakuntula, from the 5th century
Indian playwright Kalidasa, to a Toronto stage for the first time.
The international triumph Tshepang from South African Lara Foot-Newton
is a haunting and uplifting masterpiece of redemption, and also
in February the celebrated Tim Etchells brings That Night Follows
Day, a play with child actors but written for adults, featuring
16 children between 8 and 14 years of age.
In March, playwright and actress Rebecca Northan turns to an audience
member for her saucy Blind Date, a cabaret-style performance piece,
and Brazil’s most popular dance troupe Grupo Corpo return with their
trademark intensity and two masterful works: Breu and Eight Pieces
for a Ballet.
Part of Images Festival 2009 in April, Lebanese actor, director
and playwright Rabih Mroué travels through a history and landscape
of Lebanon, presenting a personal archive of various materials to
investigate how we remember and understand events and occurrences
from the past in Make Me Stop
Smoking: A Presentation of Ideas Under Study. The world premiere
of AfterImage from Newfoundland’s Artistic Fraud also lands in April
and centres around a family created and devastated by an accidental
electrocution and unexpected adoption, part of Fresh Ground new
works.
The month of May belongs to the Stan’s Cafe (UK) as they close World
Stage 2008/09 with the startling and evocative theatrical presentation
The Cleansing of Constance Brown and the mind-boggling installation
Of All The People In All The World, that uses grains of rice to
represent various human statistics.
For information on all performances please visit
www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage
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