Sunday, November 7, 2010

Choreographer Julia Aplin and Savoy Howe, Comedian-Turned Boxer and Founder of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, talk about the Urban Vessel World Premiere of Voice-Box, A Competitive Concert in a Boxing Ring showing Nov 10 - 13, 8pm and Nov 14, 2pm.  A genre-crossing, interactive performance that blows the lid off gender and power dynamics with cheekiness, raw talent and real fighting.  Brings together the sweet science of boxing and the power of the singing voice, defying assumptions about female aggression. www.urbanvessel.com  http://www.torontonewsgirls.com/tng_main/index.php

 
Belgium-based Choreographer Patricia Kuypers on her Series 808 Alternative Technique Class The Invisible Score Nov 15-18 10am - 2pm at Dovehouse Dance Ballroom, 805 Dovercourt Road, 2nd Floor.  Workshop open to professional dance artists and dance students in their final two years of a professional dance training program who have experience in Contact Improvisation and/or Dance Improvisation.  Kuypers teaches improvisation and has created numerous performances, in duets and trios all over Europe. She alse explores the contribution new technologies can make to dance. Kuypers is also the Founder of Contredanse and of the Magazine Nouvelles de danse.  http://www.series808.ca/ATCProgram.html