Sunday, August 8, 2010

Hiroshi Miyamoto, Co-choreographer/Dancer with Navtej Johar on the inDance presentation of Mango Cherry Mix, an interracial duet between Asian men, a Japanese and an Indian. Miyamoto is co-founder of Green Tea, a Japanese dancers' collective. Shows August 14-15 8pm at Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street.

 

Performance Artist Freya Olafson on her production of AVATAR taking place in the Summerworks Theatre festival which runs August 5-15. Olafson blends classical training in the Professional Program of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet with video theory studies she took at the University of Manitoba School of Art. She weaves fragmented images of her personal life with distorted and satirical views of a female video blogger with body image issues and insecurieties. Opens Thurs August 5 at The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West (at Dovercourt).  www.freyaolafson.com