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The 21st Dusk Dances Festival returns to Withrow Park this summer with another week of exciting and entertaining dance works from Canada’s finest dance makers!
HOSTED BY BRAD BRACKENRIDGE
OPENING BAND GUARACHA Y SON with free Salsa classes from master teacher MIKO SOBREIRA

RECUERDOS (TARANTO) ESMERALDA ENRIQUE SPANISH DANCE COMPANY
CHOREOGRAPHED BY ESMERALDA ENRIQUE
Performed by: Esmeralda Enrique (dancer), Michael Kavanagh (guitarist), and Tamar Ilana (singer)
Recuerdos speaks of the strength and fluidity of our memories. But the cycle of life repeats itself and memories reoccur, if not in our lifetime then in the generation that follows. In this way, history gives us a chance at redemption, a journey that can be heartbreaking or rewarding, a journey of discovery.
Premieres this year at Dusk Dances.MURMURE DE FEMME / WOMAN’S WHISPER LUA

SHAYENNE AND COMPANY
CHOREOGRAPHED BY LUA SHAYENNE
Performed by: Kassi Scott, Shireen Ali, Miranda Liverpool, Natasha Phanor, Lua Shayenne
Drummers: Walter Maclean and Yohan Francis
Murmure de femme | Woman’s Whisper is an ode to femininity
“Born to bear the weight of ceaseless adversities
I am she
Stalled in cyclic time
I remain – a woman
Rest your back against mine
Learn the rhythm of my breath
Listen carefully to every pulse in my veins
Memorize the cadence of my heart
In the flux of tempo and beats
We rise as one soul”

Lua Shayenne
Premieres this year at Dusk Dances.
BELLA DANNY GROSSMAN DANCE COMPANY
CHOREOGRAPHED BY DANNY GROSSMAN
Performed by: Michael Caldwell and Meredith Thompson.
Bella was inspired by the opera music of Puccini.
In 1977, with the Puccini music and a mutual love of Marc Chagall’s paintings, Danny Grossman and Judy Jarvis set out to make a duet for themselves on top of, under and around a table. When Mary Kerr arrived to design the sets and costumes, she took her inspiration from the Chagall images they had been using and created a beautiful painted
horse as the centerpiece for this charming love duet.
First premiered at Dusk Dances 2007.

PHOTURIS VERSICOLOR CHOREOGRAPHED BY SYLVIE BOUCHARD AND MARIE-JOSÉE CHARTIER
Performed by: Sylvie Bouchard and Marie-Josée Chartier
Photinus appearance by: Michael Caldwell
Live insect-o-sonics: Philip Strong
Twin fireflies get separated at birth. After a journey apart, they find each other again, in a cluster of trees, at Withrow Park. See how they grow to become Photuris Versicolor, or as they like to call themselves, "femmes fatales!"
Premieres this year at Dusk Dances.