TORONTO - The annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards says it's skipping its annual celebration of Toronto's past theatre season because of a dearth of live shows amid the pandemic.
Dora Awards skipping annual bash for performing arts due to curtailed season
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated May 19, 2021 at 1:45 pm EDT
TORONTO The annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards says it’s skipping its annual celebration of Toronto’s past theatre season because of a dearth of live shows amid the pandemic.
Organizers say Dora jurors have nothing to adjudicate after COVID-19 restrictions prevented live professional productions from being staged indoors in the past year.
The Doras celebrate excellence in theatre, dance and opera.
The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, which produces the Dora Awards, says the city’s professional theatre, dance, and opera organizations have lost more than $900 million in revenue since the start of the pandemic last March.
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Francesca Faridany, left, and David Greenspan in an off-Broadway production of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Orlando, which comes to RMTC mainstage in November.
You can say this about Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre artistic director Kelly Thornton: She is not afraid of Virginia Woolf.
You can say this about Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre artistic director Kelly Thornton: She is not afraid of Virginia Woolf.
A certain amount of fear is to be expected in the theatre world just now. So in announcing a new season, emerging from the long, dark shadow of the COVID pandemic, Thornton must answer the question: How do you balance being cautious and bold at the same time?
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In celebration of International Dance Day (April 29) we’re sharing this article from the Spring 2001 issue of Umbrella magazine, available now. Established in 1972, the Quinte Ballet School of Canada (QBSC) (formerly known as the Quinte Dance school and renamed in 1992) has had a storied history of faculty members, artistic advisors and, of course, graduates. These are just two of those stories.
Sonja Boretski, a Belleville local now based in Toronto, graduated from QBSC professional training program in 2013. She says her training expanded her: “In my first year a new artistic director, John Ottman, was coming in. He brought a whole new way of viewing dance using improvisation and experimentation with movement. I thought in a linear way of dance in terms of structure and this expanded my lens,” she says. “I learned that we can utilize techniques but ultimately it’s the indiv
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