Productions
Combatting fatphobia and disordered eating stigmas, this film is not to be missed.
A collection of all of 2023’s Small Curiosities – digital commissions that supports artists in trying something new in a small scope.
After a tragedy involving his best friend, a college freshman returns to his hometown. Remembering the past as next door neighbours, he searches for the courage to connect to his friend’s grieving parents.
Join us for the public presentation of our 2023 Neighbourhood Series concert, INSPIRATION CREATION!
Sore knees is a short film by Allison Ference, exploring the complexity of stepping into self-inflicted grief in the pursuit of self-discovery.
Inner Existence is a dance film by Liv Arcangeli that explores the energetic body and how it affects us on an internal and external level.
This experimental dance film follows a guarded version of the artist, diving into surreal dreamscapes to revisit friendship, fear, and desire – all wrapped up in hurt and angst.
After premiering live at the Apollo Cinema, you can now stream these two exciting new dance films online: Sh*thead by Kaelin Isserlin and Inner Existence by Liv Arcangeli
COLLIDE is a 5 minute dance film created by Kaleigh Murphy.
Two stars and their fleeting moment of true connection before their inevitable collision, explosion, and demise.
COLLIDE is a dance of connection that exposes the difficulty of overcoming isolation.
A short documentary series about our 2022 Neighbourhood Series concert at the Waterloo Region Hospice.
Femme+ is a 10 minute short film created by Rhiannon Hoover that uses journal entries, dance, and drag to explore the depths of gender identity.
IF YOU’RE LISTENING… HERE IT IS is a story of success and accountability. It follows Liz Kelly, a veteran of the Canadian stage, as she contemplates abandoning the theatre after a multi-year period of unemployment leaves her questioning the value of her work and reckoning with unresolved troubles from her past.
Feeling like a failure and falling deeper and deeper into depression, Quinn tries to answer the question:
When your entire identity and career depend on a relationship, who are you when it ends?
Tides Across My Heart is a brief moment to ground in something pleasantly unexplainable.
Join Sunny as he goes live with what might be his final video for his loyal followers, summoning the spirit of his Rihanna YouTube persona when he needs her most.
Featured Music:
Come Away Death by Gerald Finzi
Rain Has Fallen by Samuel Barber
Christ, Of All My Hopes, The Ground by Douglas Haas
Sure On This Shining Night by Samuel Barber
I roll over to find I can no longer tell the difference between your head and the pillow, my heartbeat and the ticking of the clock.
Kitchen. Coffee. Table. Mug.
I look down to find my hands have melded to this cup, and the backs of your legs have been welded to that chair.
I just remembered I forgot, there used to be movement here.
Movement then, stillness now. Difference there, nothing here.
An expansion of The Coin Toss, a four minute work crafted out of riskful first instincts and performed in 2017 at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. The belief that these instincts are the elements which allow human consciousness to uncover new discoveries is further explored through The Hidden Revealed.
Jamie has always been the guy that falls too hard, too fast. So when he meets Alice, he thinks he has found his future wife. The only problem is, Alice doesn’t see it that way. So Jamie does what any other guy would do in this situation: Jamie tries again. And again. And again. Like all romantic leads before him, Jamie will keep trying until Alice is with him forever.