Black & Rural is an artistic inquiry into the hearts and minds of Black folks tucked away on Canada’s countryside. Project lead, Shayna Jones, aims to seek out, honour, and showcase stories from rurally based Blacks (like herself) to nuance and challenge the monolith of what matters to Black Lives. Created and performed by Shayna Jones and produced by Pi Theatre, Black & Rural weaves spoken word, movement, music, and verbatim theatre together in a spellbinding performance that is resonating across the country. www.blackandrural.com

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Black & Rural

Tarragon Theatre

The dance Immersion Showcase Presentation is back!
For the dance Immersion 2024 National Showcase of Canadian Blacks in Dance, we are bringing you the works of artists of different generations from Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, Ottawa, and Toronto.

The 2024 Showcase highlights the diversity of interdisciplinary African Diasporic expressions from across the country. 

2024 National Showcase

Harbourfront Centre

Close out our 30th anniversary season with us at our Jam Session that includes remarkable dancers and a live band weaving together sights and sounds of popular African Diasporic music/dance. Rosie Harbans, Travis Knights, Shelly Ann McLeod, Jamari “Rhino” Whittaker, and Musical Director Donny Milwalkee and his band are bringing Krump, Jazz, Caribbean Folk, and Tap together on one stage for this unforgettable event.

Jam Session

High Park

– Closest major intersection Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue. Located on west side of Yonge Street on the north side of Mel Lastman Square beside the North York Civic Centre.

30th Anniversary Community Dinner!

North York Central Library

Expand your choreographic practice by learning movement composition processes and devices from internationally-renowned American artist, Germaul Barnes, and dance Immersion founder, Vivine Scarlett.

30th Anniversary Workshop Series

Steps Dance Studio

dance Immersion presents CinnaMoon Collective’s “Surrendered Spirits” on a double-bill with Pulga Muchochoma’s “MÀSCARA”!

This premiere contemporary dance event features performances by Nickeshia Garrick, Irma Villafuerte, Viktor Kei, Paula Sofia, Pulga Muchochoma, and Kobèna Aquaa-Harrison. 

Double Bill Presentation

Canadian Stage (Berkeley Street Theatre)

Join CinnaMoon Collective for contemporary movement workshops designed to help you expand your unique voice through dance.

Nickeshia Garrick & Irma Villafuerte are offering two youth-centred workshops and two adult-centred workshops for a pay-what-you-can fee.

Movement Workshops with CinnaMoon Collective

Dovercourt House

The seminars provide essential information and refreshers to move your career forward, while the unique movement and music workshops will give your practice a boost!

Connectively Moving Dance Career Workshops

Canada's National Ballet School

Fernando Anuang’a is an autodidact artist (self-taught dancer/choreographer) from Kenya. He is supported and inspired by Kenyan Maasaï songs, his ancestral memories, and his community’s vocal rhythmic power for his vocabulary. He is driven by a will to take tradition into the future, and continuously researches ways for Maasaï dance to live fully in this era. While tourists have exploited the image of the Maasaï jump tradition, Fernando’s practice instead infuses this cultural vertical energy with evolving Maasaï undulation gestures. For his third solo, TRADITIONAL FUTURE, he stays loyal to the Moran (Maasaï warrior) tradition as a symbolic root, while finding a deeper energy and more liberating form of self-expression to bring the tradition into the future.

Dance Immersion

20 - 22 Nov, 2024

Black & Rural

20 - 22 Nov, 2024

Black & Rural

5 - 6 Oct, 2024

2024 National Showcase

Dance Immersion