Discover Dance: Movers & Makers featuring Irma Villafuerte
5040 Yonge St - Greenwin Theatre
5040 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M2N 6R8, Canada
Ontario
43.7660922
-79.4143055
Description
Discover Dance is a FREE, all-ages, lunch hour series, where you will be introduced to some of Toronto’s incredible dance artists. Hosted by Nova Dance, Discover Dance is an hour filled with dance, discoveries, and connection. You will have the opportunity to see dance and share your thoughts; to hear stories and ask questions; and to discover how dance forms from near and far are being woven in Toronto’s cultural scene.
Irma Villafuerte is a Tkaronto based dance artist, educator, emerging choreographer and first-generation daughter of refugees from Nahuat Territory Kuskatan, post-colonial El Salvador. She is a Toronto Arts Foundation 2021 Emerging Artist Finalist. She’s had the honor to be part of festivals such as Night Shift 2020 Presented by the Citadel & Compagnie, Fall for Dance North’s Open Studio, The Rhubarb Festival, DanceWeekend Ontario, Aluna Theatre’s Panamerican Routes Festival, Panamania 2015, 12th Bienal de la Habana 2015, Vanguardia Dance Projects Festival, International Dance Meeting in Guantanamo, CounterPulse Performing Diaspora in San Francisco, etc. She’s been part of works by Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Jaberi Dance Theatre, Kaeja d’Dance, Victoria Mata, Aria Evans, Alejandro Ronceria, Arsenio Andrade and Michael Caldwell. Since 2017, she has led a journey nurturing her choreographic development through residencies with Dance Makers, TDT’s Emerging Voices, George Brown Dance and Aluna Theatre; currently developing two important works nudoDESnudo and Siwat Piedra. As a Latin American woman, her passion for social justice and human rights is the driving force for creation in Irma’s choreographic and performance work. She is a dance instructor at Casa Maiz’ Semillas Latinas program for Latin American children; in 2019, she joined the faculty of the Theatre Department at Randolph College for the Performing Arts.
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Start:
2023-12-12T12:00:00-05:00
End:
2023-12-12T13:00:00-05:00
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