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Discover Dance with Irma Villafuerte (Uptown at Meridian Arts Centre)

Meridian Arts Centre - Greenwin Theatre

5040 Yonge St, North York, ON M2N 6R8, Canada Ontario

43.7660922 -79.4143055

TO Live

Description

TO Live and Nova Dance present DISCOVER DANCE with Irma Villafuerte Discover Dance is a free, all-ages, lunch hour series introducing many of Toronto’s incredible dance artists. Discover, in a warm and intimate setting, diverse dance forms woven into Toronto’s vibrant cultural scene. Hosted by Dainty Smith, Discover Dance is an hour packed with dance and conversation. As of March 21st, TO Live ensures masks and hand sanitizer are readily available. To protect the health of immunocompromised attendees, we recommend that you wear a mask throughout the duration of the event. Tuesday, August 16, 12:00PM-1:00PM This event is on-site and will not be streamed. Join us in-person as we welcome you back to MERIDIAN ARTS CENTRE! Registration is FREE. About the Artist: 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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