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C A N N O P Y

Art is True North

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12.88 | Jacob's Pillow

Pamela Tatge on learning from a problematic past and building an inclusive future

13.10 | 4W | Stratford 2024

INTERVIEW — Director Donna Feore serves up Something Rotten!

15.03 | Anora

Contextualizing Sean Baker’s latest film within cinema’s history of sex-positive self-actualizing female leads

14.15 | If | Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

INTERVIEW — A complicated portrait of William Kentridge plays out in this 9-part series presented by MUBI

14.22 | 4w | NAC Indigenous Theatre

INTERVIEW — Artistic Director Kevin Loring weighs in on performative land acknowledgements

13.11 | If | DECA: Wayne Burns

INTERVIEW — With the recent releases of fastLOVE and Longing, the Canadian actor looks back on the films that helped shape his appetite for cinema

12.47 | Oriah Wiersma

What does support for independent Canadian contemporary dance really look like?

14.20 | Im | Toronto Dance Theatre

“If the people can’t come to you—perhaps because they don’t know you exist—then it’s imperative that you go to the people.”

14.43 | If | Maria

“Maria follows in the footpath of its thematic predecessors─but backwards, in heels, and with great music”

smART x Stratford Pt.3: Casey and Diana

A theatrical exercise in compassion that represents the very best of Stratford 2023

Chet Tilokani

“My role also has a caveat of staying out of the way of the story as much as possible.”

ON THE SET: Women Talking

Actor Sheila McCarthy on the Oscar-nominated film’s work culture

Meet the Producers: Alice, Darling

“We wanted to show that things don’t have to be physical for it to be bad enough to leave”

Toby Olié

How the British puppeteer is redefining the creative potential of the art form.

On the Opening of Little Island

PigPen Ayodele Casel

LeTitle

An Emerging Dance Community in Seoul

Soulpepper Theatre Celebrates 25 Years

2022/23 Season Puts Canadian Women Front and Center on Toronto’s Premier Stage.

Is Ballet Racist?

Throughout the years, ballet has evolved—but how much exactly?

Antoine Hunter’s Urban Jazz Dance Company

“We are the music that we see”

Fehinti Balogun

In conversation with the actor, playwright, poet, and the creator of Can I Live?

In Focus: Xavier Dolan

The celebrated Canadian film director makes his TV debut with The Night Logan Woke Up

Ashley Wheater

Artistic Director of the Joffrey Ballet

Magical Bones

Celebrating Black Magic

Guillaume Côté

Guillaume Côté X Lighthouse Immersive

smART x Stratford Pt.1: "King Lear"

Paul Gross delivers a Lear of a lifetime

In Focus

In Focus

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Contextualizing Sean Baker’s latest film within cinema’s history of sex-positive self-actualizing female leads

Profile: Anora

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“My role also has a caveat of staying out of the way of the story as much as possible.”

Chet Tilokani

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“Imagine the story of the sailor’s flight as a subjective, visceral, slow-motion ballet”

The Flying Sailor

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INTERVIEW — A complicated portrait of William Kentridge plays out in this 9-part series presented by MUBI

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

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Actor Sheila McCarthy on the Oscar-nominated film’s work culture

ON THE SET: Women Talking

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“Everybody’s working from a place of desperation”

The Last of Us: Natasha Mumba

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INTERVIEW — With the recent releases of fastLOVE and Longing, the Canadian actor looks back on the films that helped shape his appetite for cinema

Wayne Burns’s Top 10 Canadian Films

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“We wanted to show that things don’t have to be physical for it to be bad enough to leave”

Meet the Producers: Alice, Darling

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“Maria follows in the footpath of its thematic predecessors─but backwards, in heels, and with great music”

Pablo Larraín’s "Maria"

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The celebrated Canadian film director makes his TV debut with The Night Logan Woke Up

In Focus: Xavier Dolan

In Motion

In Motion

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Jacob’s Pillow

Pamela Tatge on learning from a problematic past and building an inclusive future

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Is Ballet Racist?

Throughout the years, ballet has evolved—but how much exactly?

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7 Podcasts for the Dancer in You

Seven Dance Podcasts You Need to Tune Into

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Oriah Wiersma

What does support for independent Canadian contemporary dance really look like?

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Antoine Hunter’s Urban Jazz Dance Company

“We are the music that we see”

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Mother Sorrow: A Work in Progress

From blueprints to footprints on stage, a contemporary dance project unfolds

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Toronto Dance Theatre

“If the people can’t come to you—perhaps because they don’t know you exist—then it’s imperative that you go to the people.”

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Ashley Wheater

Artistic Director of the Joffrey Ballet

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Immersive Dance Experiments

Meet Three Companies Leading the Immersive Dance Revolution

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LeTitle

An Emerging Dance Community in Seoul

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Presenting Touch

Guillaume Côté X Lighthouse Immersive

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Ragamala Dance Company

How a mother-daughter duo is bringing classical South Indian Dance to the global stage

Fourth Wall

Fourth Wall

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Stratford Festival 2024: A World Elsewhere

INTERVIEW — Director Donna Feore serves up Something Rotten!

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On the Opening of Little Island

PigPen Ayodele Casel

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smART x Stratford Pt.1: "King Lear"

Paul Gross delivers a Lear of a lifetime

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Indigenous Theatre at the NAC Turns 5

INTERVIEW — Artistic Director Kevin Loring weighs in on performative land acknowledgements

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Soulpepper Theatre Celebrates 25 Years

2022/23 Season Puts Canadian Women Front and Center on Toronto’s Premier Stage.

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smART x Stratford Pt.2: Monty Python’s Spamalot

An absurdly funny, absurdly fun, tsunami of laughs

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Casey and Diana

A theatrical exercise in compassion that represents the very best of Stratford 2023

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Fehinti Balogun Presents Can I Live?

In conversation with the actor, playwright, poet, and the creator of Can I Live?

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A Walk With Amal

Meet “Little” Amal, the 3.5 metre puppet and beating heart of The Walk.

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Puppet Master: Toby Olié

How the British puppeteer is redefining the creative potential of the art form.

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Magical Bones

Celebrating Black Magic

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