Caminos 2017 offers cabarets and Polaris Prize winner
Caminos 2017 Watch this if: You want boundarybreaking new work and a Polaris Prize winner.
The second edition of the biannual Caminos festival is coming to Daniels Spectrum this week, a collaboration between Aluna Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts to showcase works-in-development by Toronto Pan-American, Indigenous and Latinx artists. The intersection of performance genres and personalities in this year’s lineup — including names like Rosa Laborde, Augusto Bitter, Jivesh Parasram, Beatriz Pizano, Martha Chaves and Polaris Prize winner Lido Pimienta in a show described as a “live graphic novel performance” — are complemented by panels and cabarets.
Oct. 4-8, Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St. E. Flashing Lights Watch this if: You’re still waiting for your 15 minutes.
Ahuri Theatre had one of the biggest hits at last year’s Dora Awards with This Is the Point, and Bad New Days is an always exciting theatre company based in the physical style of French actor and mime Jacques Lecoq. Flashing Lights is a promising co-production from these two companies, about a father who goes viral and is forever changed by his brief surge in internet fame, as are his wife and child. As it uses phones and tablets in innovative ways onstage, maybe audience members will be less inclined to check their own.
Oct. 7-22, Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St. W. Fall for Dance North Watch this if: You’re putting the squeeze on your entertainment budget.
The Fall for Dance North festival is back as the best bang-for-your-buck deal, with individual tickets for each night of programming only $15 (or all three for $60). And Fall for Dance North does not disappoint with its lineups, this year’s including work by ballet choreographer Robert Binet, Mix Mix Dance Collective, Citadel + Compagnie, BJM — Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, and a 72-person edition of the postmodern dance piece Ball Passing. The largest version of the piece since it premiered in 1980, Ball Passing closes each night of the festival with a communal performance from non-professional dancers from across the city. We’d fall for that.
Oct. 4-6, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E.