DANCE SPOTS
Mix and match: Toronto Dance Theatre is revisiting its roots in a show, Rare
Mix, that highlights three of the elements that make this small modern dance company, founded in 1968, a force to be reckoned with nationally and internationally.
Going right back to year one, the company will re-mount Patricia Beatty’s Against Sleep, which hasn’t been performed since 1998.
Artistic director Christopher House took over in 1994 and, as artistic direc- tor, led the company in new, often postmodernist, directions. His contribution to Rare Mix is Vena Cava, a work from 1999 that showed him branching out from short, compact works.
Jean Sébastien Lourdais’s Étrange, the third work on the Rare Mix bill, comes from Quebec.
Five performances run Nov. 6 to 10 at the Fleck Dance Theatre. 416-973-4000 or harbourfrontcentre.com.
On the edge: A small contemporary company with a European pedigree,
ProArteDanza presents its ninth season with some of its tried-and-true productions of the past, including Decorum (2005), a stunning pas de deux performed by Kristen Dennis and Tyler Gledhill.
For a sure-to-be dazzled experience, ProArteDanza can be seen at the Fleck Dance Theatre at the Harbourfront Centre in four performances from Oct. 3 to 6. Phone 416-973-4000 or go to harbourfrontcentre.com. — Susan Walker