Bill Coleman

Event Description

Bill Coleman returns for an evening of improvised dance performance accompanied by local musicians!

Bill has danced with companies such as Toronto Dance Theatre and The Martha Graham Dance Company, and his own choreography has included, among many  others: “Zorro”, a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee; “Baryshnikov: The Other Story”,  recipient of the Jerome Foundation’s First Light Award in New York; “Convoy PQ-17”,  which debuted in St. Petersburg, Russia; “Heartland”, which inspired an award-winning  documentary; “Hymn to the Universe”, featuring the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra;  “Dollhouse” – nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards and shortlisted for the  Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Total Theatre Award; “FELT”, performed on a circular felt rug  handwoven in Mongolia; and, at the Shaw Festival, “Sunday in the Park with George” and  “The Women”. He’s currently working with Makka Kleist, Greenlandic actor and director,  as well as presenting “Le Flâneur”, a roaming tap dance performance. He has created site-specific events in collaboration with world-renowned artists and communities from  Saskatchewan to Mongolia, was co-founder of CLC and the Citadel, teaches at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, and has developed a methodology involving heightened sensory awareness and involuntary movement. Coleman is the recipient of the Canada  Council Jacqueline Lemieux Prize and the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the  Performing Arts.

Main stage in the Dawson restaurant