TANYA TAGAQ and LAAKULUK WILLIAMSON BATHORY
WHEN:
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 7 pm
WHERE:
Berkeley Theatre Downstairs, Canadian Stage
REDTalks features experimental throat-singer Tanya Tagaq and performer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory for a dialogue on Inuit arts and culture in Canada and Greenland.
DUKE REDBIRD AND THE RED POWER MOVEMENT
WHEN:
Monday, March 17, 2014 at 7 pm
WHERE:
The Drake Hotel
1150 Queen Street West, Toronto
RED Talks presented an evening with Duke Redbird and the Red Power Movement, a highly mobilized and vibrant initiative that highlighted issues through social protest in the 1960's and 70's. Poet, scholar, storyteller and television personality Duke Redbird is a member of the Saugeen First Nation and Ontario College of Art & Design's (OCAD) first Aboriginal Advisor/Mentor. He is the author of a collection of poetry and has been published in numerous anthologies in Canada and the United States.
JOCK SOTO and WATER FLOWING TOGETHER
WHEN:
April 5, 2013 at 5:00 pm
WHERE:
Camera Lounge
1026 Queen Street West (at Ossington)
Toronto
REDTalks featured Jock Soto and Water Flowing Together, a compelling, intimate portrait of one of the most recognized and influential modern ballet dancers in the world.
Of Navajo heritage, Soto was just 16 when George Balanchine selected him to join the New York City Ballet where he eventually became the most choreographed dancer in the company's history. Soto danced featured roles by George Balanchine, Peter Martins, Jerome Robbins and Christopher Weldon that had often been created for him.
While Jock Soto is an artist who found his medium of expression in dance, the film explores more than Soto's career- it is as much about the complexities of the man, about heritage, identity and transition.
"Ballet is a man called Jock." ~ The New York Times
Water Flowing Together, a film by Gwendolen Cates.
Jock Soto in attendance
EVERY STEP YOU TAKE
WHEN:
Thursday April 4, 2013 at 6:30 pm
WHERE:
Toronto Room, Verity Club
111d Queen Street East (in between Church and Jarvis)
Toronto
Red Sky presented an evening with acclaimed dancer Jock Soto who read from his intimate memoir Every Step You Take. Jock Soto was just 16 when George Balanchine selected him to join the New York City Ballet company where he eventually became the most choreographed dancer in the company's history.
A principal dancer, his 24-year career included featured roles in over 40 ballets that were created for him by Peter Martins, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon and Lynne Taylor-Corbett.
He read from his memoir and joined Artistic Director Sandra Laronde in an up close and personal conversation.
A book signing followed the event.
EVENING WITH LATIN GRAMMY WINNER ALEX CUBA AND DANCE EXCERPT JAVIER DZUL
WHEN:
Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 8:00pm
WHERE:
TIFF Lightbox, Bell Blue Room
350 King Street West, Toronto
REDTalks presented a special evening with Latin Grammy Award winning musician Alex Cuba and New York City-based dancer and choreographer Javier Dzul.
ALEX CUBA: With a heart as big as his retro 'fro', Alex Cuba's trademark sugarcane-sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and rock chords cut through cultural barriers like a machete through sugarcane. He won a Latin Grammy Award in 2010 for Best New Artist and was nominated for Best Latin Pop album at the 2011 Grammy Awards. Listen to the music of Alex Cuba.
JAVIER DZUL: New York City-based Javier Dzul fuses Indigenous pre-Hispanic ritual and mythology in dance with the undulant muscularity of a jaguar.
Mix & mingle at 6pm, light refreshments