It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 illuminates the largely undocumented dance history of Canada’s Black population before 1970. Featured are individual performing artists such as Leonard Gibson, Ola Skanks, Ethel Bruneau and Joey Hollingsworth. The exhibit exposes the representation of Blackness on Canadian stages by non-black artists through blackface, as well as audience and media reception of Black performance in Canada during this era. It’s About Time explores legislation and leisure culture, dance lessons and the role of social dances at mid-century.
It’s About Time was first commissioned by Dance Collection Danse Archives and Gallery and opened in January of 2018. From June-August 2018, it was at OCAD’s Ignite Gallery. In 2019, SummerWorks Performance Festival has invited the exhibition as part of Progress.
Exhibition Curated by Seika Boye
Free entry.
Open daily January 30 – February 15 from 12:00pm - 7:30pm, excluding Sundays
Venue: The Theatre Centre, Upstairs Gallery, 1115 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Special events:
Jan 31, 6:00pm: Opening & Curator Tour
Feb 5, 6:00pm: Curator Tour
Progress, an international festival of performance and ideas, is collectively curated and presented by a rotating series of Canadian organizations, operating within a contemporary performance context. The fourth edition of the Festival is curated by FADO Performance Art Centre, Festival of Recorded Movement, SummerWorks Performance Festival, Native Earth Performing Arts, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, the red light district, The Theatre Centre, Uma Nota Culture and Why Not Theatre.
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