Program 2 showcases three memorable solos by emerging choreographer/dancer Naishi Wang; Halifax-based choreographer/dancer Lydia Zimmer; and contemporary dance icon Peggy Baker, in a poignant work of text and motion.
Home to the only summer contemporary dance festival in Nova Scotia, Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal – FODAR is ranked as one of the major dance festivals in the country. Back for its Fifth Season, the festival showcases the best and the current in contemporary dance performed by some of this country’s most celebrated dancers. Each season FODAR also remounts a landmark production from Canada’s rich modern dance legacy. The festival opens August 13 with Dance on Film Night. Four days of spectacular dance on stage follow with Program 1 and Program 2 on alternating nights.
PROGRAM 2
Thursday, August 15. 8:00 pm & Saturday, August 17. 8:00 pm
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- Peggy Baker Dance Projects (Toronto)
- Performed by Peggy Baker
- Choreography by Sara Chase
“In 2003 I turned to the dance artist Sarah Chase to make a work for me. Sarah creates in a genre she describes as dancestories, and preliminary to working together she set me the task of writing two stories for every year of my life… Sarah and I worked together to distill my writing as a dancestory titled unmoored. The episodes I recount in unmoored describe events during the 20-year arc of my marriage to the musician, composer, and disability rights activist, Ahmed Hassan.” Peggy Baker
“Peggy is a true dance bohemian: she knows how to play up against contemporary orthodoxy and turn it on its head. It’s why she is a great artist…There is always method in what she does, but what she does is always unexpected and always a joy to watch…” Mikhail Baryshnikov
Taking Breath
Created and performed by Naishi Wang (Toronto)
Born in Changchun, China, Naishi Wang began his dance training at Jilin College of Art and Beijing Dance Academy. Performing with Toronto Dance Theatre for 9 years Naishi is now creating his own works. Taking Breath explores how we take breathing and the air we breathe, for granted. What is it like without breathing? How does breathing affect our movement, our thoughts? When does breathing start to mean something? When will air start to matter to us?
Sonderling
Created and Performed by Lydia Zimmer (Halifax)
Moving between Toronto and Halifax, Lydia Zimmer is emerging as an unorthodox dancer and audacious choreographer. In Sonderling she has created a geometric and dark work inspired by an Irish rhyme from the 1700s. This absorbing piece explores eccentricity and letting the dark side out. “When does the methodical and organized become a form of derangement? How do our actions accumulate over a lifetime?”
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
- Regular: $25
- Youth: $12
- Program 1 and 2 Package: $44 (if purchasing package online, please note requested show dates)
Click here to see a PDF of the Seating plan.
Doors open 45 minutes before the show.
Online ticket sales for this event are closed.
Program 1 showcases the dynamic and athletic Throwdown Collective; a modern dance classic– Mr. Pinhead with an all-Nova Scotian cast; and an excerpt from the traditional/contemporary indigenous dance work, Sky Dancers: Bridges.
Home to the only summer contemporary dance festival in Nova Scotia, Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal – FODAR is ranked as one of the major dance festivals in the country. Back for its Fifth Season, the festival showcases the best and the current in contemporary dance performed by some of this country’s most celebrated dancers. Each season FODAR also remounts a landmark production from Canada’s rich modern dance legacy. The festival opens August 13 with Dance on Film Night. Four days of spectacular dance on stage follow with Program 1 and Program 2 on alternating nights.
PROGRAM 1
Wednesday, August 14. 8:00 pm & Friday, August 16. 8:00 pm
Sky Dancers: Bridges – Excerpt
Created by Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo (Choreographer) and Michael Diabo (Composer.
Performed by Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo (Montreal)
In 1907 when the Quebec Bridge collapsed during construction, 33 Mohawk ironworkers from the small reserve of Kahnawake fell to their deaths. This contemporary dance piece combines traditional and contemporary Indigenous dance and music to bring this story to life.
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Throwdown Collective (Toronto)
Created and performed by Zhenya Cerneacov, Mairéad Filgate and Brodie Stevenson
Throwdown Collective has been creating contemporary physically dynamic work for both stage and en plein air since 2008. This includes three site-specific commissions for Toronto’s Dusk Dances which played across Canada and at Jacob’s Pillow’s 85th Anniversary Celebration. Various Concert, their first work for the stage, garnered the 2015 dance: made in canada Audience Choice Award and the 2016 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Original Choreography.
Mr. Pinhead
Created by Randy Glynn performed by a Nova Scotia cast
Choreographer, dancer and teacher, Randy Glynn has been an influential figure in the world of Canadian contemporary dance for over three decades. He is currently Artistic Director of Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal and Live Art Dance (Halifax).
Premiered in 1995, Mr. Pinhead is built entirely on ballroom dance vocabulary. It is the coming-of-age story of a timid young ballroom dancer, his overbearing parents and his triumphant escape from their grasp. Acclaimed by audiences and critics for its innovation and entertaining approach to its subject matter, Mr. Pinhead’s themes still resonate today.
“You will be amazed by Glynn’s vision and feeling, his ability to dignify and deepen ordinary experience.” The Globe and Mail
TICKETS on sale now
- Regular: $25
- Youth: $12
- Program 1 and 2 Package: $44 (if purchasing package online, please note requested show dates)
Click here to see a PDF of the Seating plan.
Doors open 45 minutes before the show.
Online ticket sales for this event are closed.
Program 2 showcases three memorable solos by emerging choreographer/dancer Naishi Wang; Halifax-based choreographer/dancer Lydia Zimmer; and contemporary dance icon Peggy Baker, in a poignant work of text and motion.
Home to the only summer contemporary dance festival in Nova Scotia, Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal – FODAR is ranked as one of the major dance festivals in the country. Back for its Fifth Season, the festival showcases the best and the current in contemporary dance performed by some of this country’s most celebrated dancers. Each season FODAR also remounts a landmark production from Canada’s rich modern dance legacy. The festival opens August 13 with Dance on Film Night. Four days of spectacular dance on stage follow with Program 1 and Program 2 on alternating nights.
unmoored
- Peggy Baker Dance Projects (Toronto)
- Performed by Peggy Baker
- Choreography by Sara Chase
“In 2003 I turned to the dance artist Sarah Chase to make a work for me. Sarah creates in a genre she describes as dancestories, and preliminary to working together she set me the task of writing two stories for every year of my life… Sarah and I worked together to distill my writing as a dancestory titled unmoored. The episodes I recount in unmoored describe events during the 20-year arc of my marriage to the musician, composer, and disability rights activist, Ahmed Hassan.” Peggy Baker
“Peggy is a true dance bohemian: she knows how to play up against contemporary orthodoxy and turn it on its head. It’s why she is a great artist…There is always method in what she does, but what she does is always unexpected and always a joy to watch…” Mikhail Baryshnikov
Taking Breath
Created and performed by Naishi Wang (Toronto)
Born in Changchun, China, Naishi Wang began his dance training at Jilin College of Art and Beijing Dance Academy. Performing with Toronto Dance Theatre for 9 years Naishi is now creating his own works. Taking Breath explores how we take breathing and the air we breathe, for granted. What is it like without breathing? How does breathing affect our movement, our thoughts? When does breathing start to mean something? When will air start to matter to us?
Sonderling
Created and Performed by Lydia Zimmer (Halifax)
Moving between Toronto and Halifax, Lydia Zimmer is emerging as an unorthodox dancer and audacious choreographer. In Sonderling she has created a geometric and dark work inspired by an Irish rhyme from the 1700s. This absorbing piece explores eccentricity and letting the dark side out. “When does the methodical and organized become a form of derangement? How do our actions accumulate over a lifetime?”
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
- Regular: $25
- Youth: $12
- Program 1 and 2 Package: $44 (if purchasing package online, please note requested show dates)
Click here to see a PDF of the Seating plan.
Online ticket sales for this event are closed.
Ariana Nasr & Curtis Thorpe are delighted to bring their show featuring vintage popular songs to King’s Theatre. From jazz to soul to world classics and French chanson, this show highlights Ariana’s versatility as a vocalist as well as an instrumentalist (saxophone, accordion, violin), while Curtis’ multi-instrumental wizardry completes the sound. Together they breathe new life into old favourites. Expect to hear classics from Nina Simone, Édith Piaf, The Beatles, Jacques Brel, Dave Brubeck, Caruso, Latin America, Ariana’s father and more.
TICKETS available online (see below) or at the Box Office (902.532.7704)
- Member Price: $20.85 + hst = $24
- General Price: $24.85 + hst = $28
- Youth Price: $10.45 + hst = $12
Click here to see a PDF of the Seating plan.
Online ticket sales for this event are closed.
YESTERDAY, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. From Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) and Richard Curtis, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Notting Hill, comes a rock-n-roll comedy about music, dreams, friendship, and the long and winding road that leads to the love of your life. Jack Malik (Himesh Patel, BBC’s Eastenders) is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie (Lily James, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again). Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have never existed … and he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed. Performing songs by the greatest band in history to a world that has never heard them, and with a little help from his steel-hearted American agent, Debra (Emmy winner Kate McKinnon), Jack’s fame explodes. But as his star rises, he risks losing Ellie — the one person who always believed in him. With the door between his old life and his new closing, Jack will need to get back to where he once belonged and prove that all you need is love.
Cast: Kate McKinnon, Ana de Armas, Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, Kate McKinnon, Lamorne Morris, Sophia Di Martino, Joel Fry, Harry Michell, Ellise Chappell, Meera Syal, Vincent Franklin, Michael Kiwanuka, Karma Sood, Gus Brown, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Karl Theobald, Alexander Arnold, Dominic Coleman, Cherry Seaborn, Nic Minns, Maryana Spivak, Justin Edwards, Javone Prince, Camilla Rutherford, Sarah Lancashire, Jimmy Gallagher, James Corden, Elizabeth Berrington, Díana Bermudez, Director: Danny Boyle, Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Matt Wilkinson, Bernard Bellew, Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle, Nick Angel, Emma Freud, Writers: Richard Curtis, Jack Barth
Tickets: $11 Adult, $10 with Film Buff Card, $8 Youth.
All prices include HST.
Doors open 45 minutes before showtime. General admission seating, tickets at the door.
Thank you to our community movie partners Annapolis Home Hardware and Tripp’s Gallery,
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AUDITIONS
The Annapolis District Drama Group will produce the comedy, LOVE, SEX. and the I.R.S at King’s Theatre on November 29, 30 and December 1, 2019. Directed by Miles Leahy.
Auditions for this play will take place at King’s Theatre on Sunday August 25 and Monday August 26 from 6-8 p.m. If you are interested in auditioning for a part and cannot make those dates, contact Miles Leahy at 902-499-6333 or by email at milesleahy@outlook.com
The characters in the play are as follows:
- Kate Dennis female, age 18-25
- Leslie Arthur male, age 18-25
- Mr. Jansen male, age 40 plus
- Jon Trachtman male, age 18-25
- Floyd Spinner male, age 30 plus
- Vivian Trachtman female, age 40 plus
- Connie female, age 18-25
- Arnold Grunion male age 30 plus
AUDITIONS
The Annapolis District Drama Group will produce the comedy, LOVE, SEX. and the I.R.S at King’s Theatre on November 29, 30 and December 1, 2019. Directed by Miles Leahy.
Auditions for this play will take place at King’s Theatre on Sunday August 25 and Monday August 26 from 6-8 p.m. If you are interested in auditioning for a part and cannot make those dates, contact Miles Leahy at 902-499-6333 or by email at milesleahy@outlook.com
The characters in the play are as follows:
- Kate Dennis female, age 18-25
- Leslie Arthur male, age 18-25
- Mr. Jansen male, age 40 plus
- Jon Trachtman male, age 18-25
- Floyd Spinner male, age 30 plus
- Vivian Trachtman female, age 40 plus
- Connie female, age 18-25
- Arnold Grunion male age 30 plus
A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen. Filmmaker Nick Broomfield chronicles their relationship, from the early days in Greece to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician.
Stars: Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Helle Goldman, Marianne Ihlen
USA; 1h 42m
“Dutifully covering the rise, fall and final triumph of Cohen’s career, Broomfield relegates Ihlen to the background of her own story, before bringing her back for the film’s touching final act.”
– The Washington Post
Tickets: $11 Adult, $10 with Film Buff Card, $8 Youth.
All prices include HST.
FilmBuffs save $1 and enjoy free popcorn!
Doors open 45 minutes before showtime. General admission seating, tickets at the door.
Thank you to our community partners Kew Home, Bailey House B&B, Bridgetown Watch & Clock Repair, and Oakhaven Bike Barn/Joy Elliott Landscape Architectural Design.
Join us for a double-bill with two extraordinary of the region’s finest folk-roots-country singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists. Jeff Hennessy and Harvey Marcotte will each take the stage with an incredibly talented roster of musicians, performing their own music separately, and plus a few tunes together for one rollicking show.
JEFF HENNESSY, is a singer-songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Wolfville, launched his first CD right here in Annapolis Royal some 20 years ago, and has maintained deep connections in the community. He’s performed on the King’s stage twice in the last year alone, and with this concert he’ll be joined by his band THE SUNDRIES. They’re all professional musicians who have united in their collective love of country music to create a band that not only showcases high level musicianship but also creates a sound that will get everybody moving – a high energy night of old country, new country, and “countryish” other songs. Amazing musicians and a really fun show – super cool country music!
- Jeff Hennessy: Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals
- Sarah Pound: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
- Mike Reese: Lead Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
- Mike Carroll: Drums
- Kirk Hazel: Bass
HARVEY MARCOTTE has been flat picking, finger picking guitar since he was 12 years old. Playing Bob Dylan and the likes soon took him into folk and bluegrass styles. The mandolin was his second love which brought quickly into fiddle playing. He dug deeper into his roots and studied French Canadien fiddle as well as Celtic, Ukrainian and jazz. He`s played professionally since the tender age of 15. Performing the Acadian band Blou, he traveled to France, South America, and several Canadien festivals. He has shared the stage with Mae Moore, Susan Crowe, Jay Unger, Wilbur Hill, Rusty Trout, and more. He makes his home in Bear River.
- Harvey Marcotte: Vocals, Violin, Mandolin, Guitar
- Ken Shorley: Percussion
- Kirk Hazel: Bass, Vocals
TICKETS available online (see below) or at the Box Office (902.532.7704)
- Member Price: $22.60 + hst = $26
- General Price: $26.10 + hst = $30
- Youth Price: $10.45 + hst = $12
Click here to see a PDF of the Seating plan.
Online ticket sales for this event are closed.
The Angry Birds are back!
This time, these enemies become frenemies to take on a mysterious eagle (Leslie Jones) that is threatening both Bird and Pig Islands. The only way to stop her – assemble a bird/pig super-team. If there was any other way, they would have found it. Can they put aside their differences long enough to save the day – or even for just two seconds? It’s anyone’s guess at this point, but this unsteady alliance promises to be an awkward one to say the least.
Catch The Angry Birds Movie 2 at King’s Theatre when Red (Jason Sudeikis), Chuck (Josh Gad), Bomb (Danny McBride), and Mighty Eagle (Peter Dinklage) recruit Chuck’s sister Silver (Rachel Bloom) and team up with pigs Leonard (Bill Hader), his assistant Courtney (Awkwafina), and techpig Garry (Sterling K. Brown) to save their homes!
PG | 1h 36min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Tickets: $11 Adult, $10 with Film Buff Card, $8 Youth.
All prices include HST.
Doors open 45 minutes before showtime. General admission seating, tickets at the door.
Thank you to our community movie partners Annapolis Home Hardware and Tripp’s Gallery,
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