Artist or audience, we are often walking together or alone (and sometimes running).

Performance
The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: A Travelling Circus by Cason Sharpe
Performance
part of the ramble that remained in the end without by Mark So
Performance
More Cleaning and Loving (It) … Again by Margaret Dragu
Performance
OPEN FIRE | FEU OUVERT by Marie-Claude Gendron
Performance
single use salmon plogging by Ayumi Goto
Performance
Performance by John Court
Performance
MONOMYTHS Stage 5
Performance
Transmitting Trio A (1966) with Sara Wookey
Performance
Potential Fertility Rite by TallBlondLadies
Performance
Tyranny of Bliss by Tanya Mars
Performance
Walking and Getting Rid of Something by Kirsten Forkert
Performance
Disposition by Adina Bar-On
Performance
<< Public Web >> by Tagny Duff
Performance
where do I go from here? by Stefanie Marshall
Performance
Clock by Jennifer Nelson & Glen Redpath

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June 2025

AYUM-EE-AAWACH
OOMAMA-MOWAN
Speaking to Their Mother

Sand Flight
Silt: Freshwater
Shadowlands
Rejection/Ambition
and more…

Performance
We Could Break Performance with Vanessa Godden and James Knott
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We Could Break Performance is a podcast hosted by artists Vanessa Godden and James Knott investigating the question: “How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?”

Epi 1: F-F Granados
EpI 2: Archer Pechawis
Epi 3: Erika DeFreitas
Epi 4: Mikiki
Epi 5: Kiera Boult
Epi 6: James Knott, Vanessa Godden, Jordan Beley, Shalon Webber-Heffernan

Series
Walk-and-Talk
 2024–2025

In FADO’s newest series, we highlight and investigate two foundational gestures of the performance art vocabulary—walking, talking—through performances and discursive interventions that explore their intrinsic mutual imbrication.

Walk with us.

Land Acknowledgement

FADO Performance Art Centre acknowledges that as settlers, we are not the first to gather in this place where we currently operate, the location where you can find our office and the place where the vast majority of the performances we present are created, witnessed and enjoyed. This land, the place that we now refer to as ‘Toronto’ is the traditional and unceded territory of many First Nations and peoples including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, living as they were in the North Part of Turtle Island.

Colophon

FADO identity and website designed and developed by I Know You Know. The rebranding process aimed for an "anti-identity" approach—as little design as possible, an empty frame for artists to fill. The guiding question soon became: How does the website itself “perform”? A clock counts time spent on the site; an oversized cursor highlights gesture and focus; a time machine panel refreshes and reframes the archive; a synesthesia of color and custom fragrances guides navigation.


I Know You Know, Los Angeles, New York, 2022.

FADO Performance Art Centre
445-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5V 3A8

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info@performanceart.ca

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Series Purple

An ode to FADO's history, Series Purple is composed of a collection of purple fragrance materials dating back to the Roman Empire. Dense, intense, and meandering, this fragrance tells us non-linear stories.

Top Notes

huckleberry, violet

Middle Notes

cassis, lilac, heliotrope

Base Notes

orris root, purple sage, labdanum