Performance
2025

Performance
not knowing is the most intimate | curated by Shalon Webber-Heffernan
May 10, 15, 16, 17, 18The Commons @ 401, 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto

Inspired by the Buddhist koan, “not knowing is the most intimate,” the series embraces the uncertainty of our contemporary emotional landscapes, inviting both artists and audiences to move into the discomfort of uncharted waters.

Amy Hull
Claudia Edwards
Joyce LeeAnn
Sasha Singer-Wilson
Trish Lanns

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 (soon!)

Performance
Threshold | curated by Christina Anna Trutiak
April 13, 19, 26Various staircases

Threshold is a research project that invites three emerging local artists to make an outdoor performance on a public staircase in Toronto.

Isaak Fong
lwrds duniam
Tess Martens

Performance
On View | curated by Jordan King
Feb 22, March 1 & 8, 2025

In this first offering in the Emerging Artists Series for 2025, curator Jordan King invites artists to include the presence of the camera while simultaneously resisting making a performance for the camera.

Performances: Feb 22, March 1 & 8
Artist talks: Feb 23 & 28, March 9

Performance
Future Dances
March 15, 2025Commons @ 401, 401 Richmond Street West12:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Dancemakers and FADO team up for this speculative choreography project in which 8 artists create a dancework for the year 2074.

Performance Yellow

This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?

Top Notes

yellow mandarin, mimosa

Middle Notes

honey, chamomile, salt

Base Notes

narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer