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Aluna Theatre announces its 2015-16 Season

July 28, 2015

(Toronto, ON) Having celebrated the success of our past season with nine Dora nominations for two major productions, and six wins for our co-production of Blood Wedding | Bodas de Sangre with Modern Times, Aluna presents a 2015-2016 season of collaborations with emerging and established artists.


CAMINOS 2015: Re-imagining Las Americas
November 3 – 8, 2015, Aki Studio & Ada Slaight Hall in Daniels Spectrum, Toronto
CAMINOS is a week of new works-in-progress from some of the most exciting Latin-Canadian voices working in theatre and dance. This is the Pan-America that lives here in Toronto. Each evening features performance experiments and a lively exchange of ideas. Featuring new works from: Rosa Labordé, Carmen Aguirre, and Aluna’s Bilingual Ensemble, as well as Australian-Colombian Walter J. Broderick performing his adaptation of Beckett’s First Love.
CAMINOS 2015 is presented in partnership with Native Earth Performing Arts, and dovetails with their Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival.

El Refugio de Freidel | The Refuge of Freidel
January 20-24, 2016, as part of Progress, The Theatre Centre, Toronto
By Liliana Suarez Heñao and Beatriz Pizano
One woman’s journey from Colombia’s Avant-Garde theatre to Toronto’s after-hours service industry. Liliana is a refugee remembering her work with controversial Colombian theatre-maker Jose Manuel Freidel, who was brutally assassinated in Medellin in the early 90s. Presented in Spanish with English surtitles. Co-produced with the Freidel Collective.

All Season Long

The Interpretation Lab
Aluna has embarked on a year and a half of experimentation in how to break the barriers of language in a performance setting – through translation, action, design and technology. Our Bilingual Ensemble (Marcelo Arroyo, Carlos González-Vio, Ximena Huizi, and Rosa Labordé) and a roster of local and international guest artists will be conducting a number of workshops, performance experiments and public presentations. The Interpretation Lab is supported by the Toronto Arts Council’s Open Door program, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Aluna Theatre also continues its regular reading series of works from Latin America and the Diaspora,
The Aluna Café. Dates of readings to be announced, in various locations across Southern Ontario.

About the Company
Aluna Theatre is an artistically driven Canadian / Colombian theatre company based in Toronto. We create exciting new work that introduces audiences to diverse and rich performance practices from across the Americas. Aluna’s bold productions in English and Spanish are marked by a distinct theatrical language drawing from our heritages, cultures, and languages, including dance, physical theatre, and a multi-media design. In twelve years of production, we have received 26 Dora Award nominations for acting, writing, directing, and design – and have won eleven awards.
Artistic Director: Beatriz Pizano.

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Aluna Theatre is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, The Metcalf Foundation, The George Lunan Foundation and McAuslan Brewing.
Carmen Aguirre’s work in CAMINOS is commissioned, developed and produced by Nightswimming

Media contact: Sue Balint | sue@alunatheatre.ca | 647.216.3974

 

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