Prologue's 2022/2023 Season Catalogue

Welcome to the 2022/2023 Season

Message from the Executive Director

Dear Teachers and Prologue Supporters,

We are back on the road, and we are so thrilled to be able to connect with you all again in person. We are grateful for your support over the past two years in helping to make our transition to virtual programming a success. Over the past two years, we were able to continue providing arts experiences to over 500,000 students all across Ontario.

This year we are excited to offer both virtual and in-person experiences ensuring we are fully accessible to all students.

This year's programming includes music, theatre, spoken word, Indigenous Education, and much more, with incredible new artists and returning favourites.

We are excited to get back in the classroom and look forward to an exciting year of presenting arts experiences to students across the province.

Sincerely, Maria Williams Executive Director

Land Acknowledgement

From everyone here at Prologue, we would like to express our gratitude for the ability to work, live, and gather on this traditional territory named Tkarón:to; the place in the water where the trees stand; the land that is currently known as Toronto.

We would like to acknowledge that we are situated on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Wendat Peoples. We acknowledge them and the many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, and all other Nations who care for this land (recorded and unrecorded).

We recognize our responsibility to understand and disrupt the ongoing systems of oppression, and to reflect on the meaning of, and the path towards, reconciliation.

From Humming to Mouth Drumming In-Person or Virtual Workshop

Krystal Dos

Cuba Brazil Carnival Experience In-Person

In his energetic and interactive performance, Joaquín showcases World Music and Latin rhythms. Students will have the opportunity to participate in percussion exercises, vocal chants, and traditional dance steps, and learn about percussion instruments used in styles such as Samba and Conga.

More than Motown Virtual Performance Watch Preview

Krystle and her 4-piece band take audiences back to the peak of Motown Music to learn about its historical and significant impact on soul music.

A celebration of Canada’s cultural diversity and pluralism, Kuné showcases music from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Students will learn about where each artist is from, what languages they speak, and see and hear the sounds of the Oud, the Cajon, the Dizi, the Ngoni and more.

African Voyage/ Voyage Africain In-Person or Virtual Performance

In this interactive performance, students will learn the important role that music, dance, and storytelling play in everyday life in Cameroon. Students will experience and participate in traditional dance and drumming, listen to a traditional story, and learn about the importance of community in Central Africa. View

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The Human Radio

In-Person or Virtual Performance Watch Preview

Multi-talented beatboxer and live looping maestro Ruploops uses vocal percussion, rhythmic rhymes, and an arsenal of eclectic instruments to create an engaging musical experience. Rup demonstrates how the human form is a musical instrument with an investigation of the design of our auditory and aural systems. With a mix of hip hop, blues and bhangra, Rup tunes into themes of home, identity, culture, and justice.

In the Footsteps of the Great Medieval Traveller Ibn Battuta

In-Person or Virtual Performance Watch Preview

In this performance and workshop, participants will experience the music and dance of some of the countries that Ibn Battuta travelled to: Morocco, Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China. Inspired by this journey, Anwar Khurshid will play a variety of instruments and sing while Geneviève Beaulieu dances.

Speed

Rock and Roll: Canada vs. the World In-Person or Virtual Performance

Cruise through the last 50 years of famous Canadian musicians, showcasing the influence on their own generation and those to come.

Rockology: What makes music rock? In-Person Performance Watch Preview

Rockology reveals the mechanics and fundamentals of rock music. Rock anthem workshops also offered.

Rock Anthem Workshop

Every school deserves its own rock anthem! Enjoy Speed Control’s show for the whole school and then spend the day brainstorming, writing, and rehearsing an original school anthem.

Dusk Dances

Examine the elements of rhythm, sound, and space in this virtual edition of Dusk Dances. Showcasing the works of diverse choreographers and musicians, Dusk Dances is beautifully filmed with an innovative cinematographic vision that brings each segment to life in stunning outdoor locations.

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Fall For Dance North

The Fall For Dance North Experience Virtual Performance

Toronto's premiere dance festival brings us a curated virtual program based on their main stage show that connects students with a variety of exceptional dance styles, created and performed by powerhouse Canadian and international choreographers at the top of their game.

Kaeja d’Dance

EXPRESS DANCE

In-Person or Virtual Workshop Watch Preview

This inclusive workshop encourages students to discover dance through their own movement vocabulary. Participants will work in small groups to create simple dance phrases, a fun way to promote physical activity, social connection, and mental wellbeing. All workshops support the Ontario Arts curriculum for dance education and are taught by professional dance teachers.

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Little Pear Garden Dance Company

The Tales of Goddesses and a Painter In-Person Performance

This story follows the Chinese Empire's best painter as he travels the Silk Road, creating cave paintings inspired by the many cultures along the way.

Dances of China: A Celebration of Asian Heritage in Canada Virtual Workshop

Students learn a number of Chinese dance styles and their connections to history and geography.

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Felicity Falls

Stories for Building Bridges

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Flute

In-Person or Virtual Performance Watch Preview

In this whimsical adaptation of Mozart’s most famous opera, Allegra finds a golden flute on her way home from school. Blowing on it, her street turns into a dark forest and out pops Papageno, a strange bird-catcher! Through the power of music and the magic of make-believe, Allegra and Papageno embark on an adventure of sharing and self-discovery.

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Squirrel Suit Productions

The ADHD Project In-Person or Virtual Performance

Storyteller/Comedian Carlyn Rhamey shares the trials and triumphs of growing up with ADHD and learning to embrace what makes us different. From her diagnosis and placement in a segregated classroom to navigating her “superpower” now as an adult, this is an intimate and honest journey exploring ADHD and celebrating neurodiversity.

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Holy Guacamole! (It’s a Poetry Show) In-Person or Virtual Performance Watch Preview

Holy Guacamole, it’s a Poetry Show! is a kinetic feast of words and song that offers students the opportunity to revel in the thrill of word play while grounding the fun with practical lessons about rhythm and figurative language. Featuring a dinosaur rap, songs about planets, hilarious haikus, and poems about everything from climate change to your lunch box, the show delivers content that’s both entertaining for the ears and challenging for the mind.

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Britta B.

Rebel with a Rhyme In-Person or Virtual Performance

How do you find your voice and turn it into a career? In her performance, Britta B. uses poetry performance and conversation to discuss how she came to recognize her voice through spoken word poetry and turned it into her career. Her talk explores themes of identity, diversity, women’s empowerment, and resiliency as a platform for creative and thriving communities.

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I n d i g e n o u s e d u c a t i o n Kung Jaadee

Haida Stories In-person or Virtual Performance

In her storytelling performance, Kung Jaadee shares a few famous Haida legends about Raven (Yaahl), the creator of the world, and their universal teachings. She also shares some traditional Raven songs while using her drum, teaches some basic words in aad Kil (Haida language), and shows X̱ her traditional regalia. A post-show Q & A includes a discussion about Haida culture and history.

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Tribal Vision Dance

Visions of Turtle Island In-Person or Virtual Performance

Explore First Nations history and traditions in Tribal Vision’s high-energy performance! The artists will explain the history and significance of their dances and illustrate the cultural experience of First Nations peoples in Canada. This show is an introduction to the powwow culture of North American Indigenous people.

First

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Dance

In-Person or Virtual Workshop

Students will be moving and dancing for the duration of this high energy dance workshop. They will learn about the history and meanings of the dances that they participate in.

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Lazylegz

Danse et rythmes traditionnels

Virtual Workshop Watch Preview

Students will join Franco-Ontarian family band Ariko to learn a basic rhythm on spoons and a simple step dance.

Chansons traditionnelles

Virtual Workshop Watch Preview

Students will join Ariko to learn to sing 3 traditional French language songs and traditional French-Canadian foot stomping.

Everyone Can Dance

Virtual Workshop Watch Preview

"Adapt, stay positive, and learn to do things your own way”, this is the key behind Luca’s “No Excuses, No Limits” philosophy. In this workshop Luca will teach dance with a unique “twist” to explore various movements and promote the importance of adaptation in life and in dance.

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Sultans of String

TROUBADOUR

In-Person or Virtual Performance

Ford's hilarious original songs combine audience participation and storytelling to explore Canadian history, sustainability, and treaty responsibility.

Les mots qui chantent/Canada Needs Songs - In-Person or Virtual Workshops

Groups are guided through stages of improv, brain-storming, song structure, rhyme & rhythm and editing, to provide experience in lyric-based song creation.

Concerts

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Tara Luz Danse

Les bâtons Virtual Performance

Inspired by a fun musical instrument called “Boomwhackers”, Les bâtons is a creative, playful and dynamic work that explores the power of imagination. The artists combine their ingenuity to transform these colourful objects in clever and unexpected ways. The show celebrates the coming together of three artistic disciplines – dance, music and theatre – and how these three art forms can co-exist within one work in unique ways.

This program is offered in English or bilingual.

Will’s Jams

The Possibility Program

The Possibility Program is inspired by the founding vision of Prologue – that every young person in Ontario should have access to performing arts experiences.

The Program subsidizes performances and workshops in schools that are identified as underserved to address issues of equity caused by limited school arts budgets.

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Successful applicants will receive $500 per school year that can be used to subsidize a Prologue performance or workshop.

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