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DANCE & DRAMA SECTIONS

MANDATE
Dance: To meet and collaborate over drama and dance activities and events that educate, challenge and further our  members’ interests in the broad field of dance and drama.

MEMBERSHIP
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Dance:
  • Criteria: potential members should either have a practical or research background in any dance form, or a strong interest in actively supporting the dance field.  
  • Current members include a broad range of practitioners including dancers, choreographers, teachers, historians, critics, writers and administrators who work in a variety of dance genres.
Drama: 
  • Criteria: potential members should either have a practical or research background in drama, or a strong interest in actively supporting the dramatic arts.
  • Current members include a broad range of practitioners including actors, writers and teachers.
SECTION MEETINGS
The Dance Section and the Drama Section are currently meeting together. They usually meet informally, often planned in connection with scheduled Dance or Drama Section events, to take place just prior to the event. More formal meetings for future planning of events are scheduled as required. There are approximately three meetings per season.  
SECTION ACTIVITIES
Dance:
  • Appointment of a Dancer-in-Residence each season since 2011. The artist presents two performances during the season, the first is an informal rehearsal with Q&A and the second  performance occurs near the end of the season.  
  • Occasionally host small performances of local performing organizations. In the past these have included Toronto Heritage Dance, Ballet Jorgen, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, various solo performances.
  • Periodically host scholarly Dance Research presentations
  • Occasionally hold movement and dance workshops and classes
  • Participate and collaborate in other section events, i.e. Art Exhibitions, Concert Series
  • Planning and executing an annual Dance Salon event to reach a wider audience of Club members and their guests
Drama:
  • Appoint a Playwright-in-Residence.
  • Present an annual Drama Salon to reach a wider audience of Club members and the public.
  • Hold workshops lead by the Playwright in residence.
  • Attend theatre productions with an introduction by the playwright, director or member of the cast.
  • Participate and collaborate in other section events.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
  • Day trips and performance outings with reduced group rate tickets
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CURRENT CHAIR
Mary Jane Warner is professor emerita in the Dance Department at York University. For many years she taught courses in education, history, movement analysis, ballet and dance documentation. In addition, she held several administrative positions: Chair, Graduate Program Director in the Department of Dance and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Fine Arts. A specialist in Canadian dance history, her book Toronto Dance Teachers: 1825-1925 was published in 1996. She co-edited Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories, an anthology of Canadian dance, with fellow Heliconian Selma Odom, in 2004. Her articles have appeared in Theatre History in Canada, Canadian Dance Studies, Canadian Theatre Review, Journal of Dance Education and in numerous dictionaries and conference proceedings. Currently, she is co-director of Toronto Heritage Dance, a professional dance company dedicated to presenting revivals of Canadian contemporary dance.  She served as President of the Club for four terms and is currently serving on the Planners Committee and as editor of the Heliconian Bulletin. 

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  • Home
  • COVID-19 Updates
  • ABOUT
    • Overview
    • Who We Are
  • Contact
  • Membership
    • Joining the Heliconian Club
  • Hall Rentals
    • Concert and Artistic Rentals
    • Non-Artistic Event Rentals (Including Weddings)
    • Corporate Event Rentals
    • Rental Sponsorship
    • Space Details
    • Rental Policies
    • Hall Gallery
  • Art Exhibitions
    • Art Exhibition Schedule
    • Drawing from Life 2023
    • Woman
    • Past Exhibit Catalogues
  • Concert Series
  • Life drawing
  • Literary Lecture Series
    • About the 2022-23 Series
    • Current Subscriber Log in
  • Artistic Residencies
    • Artistic Residency Information
    • Current Artists in Residence
    • Past Artists in Residence
  • Musings: An Anthology
  • EVENTS AND TICKETS
  • Heliconian Club Member Log-In