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 Having just turned 70 (which seems like saying 180) I am very grateful to still be teaching, still demonstrating my entire class - including jumps (touch wood), and I seem never to have been entering a more challenging and exciting season since the inception of the company in 1997.
The two sold out summer schools provided a forum for the creation of new work on my part. My working title is Night Garden and the music is Johannes Ciconia, a Flemish composer who had an illustrious career in Italy around 1400. I’m planning two eventual realizations of this project - Part I in October for Bill James’ revolutionary company in Peterborough (where my soul was born) called Old Men Dancing (OMD) - I actually have a relative (Peter Earle) performing with that company - all men - and all over 50! Part II will be in Banff in November with some of the same material and some new selections created in France in September at La Roche d’Hys, a Canadian Arts centre in Burgundy, where we performed last year. The 09/10 season seems daunting for the small scale of our enterprise - but we have so many highly gifted dancers to show to the world that, as always, we feel we are on a sacred mission. I had scarcely imagined it would be possible to resume touring my works, particularly in this cultural climate - yet maybe even because of it, performance dates are appearing well into the future. It seems that there is indeed an audience for the passionate and highly skilled presentation of dance.
~ David Earle, September 2009
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The River Run Centre hosts an informal evening of Dance on Film with commentary by one of Canada's foremost modern dance artists, David Earle, on Friday March 19, 2010 from 7-9pm in the Co-operators Hall. Admission is by RSVP and is free of charge.  photo: David Earle |
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 Photo: Don Lee Explore Your Passion! Two Summer Dance Intensives for 2010
In 2010 DtDE is holding Summer Dance Intensives for both professional and beginner levels. Classes in technique, coaching, repertoire and creation with some of Canada's most distinguished and admired teachers and creators.
"It is DtDE's belief that dance offers a unique experience, engaging the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Dance begins where words end. It is the global language. It is essential in these times to pass on to as many people as possible the solace and empowerment that this, the oldest art form, can confer.
In the age of self, of the computer, I believe that the living arts will experience a renaissance to provide a much needed balance to people’s lives. Dance can be the most healing art for those who perform and those who watch. Dancers are not only the athletes of the gods but also their messengers.
There has been a tragic tradition in dance of cruelty, of emotional and physical abuse. We are doing everything in our power to reverse this situation, to bring affirmative values to young dancers that will encourage wholeness and health as well as poetry and personal power in every individual." - David Earle |
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The 2009 Fall Newsletter is available by downloading here . |
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DtDE and the PSQ bring home the Odyssey program, as premiered in Banff, to the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts on April 7 and to the Guelph River Run Centre on April 8, 2010. |
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2009 October 16th - Quantum to Cosmos, Waterloo, ON October 21 to 24th - Miserere, Buffalo, NY November 7th - Guelph Chamber Choir, Guelph ON November 28th - DtDE & PSQ Odyssey (Premiere) - Banff, AB November 6, 7 & 8th - Niagara Dance Company - St. Catharineʼs, ON December 3, 4 & 5th - Old Men Dancing, Peterborough, ON December 11 & 12th - Choreographic Workshop Showings - Guelph, ON 2010 January 24, 2010 - Dance Ontario, Toronto, ON January 27th - DtDE & PSQ, Sarnia, ON March 19th - Dance on Film: An Evening With David Earle, Guelph, ON March 27th - DtDE & PSQ, Welland, ON April 7th - DtDE & PSQʼs Odyssey - Richmond Hill, ON April 8th - DtDE & PSQ, Odyssey, - Guelph, ON April 12-17th - DtDE on Tour - Dryden, Fort Frances, Sioux Lookout |
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DtDE will complete a two-week theatre residence at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Fine Arts this November to complete and stage Omar Daniels’ Penelope and Odysseus with the PSQ and live electronics. |
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Dancetheatre David Earle joins the Guelph Chamber Choir to celebrate their 30th Anniversary with the premiere of a new work to John Rutter’s “Mass of the Children” on Saturday, November 7, 2009. 
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Dance Collection Danse is pleased to announce the launch of their fifth web exhibition, David Earle: A Choreographic Biography. This exhibition, largely drawn from Michele Green's book of the same name, published by DCD Press/es in 2006, brings the work of a great Canadian modern dance choreographer back to life.
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Dancetheatre David Earle holds an ongoing range of classes for adults -
from beginner to advanced - at our home studios in Guelph.
Temple Studios is located in downtown Guelph, across from the Bookshelf Cafe. Look for the bright yellow door at 42
Quebec Street and travel one flight up to find yourself in our gorgeous
sunlit spaces!
Check the Temple Studios website for schedule information, and we'll see you there!
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Review by James Reid
Published in The Dance Current, September 2006.
When I opened David Earle: A Choreographic Biography, I browsed through
the photographs first. The impact of these carefully reproduced
pictures is powerful. The sense of the passage of time is overwhelming.
Images of Earle as a boy give way to those of a handsome youth whose
gaze seems to be already looking forward to a long and unprecedented
career.
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NOW IN STORES!
by Michele Green
Published by Dance Collection Danse Press/es
This book brings to life a collection of words and images which celebrate choreographer David Earle’s monumental gifts to the art of dance in Canada.
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