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A Letter From David

Image 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

 

 
2009 Fall Newsletter

The 2009 Fall Newsletter is available by downloading here .

 

 
Season At A Glance

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

Early March - Vaughn Barclay Film Premiere - 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

 
Odyssey in Guelph and Richmond Hill

DtDE and the PSQ bring home the Odyssey program, as premiered in Banff and including David’s newest creation - Antico: Seven Antique Fragements, 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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Choreographic Workshops

Dancetheatre David Earle invites you to a studio showing of new dance works developed in our Choreographic Workshop Series, on Sunday December 13, 2009.

 

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The Odyssey

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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Guelph Chamber Choir's 30th Anniversary

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 Web Exhibit

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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DtDE Technique Classes at Temple Studios
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!


 
A History and Celebration of Dance
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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DAVID EARLE: A CHOREOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
NOW IN STORES!

by Michele Green
Published by Dance Collection Danse Press/es

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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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