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| Wednesday, December 5, 2007 |
| Luminato Has Launched! |
by Alison Broverman
CEO Janice Price announced the highly anticipated Luminato 2008 line up early this afternoon at the Jane Mallett Theatre to an eager crowd of Toronto media and culture types.
The 2008 line up has a great mix of local, national and international talent, and an impressive number of world premieres and Luminato co-commissions.
I'm a theatre nerd, so most of the shows making my mouth water are plays like the National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch, and Toronto's own Roseneath Theatre's Rocket and the Queen of Dreams, and multimedia Quebec theatre artist Marie Brassard's The Glass Eye.
The line up feels a little heavy on the dance side this year, but that can be a good thing, especially since it includes nightly free public dance parties in Dundas Square every night, complete with dance lessons beforehand. Plus, there's not only live dance performances by the likes of the Mark Morris Dance Group (who will be participating in a week-long residency at the festival), but there will be multidisciplinary, interactive dance installations as well, like William Forsythe's City of Abstracts, which will project and distort the movements of passers-by onto a giant outdoor screen.
That kind of large scale public art is what made Luminato such a success last year, so I was a little disappointed to note that this year's festival doesn't seem to have any plans for any installations involving very large things hanging from ceilings (something that I personally believe to be one of the pinnacles of art, or at least of awesomeness). Last year's black balls in BCE Place (now called Brookfield Place, which will play host to Mille Femmes, a photography exhibition by French artist Pierre Maraval) were a delight every time I walked through there, as were the huge horses in Union Station. Whither the oversized suspended art? |
posted by Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts & Creativity @ 9:16 PM  |
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