2019 and 2020 (so far!) have been a blast, as we've been busy making new connections with inspiring artists, educators, cultural leaders and activists from around the globe!

Some highlights from our recent adventures include a stop at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the Cervantino Festival in Mexico, and ISPA in New York City.

We also had the honour of performing and celebrating the incredible work of Kaeja d'Dance at Dance Ontario's Lifetime Achievement Awards, and Modern Times Stage Company's 30th Anniversary. Karen Kaeja and Soheil Parsa have been great mentors and supporters of JDT.

Artistic Director Roshanak Jaberi started her Global Fellowship with ISPA, and the company is diving into the research and creation of new work. More to share in the coming months!

Peggy Baker Dance Projects: her body as words March 19 - 29, 2020, Franco Boni Theatre at The Theatre Centre The incomparable Peggy Baker’s latest creation, her body as words, is an exploration and explosion of female motive, mystique, and physicality, arising as a response to a radical new translation of Simone du Beauvoir’s landmark work, The Second Sex. Outstanding dancers Sze-Yang Ade-Lam, Nicole Rose Bond, Aria Evans, Kate Holden, and Margarita Soria bring the strange, unsettling and dangerous world of her body as words to life, with a commissioned score from Toronto-based innovators Anne Bourne (cello and voice) and Fides Krucker (voice).

“Her choreographic adventures have been risk-taking, imaginative and intellectually rigorous...She is an exemplar of artistic integrity and the pursuit of truth through art.”

—Michael Crabb, Dance Critic – The Toronto Star