Thank you for joining us for Party Time!
Artistic Director’s Message
Kimberley Cooper
Welcome.
Joy and wonder are crucial to our existence. As I and many other people have said, it is the role of the artist to make us think, to lift us up and give us a chance to escape, to say things words can’t. William Parker, a brilliant and prolific jazz artist with whom we have collaborated with a couple of times, once said to me — artists are like trees — we bring oxygen to the world.
So here is some oxygen for you, some shelter from the storm, some light, some LIFE. I hope this party can bring you some joy and make you laugh. I wanted to make something beautiful and strange, fun and funny, groovy and surreal, transformative and bewitching, and I think I have, I think we have.
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Featuring the DJD Company
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring the Thys Armstrong and Sabrina Naz Comănescu
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Shemar Herbert, Thys Armstrong, Kaja Irwin and Catherine Hayward
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Shahrzad Ahmadi
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring the DJD Company
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Shermar Herbert, Kaja Irwin and Simeon Peters
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Thys Armstrong
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Sabrina Naz Comănescu
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring the DJD Company
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring the DJD Company
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Mara Liao Esnard and Simeon Peters
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Sabrina Naz Comănescu and the DJD Company
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Kaja Irwin
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Kaja Irwin, Thys Armstrong, Catherine Hayward, Shemar Herbert and Shahrzad Ahmadi
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Shemar Herbert
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Simeon Peters
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Behind the scenes video by Noel Bégin
TRAILERS
BLOGS
Go behind the scenes with our Party Time blogs, including interviews Costume Designer Hannah Fisher and Musical Director Carsten Rubeling.
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE BLOGS
MUSIC FROM THE SHOW
Music composed by Carsten Rubeling with Jeff Gammon, Luis Tovar and André Wickenheiser.
DANCERS
Party Time features the DJD Company dancers Shahrzad Ahmadi, Thys Armstrong, Sabrina Naz Comănescu, Catherine Hayward, Kaja Irwin, Mara Liao Esnard, Simeon Peters and Shemar Herbert (Apprentice)
CLICK HERE TO READ DANCER BIOS
MUSICIANS
Party Time features original live music played composed by and musical direction by Carsten Rubeling (Keys, Trombone) with Jeff Gammon (Bass), Luis Tovar (drums) and André Wickenheiser (Trumpet).
CLICK HERE TO READ MUSICIAN BIOS
THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS:
Parking at DJD
The DJD Dance Centre parkade offers FREE underground parking Monday to Friday after 5PM and on Saturdays and Sundays. The parkade is free to valid ticket holders and students. Please note a code is needed to enter the parkade. (you will receive a code for the parkade 24 hours before the performance you are attending or with your class purchase). You can access the DJD parkade off Centre Street (at the back of the Kahanoff Centre).
Please note: There is a 6 foot maximum height restriction for our underground parking.
Additional parking
Two large paid-public parking lots are located at the South and East sides of the building. Two-hour meter street parking is available on Center Street SE, between 12 and 13 Avenue SE. Two disabled parking spaces are available on the south side of the building.