Rare Beauties is a highly theatrical dance piece exploring extreme emotional states and transformation. The piece is danced to a score featuring a multitude of jazz music from various eras. Created in collaboration with Hannah Fisher (costumes) and Steve Isom (lights) the piece uses costume and light to morph and sculpt the space, themes and dancers throughout the work. Danced by the DJD company, rare beauties themselves, choreographed and directed by DJD Artistic Director Kimberley Cooper, this new piece is part of One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo and promises to be physical, groove driven, moody, strange, and of course, beautiful.
Special Events
Join us for one of our special events throughout the run — including Opening Night celebrations and a Post-Show Talkback with the artists.
PERFORMANCE EVENTS
Opening Night - January 15
Talkback Night - January 16
Regular Run January 15-25
Performance information:
Latecomers policy: Please allow extra time to arrive as roads may be busy with closures and construction. Our theatre is very intimate hence, we are unable to seat guests after the show has begun without disturbing the rest of the audience. Latecomers will not be seated until intermission, and will be invited to watch Act 1 from a monitor in the lobby.
Artistic Director’s Message
Kimberley Cooper
What lifts you? What makes your heart sing? What do you do when you feel lousy? Sad? Lonely? Music is what does it for me, it can change my mood instantly. And of course, for me, music then becomes dance.
Some may ask, how can we dance when the world is as it is? How can we not? Dance is necessary, dance is medicine, dance is resistance. It’s about living life and giving life – not by making babies but by making art, art with history in resistance, in healing, and helping people rise and celebrate in the worst of times, and escape, or forget for a moment. And remember as well, what is important, what is the point. I believe a path to getting out of the mess we are currently in, is by coming together, sharing experiences by dancing and making music.
So, as you plan your path for the next several months, why not join us for a beautiful season of new work? We passed our 40th milestone last year and now we blast into the future with bold new ideas, movement and music.
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DANCERS
Rare Beauties features the DJD Company dancers Isaac Abriel, Gisele Ardosa, Thys Armstrong, Cassandra Bowerman, Sabrina Naz Comănescu, Mara Liao Esnard, Catherine Hayward and Kaja Irwin.
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). Walk offs are not permitted, your car can only remain in the DJD parking lot while you are at the DJD Dance 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.
