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On Tour

Let DJD bring jazz to life for your audiences in a way they’ve never experienced before. DJD invites audiences to experience how jazz shapes movement and feeling; to explore the connection between personal expression and collaboration; and to move.

Our touring company includes eight to twelve dancers and three to eight musicians, depending on the work that is being offered. We have an extensive variety of full evening works in our repertoire. DJD has toured various locations on a biannual basis since 2005. Past tour highlights include Japan, Cuba, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Chicago and all corners of Canada, including International Jazz Festivals in Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg.

JULIET & ROMEO – ON TOUR 2019-2020

DJD’s take on Shakespeare’s classic tale
Artistic Direction and Choreography by Kimberley Cooper | Adapted and narrated by Cory Bowles
Featuring the DJD Company of dancers and live, original music by the Nick Fraser Ensemble

Two households… This is dance, this is theatre, this is a jazz concert. This is Shakespeare’s tale of love and violence re-imagined, re-visited, re-loved hyper-realized, sampled, questioned recognizable but twisted, current and classic, gritty and glorious. Passion, pheromones, pick-up lines, I want you I need you I love you These violent delights have violent ends.

Acclaim for Juliet & Romeo

“Bowles is a charismatic narrator…His story is quirky, at times quite brilliant, sometimes wacky, always compelling… Choreographically, the show is masterful. Cooper’s choreography switches up pace and mood to keep us engaged, even enthralled.” – Anne Georg
“This is dance.” – This Calgary Life
“…entrancing, exciting, and best of all, steamily on message…” – Calgary Herald
“…a lucid, smart and sassy contemporary commentary on Shakespeare’s classic tale.” – Edmonton Journal
“… there’s plenty here in dance and dream to delight and deconstruct R and J into a powerful new J and R.” – Calgary Herald
“…an exciting, vivacious new dance piece.” – Stephen Hunt
“It looks beautiful.” – Metro News, Calgary

MIMIC – ON TOUR 2020 – 2021

BOOKING Enquiries:
Contact DJD Agent, Sarah Rogers, for booking informatioN

TOUR HISTORY:

2016 TOUR – GREAT JAZZ HISTORY MYSTERY

Northern College Auditorium, Kirkland Lake, ON
Geraldton High School, Geraldton, ON
The Centre, Dryden, ON
Red Lake Madsen Public School, Red Lake, ON
Evergreen School, Kenora, ON
Townsend Theatre, Fort Frances, ON
Atikokan, ON
Sault Saint Marie, ON

2013 TOUR – GREAT JAZZ HISTORY MYSTERY

Morinville, AB
Victoria School of the Arts, Victoria, BC     

2009 TOUR – WOWFLUTTER:

Dunn Theatre, Halifax NB
Rose Theatre, Brampton ON
Brock Centre for the Arts, St. Catherines ON
Port Theatre, Nanaimo BC
MacPherson Playhouse, Victoria BC
Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse YT
Vernon & District PAC, Vernon BC
The Arden, St. Albert AB