Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie moves towards a choreo-harmonic convergence in August, 2007 ... a 21st Century celebration of dance and culture unlike anything you've ever seen before!

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"It is fortunate that the Governor General should recognize achievements in the 'media arts.' For it is only a term as open-ended in its compass as 'media' that could possibly serve to embrace the wildly multifarious yet utterly particular art of John Oswald. 'Media' is plural, denoting more than one medium. And a medium, in its most basic sense, is a means, any means, of effecting or conveying something, anything. Medium is also a poetically apt word to invoke in the case of John Oswald, as it is directly derived from the Latin word meaning 'the one in the middle.' Oswald throws himself into

The work of Edward Poitras has been included in many important group exhibitions (Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art, Canadian Pavilion at Expo '86) and almost every major contemporary Native art exhibit of the last 20 years. In 1995, he represented Canada (the first Aboriginal artist to do so) at the prestigious Venice Biennale.

The 48-year-old, Regina-born Poitras is a treaty Indian of Métis ancestry and a member of the Gordon First Nation. In the late 1970s, he studied at the Indian Cultural College in Saskatoon and in the Native Arts and Communication Department of Manitou College in La Macaza, Quebec. In 1982, Poitras' pieces were included in the MacKenzie Art Gallery's “New Work by a New Generation,” one of the first exhibitions in Canada to recognize contemporary Native artists across North America.

David Earle has created a large repertoire of passionate dance works for which he has been awarded the Order of Canada. His Sacra Conversazione to Mozart's Requiem has taken his name to every continent.

Mr. Earle began dance training at the age of five. He acted for eleven years with the Toronto Children's Players, directed by Dorothy Goulding. His modern dance training began with Yone Kvietys in Toronto and he spent two years on scholarship at the Martha Graham School in New York. He danced in New York with the Jose Limon Dance Company and assisted Robert Cohan with the newly-formed London Contemporary Dance Theatre. Returning to Toronto in 1968, Mr. Earle co-founded Toronto Dance Theatre with Patricia Beatty and Peter Randazzo. He was appointed sole Artistic Director in 1987, taking the company to its first two triumphant seasons in New York and tours in Europe and Asia.