Mairéad Filigate on Danny Grossman Dance Company
Mairéad Filigate speaks on her experience with Danny Grossman Dance Company. From 2003-08 I was a member of the Danny…
Olivia Arcangeli: Swallowing Clouds
Swallowing Clouds Assistant Facilitator Olivia Arcangeli shares thoughts and sentiments on her experience working on our Swallowing Clouds program. ~~~…
Join us this August for Swallowing Clouds™ Online Dance Camp!
Come dance with us! Join us for a free online dance arts workshop this summer! After a super successful online…
Morgyn Aronyk-Schell: Swallowing Clouds
Morgyn Aronyk-Schell: Swallowing Clouds Hello all! The world has no doubt been unpredictable and unfamiliar these days. I hope you’re…
Spring Awakening – Activity Four
Spring Awakening - Activity Four Follow to the rhythms of the music, it’s time to dance and explore! We are…
Register to Swallowing Clouds Online Summer Dance Camp
Come dance with us! Join us for a free online dance arts workshop this summer! We have missed you and…
Spring Awakening – Activity Three
Spring Awakening - Activity Three The third Spring Awakening activity is now available! Designed for creative exploration today, we invite…
Spring Awakening – Activity Sheet 2!
We hope you’ve found a new groove, and perhaps had a few creative explorations on the way there! For our…
Support tiger princess dance projects! Announcing our NEW Patreon Page
Announcing our new Patreon tiers to give you exclusive access to our digital content creations and a behind-the-scenes look at…
Spring Awakening – Swallowing Clouds
Craving some creative activities to explore while you and your kids are inside or close to home playing in…
DanceWeekend’20: Time Travel while Standing Still
tiger princess dance projects is excited to present our latest dance creation, Time Travel while Standing Still at DanceWeekend'20 on…
Support princess productions this GivingTuesday!
princess productions is excited to be entering a year focused on dance education! This GivingTuesday, we are asking our donors…
Chenise Mitchell: Swallowing Clouds Apprentice #2
Time feels like a song Space in my mind like a sail boat at sea Time for yourself, that one…
Olivia Arcangeli: Swallowing Clouds Apprentice #2
What I find unique about Swallowing Clouds is the equality that is built into the program. Whether you are a…
Call for Swallowing Clouds Apprentice Facilitators (SCAFs)
tiger princess dance projects is seeking Swallowing CloudsTM Apprentice Facilitators (SCAFs) with an interest in working in the arts and…
Chenise Mitchell: Swallowing Clouds Apprentice
First day nerves. Music always comforts me and these kids had rhythm! The rhythms of snow fall Of snow boots…
Olivia Arcangeli: Swallowing Clouds Apprentice
Some inspiration from my week at Maria A. Shchuka Library…. The minute I looked around the room in our first…
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
Photo: Marie Lambin-Gagnon, taken by Irvin Chow dance: made in canada / fait au canada (d:mic/fac) is looking for volunteers for…
Launch Party
Monday, May 6th, 2019 7:00PM - 10:00PM Arraymusic (155 Walnut Avenue, Toronto ON) LIVE PERFORMANCES BY DJ Lulu Wei,…
Sierra Chin Sawdy: Swallowing Clouds Apprentice
Reflecting on the past and looking forward to the future As what has felt like a never-ending year comes to…
DanceFilm Submission
Photo: 'Wake' by Katherine Macnaughton, Emmanuel Hessler, Performer: Ashley Werhun CALL FOR FILMS Deadline Extended: Thursday, March 28, 2019 dance:…
That’s a Wrap at DanceWeekend’19 featuring THAT MOMENT WHEN
Thank you to everyone who came out to see an excerpt of our duet, THAT MOMENT WHEN at DanceWeekend'19, choreographed by Yvonne…
Happy Lunar New Year!
What a year it has been for princess productions in 2018! We were invited by CINARS as one of their…
‘THAT MOMENT WHEN’ previews at DanceWeekend’19!
We are thrilled to announce that an excerpt showing of our latest creation, THAT MOMENT WHEN choreographed by Yvonne Ng is part of DanceWeekend'19, presented…
Patreon – Wéi
It's a Patreon first for us! Our team is working hard at developing our new production, Wéi - 成为 and we need your help…
The Labrador Project
It has been an inspiring journey working with these talented emerging young filmmakers in all four Labrador communities as part…
Consider princess productions on Giving Tuesday!
Mark your calendars! This year, Giving Tuesday is on November 27th, a day where charities, companies, and individuals, join together to share commitments,…
Work-in-progress studio showing of Wéi
It has been an exciting creative journey that began with these two questions: What makes us who we are? When…
Sierra Chin Sawdy: Swallowing Clouds Apprentice
Inspired by my week at Albion Library. Swallowing Clouds made me feel … … eager to engage in a week…
Call for Swallowing Clouds Apprentice Facilitators (SCAFs)
tiger princess dance projects is seeking Swallowing Clouds™ Apprentice Facilitators (SCAFs) with an interest in working in the arts and…
Wéi
Last fall, Yvonne and collaborating artists Mairéad Filgate, Kaitlin Standeven, Johanna Bergfelt, Luke Garwood, and Irvin Chow, and composer Nick Storring…
Update: The Labrador Project
Update: We’ve wrapped up the first phase of our multi-disciplinary arts collaboration; The Labrador Project. The tiger princess dance projects team…
Innovative Exemplary Practice Award
We are thrilled to announce that St. Jude Elementary School won the Innovative Exemplary Practice Award through our arts education program, Moving…
‘Stone Velvet’ is going on tour!
We are going on tour in February as part of 3,2,1 Dance! Stone Velvet will be performed at the Flato Markham Theatre…
Making Dance Maps: mining the source
Both dance works—Zhōng Xīn and In Search of the Holy Chop Suey—began with a simple question: what if we were all given the…
Dance @ The Registry Theatre!
We are excited to kick-off the new year in Kitchener! Starting on January 22nd, we will be offering week-long workshops at The…
Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
We are currently at the beautiful Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity in Alberta. We are here with collaborating artists Mairéad…
The Labrador Project
We're excited to announce our new multidisciplinary arts collaboration project, The Labrador Project, that will bring together four remote communities…
Yvonne is CADA’s member of the month!
Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Ontario Chapter August member of the month is Yvonne! Check out her interview HERE
Review: Zhōng Xīn at Dancing on the Edge 2017
At the beginning of July, tiger princess dance projects reunited Mairéad Filgate, Luke Garwood, and Irvin Chow to perform Zhōng Xīn…
Review: Weave … part one at Dancing on the Edge 2017
At the beginning of July, Yvonne performed her solo Weave...part one at Dancing on the Edge Festival 2017 in Vancouver, BC.…
Dancing On The Edge
photo: Cylla von Tiedemann of Irvin Chow, Mairéad Filgate and Luke Garwood tiger princess dance projects has been invited to…
Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominations
photo: Cylla von Tiedemann We are thrilled that tiger princess dance projects', 'In Search of the Holy Chop Suey,' presented by DanceWorks…
Artistic Director recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in Dance
photo: Sean Howard The Toronto Arts Foundation Signature Awards celebrate artistic excellence and recognize the contributions of artists and arts supporters,…
Janaki Banting: Swallowing Clouds Apprentice
I think that one of my favourite thing about performing arts is seeing a group of people work together to…
Mountain Adventures: Dancing My Life, Meredith Kenny
Do you ever decide to do something, half plan it, and figure you’ll see what happens when you get there? …
Meet Marie-Josée Chartier, Outside Eye/Creative Facilitator
Interview by Nicole Rosove Artistic director of Chartier Danse, Marie-Josée Chartier is a multi-faceted artist who moves easily between the…
Meet Artistic Collaborator, Johanna Bergfelt
A native of Sweden, Johanna Bergfelt graduated from The Royal Swedish Ballet School in 1989. She has an extensive performance…
PICTURE US! A cross generational project at Richview Library
JOIN PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS IN A FUN AND EXCITING COMMUNITY BASED ARTS PROGRAM AT RICHVIEW BRANCH Open to older adults ages…
A Poem by SCAF, Wing Sheung Chan
Our wonderful Swallowing Clouds Apprentice Facilitator (SCAF), Wing Sheung Chan, was inspired to share the following poem and photos at the…
Ephemeral: A Blog Post by Artistic Collaborator, Luke Garwood
First off, I’d like to say thank you to Yvonne, DUO, and the whole tiger princess dance projects team for…
Meet Artistic Associate & Collaborator, Mairéad Filgate
A graduate of the Etobicoke School of the Arts and the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Mairéad Filgate was proud…
Company Feature: Meet Lighting Designer, Arun Srinivasan
We are thrilled to have Arun Srinivasan work with us yet again this season! Arun is a lighting designer for…
SCAF feature: Lena Binnington
We have a wonderful group of Swallowing Clouds Apprentice Facilitators (SCAFs) working with our children and youth in Toronto's libraries this…
Company Feature: Meet Dance Artist, Irvin Chow
Irvin Chow did not dance before he walked. He did not spend his childhood dreaming of becoming a star. Chow chose…
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Happy Valley Goose Bay
*Ding*Ding*Ding* The Happiest-Town-Name Award goes to....Happy Valley Goose Bay!! Happy Valley Goose Bay...now say it slow...Happy Valley Goose Bay...now fast...Happy…
Meet Your Local Librarian: Marion Scott
Now that we are full swing into fall with its glorious colours and early nights we are also well into…
Yvonne Ng returns from Singapore festival – da:ns 2015
Written by: Una Wabinski Photos by: Jeff Low Founder, Yvonne Ng just returned back to Canada from her home visit…
Call for Swallowing Clouds Apprentice Facilitators (SCAFs)
Photo by: Zhenya Cerneacov tiger princess dance projects is seeking Swallowing Clouds Apprentice Facilitators (SCAFs) with an interest in working in…
The amazing Emily Macrae
Emily Macrae is another one of our wonderfully creative Swallowing Clouds facilitators in training. Here's a little bit about Emily…
Magnetic Fields Returns
Luke Garwood and Mairéad Filgate in Magnetic Fields by Yvonne Ng Over the past two weeks, Yvonne, Luke and I have returned…
Swallowing Clouds
Photo: Outreach at Coxwell/Danforth Library Now in its fourth year, Swallowing Clouds is in full swing this spring, having finished…
Happy Poetry Month!
We recently made a wonderful new discovery: April is poetry month! What a lovely event to celebrate and what better…
Swallowing Clouds: March Break
YOLO! Participants of Swallowing Clouds at Palmerston Public Library, March Break 2015; Photo: Mairéad Filgate Last month tiger princess dance…
On Soloing
A gifted maker and performer of the solo dance, Yvonne Ng answers some questions about the art of making solos…
Thank You!
Linnea Wong in Metamorphosis of a Solitary female Phoenix, photo by Haley Friesen. A message from TPDP Artistic Director Yvonne…
We Can’t Wait to Share our Work with You…
By: Mairéad Filgate Opening night of Yvonne's Ng's SoloDuet at the brand new Theatre Centre is almost here! We're busy attending…
Short and Sweet Residency: A photo blog by Mairéad Filgate
Almost four months after last being in the studio together, Yvonne, Luke and I, in Honda and Megabus respectively, headed…
Call for Volunteers: SoloDuet
tiger princess dance projects presents SoloDuet: Metamorphosis of a Solitary female Phoenix & Magnetic Fields May 6 – 9 @ 8:00…
SoloDuet: Metamorphosis of a Solitary Female Phoenix & Magnetic Fields
SoloDuet: Metamorphosis of a Solitary Female Phoenix & Magnetic Fields May 6-9 @ 8pm, May 10 @ 4pm, 2014 The…
A Day in the Life
For this episode of our blog we decided to get up close and personal with Yvonne and find out what…
Yvonne on Swallowing Clouds
Swallowing Clouds is a dance-based teaching project that integrates poetry, music and visual art, and takes place in public libraries. The…
Interview flip
We turn the tables and Erin Robinsong interviews me about life as an artist. How did you come to dance?…
Erin Robinsong: Interview with an Art Maker
West coast born, Toronto-based artist Erin Robinsong has been collaborating with tiger princess dance projects over the past two years.…
And it comes to a close.
Ah, the eve after the show. Always bitter sweet. There’s a dull ache in my body (so much chugging and…
Show Week!
Show week has arrived and the air is bristling with excitement. I always think it's such a crazy phenomenon -…
FREQUENCY
We are back in rehearsals for Frequency and can't wait to share these new works. March 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th…
FREQUENCY in Residence at the Citadel
This past weekend tiger princess dance projects invaded the new theatre at the Citadel for a residency of Frequency. How…
Changing Seasons
As the air gets crisper and darkness descends a little sooner, we pull on our sweaters and reflect on an…
Mixed Repetoire with Yvonne Ng and Robert Glumbek
Join us tomorrow evening for the world premiere of choreographies by Kevin O'Day, Robert Glumbek and Tedd Robinson !! Thursday,…
Cradlesong continues…
Time flies! Here we are in March and already we've completed another week of rehearsals together for Cradlesong. We packed…
Happy Everything Everyone!
Dear Friends, Cradlesong is now on break until March at which time we will resume rehearsals for a week and…
Some rehearsal photos
Brendan and Zhenya
Processing the process
Another week of rehearsals together and the last one for a while. Zhenya has now joined our group and it…
The Space
Here we are in rehearsal. A beautiful space, full of light ... A very good place…
Cradlesong Family
We've been in rehearsals in different configurations lately, due to previous commitments; sometimes three of us, sometimes four, sometimes all.…
Cradlesong Story
Welcome to our Cradlesong story! Yvonne, Meredith, Amy, Brendan and I are happily together again in the studio in process…
July 31: Notes from the Tour Manager
Well Robert and I made our journey back home today and it seems as though the theme of nutty airport experiences…
July 29 – Performance Day
Yes- there was an Elephant! Lionel in costume An action packed performance day! This morning we were at the theatre…
Know your chairs!
Chair #3: The Consular Chair, not quite right... Chair #1: Sturdy but too small for Robert and I
July 28th
Ok, I'm getting my sea legs here -things I did expect, a bit of jetlag , 12 hour time…
July 27th
I am so happy to be here, my first full day at the festival. There are so many new sights…
Notes from the Tour Manager
Sometimes, things don't quite go as planned. This is the number one rule of going on tour, it can be…
New Collaboration
5 days to go. I thought that I would write a bit something of all things unrelated to China. (and…
SLIP at the NFB Mediatheque
My short film SLIP will be screened this week at the NFB Mediatheque as part of the A World of…
Tunes for Touring
There is so much going on it was hard to think of what to write this week. Laura suggested I…
Fading Shadows/Returning Echoes
I was thinking a bit about the work that we will be performing at the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival; Dominique…
Top 5 things we love about touring!
I thought that I would take a light hearted approach to today's blog entry and share with you tpdp's top…
Countdown to China!
Today I woke up and realized that it is about one month until we go on tour to China, I…
Open Source Forms©
It has been about a week since I returned from Pennsylvania, USA having completed my Open Source Forms© teaching certification. It has…
Summer Video News
Hello everyone, hope you enjoy our new video format! It is a work in progress, and I’m looking forward to…
Pre-Tour Rehearsals
Robert and I have been rehearsing Stone Velvet and Fading Shadows/Returning Echoes in preparation for our tour to China this…
Getting Started
Welcome to the tiger princess dance projects blog. We're just getting started, so stay tuned for updates on our activities.