Company
Artists’ Play Dance Theatre creates emotionally engaging and unpredictable performance. Under the direction of the widely versatile and dynamic dancer, choreographer and educator Elizabeth Dawn Snell, the company works in many styles of dance with equal emphasis on expression and pure physicality, the beauty and the absurdity of reality.
Artists’ Play has appeared on many stages around Toronto and across Canada. What came from a largely improvisation based collective, has now grown into a company which produces short and full length works.
Artists’ Play Dance Theatre has many moods. Movement styles range from modern, jazz, ballet and tango, while performance styles lend from silent films, physical theatre and real life.
History:
Having found it’s feet through different mediums, Artists’ Play Dance Theatre has a strong foundation based in performance.
Elizabeth founded Artists’ Play…a Cabaret! at Cervejaria Downtown in 2004 and ran their until the studio theatre was founded in east end Toronto on Carlaw Ave. For the two year anniversary Elizabeth created a structured improv with musicians, dancers, actors and a performance painter. Thus, Artists’ Play Collective was born.
After over hundreds of structured improvisational performances and many magical moments the need to recapture grew stronger.
Through the growth of the company it became clear that this company is now Artists’ Play Dance Theatre, as that is what we do.
