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Performing Artists
Dance, Music,
Performance Art, Theatre,
Venues
DANCE
Kingston School of Dance
J.K. Tett Centre
370 King St. We
Kingston
Telephone: 613.548.8272
Email: [email protected]
For choreography confidence, look to the Kingston
School of Dance where learning Classical Ballet
(Cecchetti Syllabus), Pointe and Jazz is done
in small classes, to live piano accompaniment and
with professional instructors.
5,6,7,8 Dance Studio
259 Queen St, Kingston
Telephone: 613.547.5678
[email protected]
For those just learning jazz or hip hop to the advanced
classical ballerina, 5 6 7 8 Dance Studio offers workshops
all year, including the summer and also offers acting
and singing classes.
Bailinho Dos Acores -- Azores Islands Dance Group
Group
Contact Information
Address Our Lady of Fatima Parish Roman Catholic Church
588 Division St
Kingston, ON K7K 4B6
Folklore dance groups representing
the Azores Islands and the mainland "Dricanaf Do
Minho". Uses the Portuguese Hall for practices
and performances. Performs for Providence Manor, Extendicare
Areas Served Frontenac County ; Kingston
Eligibility All welcome
Application Dance demonstrations can be arranged by
phone
Fees None
Languages English ; Portuguese
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Canadian United Kingdom Dance Club
Description A ballroom dancing club
which aims to promote the art and pleasure of old time,
sequence, and line dancing. Instruction and programs
are available upon request.
Sup. Description Holds socials at RCAF Club, church
halls and other locations.
Eligibility All welcome
I've Got Rhythm School of Dance
6 Speers Boulevard,
Amherstview Heritage Square
Telephone: 613.634.0536
email: [email protected]
Learn
ballet, tap, jazz, pre-dance as well as limbering
and theatre classes. There are no registration fees
and you will work with caring and qualified instructors.
Kingston Classical Ballet School
Telephone: 613.384.8371
Offering tap, Jazz, Modern and Pre-dance skills
Leisa's School of Dance
31 SteveFonyo Drive
613.544.4481
Maky Ukranian Dance Ensemble
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Mind, Body and Soul Dance and Theatre Company
Monica Morrow, Director
(613) 536-5231
MBS Dance and Pilates Centre,
300 Bath Rd, Kingston ON K7M 4X4
The MBS Dance and Music Theater Company
is in its 5th year at its mother location in Kingston,
On. This company has put on four productions and will
begin working on its 5th production and begin their
tour in April.
This program draws students from as far as Ottawa to
Belleville to train in this environment. This program
has helped the students begin their careers in the performing
arts industry.
Many of the students are currently auditioning and with
their training are now working in commercials, theater
work, print work and are being accepted into post secondary
institutions for the performing arts.
Queen's Highland Dance Club
President: Lesley Ruthven
email: [email protected]
The Highland Dance Club endeavours
to teach Highland Dancing, a Scottish tradition unique
to Queen's, to students, faculty & staff members.
It is a fun, healthy form of exercise and depending
on the abilities of the class, a total of six different
dances are taught.
Queen's Breakdancing Club
President: Jonathan James
email: [email protected]
Known as "Qkids, the newly sanctioned Queen's Recreational
Breakdance Club is designed to provide an outlet for
breakdancers in the Queen's Community to practice, perform
and learn more about the culture behind breakdancing.
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Queen's University Dance Instructions
Recreation Coordinator: Brenda Willis
Tel: (613) 533-6289
E-mail: [email protected]
BALLROOM DANCE Learn how to do the
Fox Trot, English and Viennese Waltz, Tango, Rumba and
the Cha Cha.
HIGHLAND DANCE This class provides an introduction for
beginners and intermediates. Dancers will learn the
basic steps and movements including, Highland Fling
and Sword Dance.
SALSA DANCING Feel the Latin beat! This class provides
an introduction for beginners to the moves and grooves
of Salsa. You and your partner will be a hit in the
clubs when you learn to swing those hips.
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (Kingston Ontario
Branch)
TK Danceworx
McAdoo Park
Kingston
613.384.0795
For Tap, Jazz and Ballet lessons, offering the chance
to perform and compete with your new skills.
Mind, Body and Soul Dance and Theatre Company
Monica Morrow, Director
(613) 536-5231
MBS Dance and Pilates Centre
300 Bath Rd, Kingston ON K7M 4X4
The MBS Dance and Music Theater Company
is in its 5th year at its mother location in Kingston,
On. This company has put on four productions and will
begin working on its 5th production and begin their
tour in April.
This program draws students from as far as Ottawa to
Belleville to train in this environment. This program
has helped the students begin their careers in the performing
arts industry.
Many of the students are currently auditioning and with
their training are now working in commercials, theater
work, print work and are being accepted into post secondary
institutions for the performing arts.
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MUSIC
Kingston Jazz Society
Craig Jones(613) 545-0761 or
Dave Coon (613) 546-6018 or
email: Kingston Jazz Society
The Kingston Jazz Society is dedicated to the preservation
and appreciation of jazz music as a distinctive North
American art form in the Limestone City.
The Kingston Jazz Society mounts regular monthly sessions
featuring the finest jazz instrumentalists and vocalists
from the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal and New York City axis.
In recent years we have featured some giants in the
Canadian jazz scene including: Oliver Jones, Peter Appleyard,
Jim Galloway, Rob McConnell, Fraser MacPherson, Ed Bickert,
Dave Young, , Guido Basso, Ranee Lee, Richard Ring,
Timewarp, Charlie Mountford, Arlene Smith, Doug Riley,
Reg Schwager, Ian Bargh, Tabby Johnson, Kathryn Moses,
Bernie Senesky, Lorne Lofsky -- the list goes on.
In addition the KJS also features up-and-coming jazz
talents, some of whom are famous on the world jazz circuit
but are yet to make their presence felt in Canada, including
Levon Ichkhanian, Kevin Barrett, William Carn, Lina
Allemano, Duncan Cooper, Del Dacko, The Jivewires, Los
Gringos ... and on and on.
The Kingston Jazz Society also nurtures and encourages
local musicians, including Susan Graf, Andy Poole, Dave
Barton, Greg Runions and Mike Cassells.
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Kingston Symphony Association
Andrea Haughton, General Manager or
Glen Fast, Conductor
11 Princess Street, Suite 206
P.O Box 1616
Kingston, ON K7L 5C8
Box Office: (613) 530-2050
Contact by email.
Website: www.kingstonsymphony.on.ca
There is nothing like the emotional
power of a live musical performance. Join the Kingston
Symphony for its full season of music from September
to May, and the summer spectacular at Fort Henry. Hear
the best of Kingston's musicians as well as well-known
Canadian artists perform for you.
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The Melos Choral Ensemble
David Cameron, Music Director
Contact: David Cameron
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.melos.ca
www.melos.ca
View their Bio Page.
Founded in 1984 by Music Director
David Cameron as an ensemble of sixteen singers, Melos
expanded in 2000 to become The Melos Choral Ensemble,
a mixed-voice choir of 40-50 members. Melos performs
four concerts per year, which take place at city churches
or at one of the two Kingston cathedrals. Rehearsals
are on Wednesday evenings, from September to May, at
MacCallum Hall, Chalmers United Church, and membership
is by audition.
Queen's Student Opera
Courtney Cauthon email: [email protected]
Queen's Student Opera
C/O Queen's School of Music
39 Queen's Crescent
Kingston Ontario K7L 3N6
(613) 533-2558
The Queen's Student Opera celebrates five wonderful
seasons this year and is committed to making opera accessible
to many people. This year's gala performances promise
to be a celebration of the arts as members of many artistic
groups across campus have come together to enhance the
production. These groups include: The Queen's Dance
Club, The Cantabile Choir, Queen's Music students, Queen's
Drama students and Queen's Fine Arts students. Students
from these groups and more are working together to create
an evening of entertainment that will not soon be forgotten.
This year Queen's Student Opera is proud to present
a fantastic double bill featuring Michael Nyman's The
Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, an opera based on
the neurological case studies of Oliver Saks. Along
with this opera that documents, through music, the degenerative
process of the mind we will be featuring the classic
fairy tale Hänsel und Gretel set to music by Englebert
Humperdinck. Both performances promise to be entertaining
as they bring together music, drama, and art.
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THEATRE
The Barefoot Players
Dan Dumsha, Project Manager
(613) 453-7837 or for further information contact Theatre
Kingston at (613) 544-2021
For the past two summers, Theatre Kingston, in conjunction
with Queen's University, has sponsored a group of students
to provide both entertainment and an interactive workshop
series for young people.Both the 2000 and the 2001 seasons
provided a wealth of opportunities for Kingston's youth
and earned rave reviews from all members of the Kingston
Community.
Last year the Players presented to the community, Tall
Tales from the Brother's Grimm, an original and hilarious
collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales adapted and directed
by Theatre Kingston's artistic director, Dr. Craig Walker.
Walker is directing this year's Barefoot Players in
some more of his newly adapted Tales.
Partners in Crime Murder Mystery Dinners
Ila Dalcourt
Partners in Crime is a company of writers, actors and
production staff based in Kingston, Ontario, and dedicated
to the presentation of high-quality, interactive, murder
mystery dinners. You provide the location and the meal,
we provide a complete, original mystery.
Purple Dragon Puppet Troupe
Annie Milne
PO Box 1853
Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3V2
Day Phone: (613) 542-9988
The Troupe is well known in Kingston for their fabulous
performances, with enormous puppets and live music that
captivate people of all ages.
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Queen's Performing Arts
Myrna Raymond, Departmental Assistant
Box Office: (613) 533-2558T
he Queen's Performing Arts Office brings for your entertainment
a variety of the top touring professional performers
in music and dance. Whether international or Canadian
artists, you are guaranteed an opportunity to enjoy
glittering performances at a price that is most affordable.
Queen's University Drama Department
Lee Atkinson
Department of Drama
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
(613) 533-2104
The Queen's University Department of Drama, established
in 1947, is one of North America's oldest university
programs devoted to the study of drama and theatre.
In its fifty years of existence, it has educated and
trained hundreds of Canadian and inter-national theatre
artists, practitioners, and teachers. Their contributions
to theatre and theatre education in Canada, the United
States and around the world have been immense.
At Queen's, we look at drama as a starting point for
understanding human behavior in all its aspects. We
believe that drama has always been the central form
of human creative expression, and that its artistic,
literary, and performance activities provide one of
the most effective approaches to understanding the world
and individual experience.
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Rogue and Peasant Theatre Co.
.Phone: (613)530-2050
Web Site: www.roguetheatre.org
Seat of Your Pants Theatre Company
TSOYPTC
plays regularly at the Baby Grand Studio Theatre, 218
Princess Street, Kingston, ON.
Theatre Kingston
Dr. Craig Walker, Artistic Director
or
Kathryn MacKay, General Manager
Box 21004 - 445 Princess Postal Outlet
Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 1G3
Subscription Orders: (613) 544-2021
Theatre Kingston
Productions are in the Baby Grand Studio Theatre
218 Princess Street, 2nd Floor Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Grand Theatre Box Office: (613) 530-2050
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Domino Theatre
J.K. Tett Creativity Centre
370 King Street West
Kingston, ON
Since its unusual beginning between feature films at
the old Odeon Theatre, Domino has grown to a full seven-play
winter season. Each season offers an appealing mix of
drama, comedy and mystery from the Canadian and world
stages.
Domino is truly a "community" theatre. People
from all walks of life pool their skills to present
productions of a consistently high calibre.
As a member of the Eastern Ontario Drama League and
Theatre Ontario, Domino is actively involved in the
Ontario amateur theatre community and has acted as host
to several annual festivals. Many Domino people and
productions have been recognized for their excellence
at the regional and provincial levels.
Starting this fall, Domino Theatre will celebrate its
50th anniversary season. As part of the celebrations,
Domino plans several special events. They include a
gala retrospective of Domino's past to open the season,
the production of a new children's musical, The Icicle
Princess, during the Christmas season, and seven performances
of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, each with a different
cast of familiar Kingston actors.
We will host the Eastern Ontario Drama League (EODL)
full-length play festival in March, 2003, and will launch
a book on the theatre's history. And as usual they will
bring you seven top-notch plays!
After being out of service for 6 years (and despite
numerous attempts to restore it to life), Welcome Wood
Productions has come along in the Summer of 2001 to
breathe life into the Theatre. What was long known as
a movie hall has now become the hottest spot in Kingston
for live entertainment provided by the highly acclaimed
theatre company Welcome Wood Productions Inc.!!
Theatre 5
Valerie Robertson, Artistic Director
Location: J.K. Tett Creativity Centre
370 King Street West
Kingston, ON
(613) 546-5460
Mailing Address: Box 1221 Kingston, ON K7L 4Y8
Theatre 5 is a not-for-profit local theatre company
that believes in community involvement and in entertaining
audiences. Theatre 5 is the production company behind
the critically acclaimed hit comedy series Saturday
Night at the Improv.
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Thousand Islands Playhouse
Greg Wanless, Artistic Director or
Hollie Stewart, Marketing Manager
690 Charles Street South
Box 241
Gananoque, ON Canada K7G 2T8
Box Office: (613) 382-7020 Fax: (613) 382-7088
Twenty years and going strong! Now entering its 21st
season, the Thousand Islands Playhouse is the most popular
summer theatre in Eastern Ontario.
Housed in the perfect location - a lovely old structure
with deep balconies right on the St. Lawrence River,
built in 1909 by the Gananoque Canoe and Motor Club.
The almost derelict building was restored to its remembered
glory, and a ten-week season of theatre was produced.
The Playhouse has enjoyed a reputation for producing
consistently high quality professional theatre.
In addition to five regular season productions, the
Playhouse offers the Monday Night Series, six evenings
of eclectic entertainment with something for everyone.
We host a playwright's workshop, and work with area
theatre companies to bring new Canadian works to the
stage.
The Playhouse gets the kids involved too. Our Young
Company plays to over 10,000 area children at schools,
parks and festivals every year.
During the months of July and August we offer workshops
to area children in both drama and musical theatre.
With it's unrivalled ambiance and stellar productions,
the Thousand Islands Playhouse offers a truly unique
theatre-going experience.
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Welcome Wood Productions
Beau Schwartz
(613) 531-0331
Welcome Wood is a professional theatre company operating
in the Kingston and Prince Edward County. They also
produce shows at the Weave Shed in Cornwall, Ontario
and the Regent Theatre in Picton, Ontario.
Welcome Wood Productions Inc. has been in existence
since 1998 and a resident theatre company in many venues
across Eastern Ontario.
The company is comprised of a small but determined group
of multi-talented individuals with ages ranging 17 to
70, who raise versatility and teamwork from 'required
business concepts' to 'virtuoso artistry.'
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VENUES
The Grand Theatre
Cliff Edwards, Manager
218 Princess Street, Kingston, ON
Box Office: (613) 530-2050
T he Grand Theatre was purchased by the City of Kingston
in 1962 and has been renovated and upgraded extensively.
The Grand has seating for 826. There is also a smaller
theatre space, the Baby Grand, on the second floor.
Both meeting and convention space is available.
L'Octave Theatre
Francis Beaulieu, General Manger/Artistic
Director
711 Dalton Avenue
Kingston, ON K7M 8N6
(613) 546-1331
Princess Court Theatre
Beau Schwartz
394 Princess Street
Kingson, ON
(613) 531-0331
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