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The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced that Tono received a Dora Mavor Moore Award which honours excellence in the performing arts.

Tono team after a press conference in Shanghai, China.

"Our heartfelt thanks for bringing this amazing performance to our school. You had the entire audience spell-bound! The kids and the teachers were all still raving about this today. It was brilliant! Thanks so much, thanks a million! Thanks until the end of time!"
- Teacher Carla Pauls, Exshaw staff and students, Canadian Rockies Public Schools

After 144 performances, Raven has landed at last in Toronto. Our impressive five months on the road saw 62 communities, from urban centres to remote villages and everything in between. One of our final stops was on the isles of Haida Gwaii, where we spent a magical week. From Prince Rupert, we boarded the overnight ferry and checked into our berths. Seven hours to cross the Hecate Strait, and we arrived early morning in Skidegate, continuing our early morning path up to Masset, which lies on the northern shores of Haida Gwaii.

On the islands of Haida Gwaii, we saw ravens of such size as we’d never seen before. None was more special to us, however, than the white raven, memorialized in the Port Clements Museum. Either a genetic rarity or a bird from the time before Raven turned black, this bird held a particular magic over the people who knew him. The only one of its kind on these 1,884 islands, the white Raven was well known and beloved by the residents of Port Clements; so much so, in fact, that they erected this sign: CAUTION! WHITE RAVEN X-ING! Sadly, in 1997, this unique animal was electrocuted.

Toronto, June 2, 2010 - At a press conference held today at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced nominations for the 31st Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto.

Red Sky's Tono was nominated for a Dora Award for our performances at the Fleck Dance Theatre as part of the Luminato Festival.

In May 2010, we toured Tono to World Expo 2010 Shanghai in China. We arrived to a sunny Shanghai which is located in the middle of the coast of mainland China, and sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River. This is bustling city where east meets west since 1842.

Location:
Factory Theatre, Rehearsal Hall
125 Bathurst Street (Bathurst/Adelaide)
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Red Sky Performance will hold a general audition in search of dancers and actors to participate in our upcoming seasons and highly successful productions. For information on our productions and upcoming projects, please visit our production page.

Very, very early one morning in May, the Raven cast was up before the sun, on the way to the airport. Our eventual destination: Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, home of the University of Illinois and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. We had been invited to perform four shows over two days in one of the Center’s four main performance spaces – we were situated in the beautiful Colwell Playhouse Theatre, seating capacity of 674.

Another two months have flown by and Raven is still on the road. Red Sky spent March and April in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and British Columbia, visiting schools and venues including Kenyano College in Fort McMurray, Esplanade Theatre in Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre in Moose Jaw, Festival Place in Sherwood Park, Port Theatre in Nanaimo, Max Cameron Theatre in Powell River, and Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

Red Sky Performance proudly announces that its highly acclaimed Tono- a visually brilliant dance and live music creation that connects the world Indigenous cultures of Canada, Mongolia and China wil perform at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai in China from May 5-9, 2010. Red Sky has the prestigious honour of performing at the Opening Gala of the Canadian Pavilion on May 8, 2010 at 7:30pm plus four performances.