CanAsian Dance

🗓️ January 13 2026

🕛 8:45pm

📍Buddies in Bad Times Theatre: Tallulah’s Cabaret

🎟️ Free Event

Make Banana Cry, in partnership with CanAsian Dance, hosts Dance Talks: Parallel Works, Pluriperspectives Embodied. Four Toronto-based Asian artists will share insights, questions, and excerpts from their current practices, offering a glimpse into the vastness and complexity of what “Asianness” can encompass.

Dance Talks is an addendum event inside Tallulah’s Cabaret at Buddies, that fosters dialogue among Asian diasporic dance artists and between other artists and the public. The series encourages candid exchange, exploring both difference and common ground across lived experience, artistic practice, and perspective.

Invited Artists: .tan

MERYENDA ☀️
[snack, or in-between meal in Tagalog]

Join CanAsian Dance & for a facilitated conversation with artists from the Philippine Diaspora creating performances in response to and through the lens of diasporic experiences. 

March 23, 2025, 1pm-4 pm
(conversation at 2 pm)
Parkdale Library Auditorium (Basement)
1303 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6K 1L6
RSVP LINK IN BIO

Invited artists Ralph Escamillan, Patrick Alcedo, Candace Kumar,  Blessy Buan, & Andrew Tay, will converse with facilitators Bee Pallomina and Fran Chudnoff about their experiences as artists and scholars working in the diaspora. These invited artists and attendees will work through questions like “How are contemporary practices in conversation with traditional forms? How do we work with culture and heritage, abiding or not traditional forms? How do we curate works sensitively with awareness to contexts of migration, colonialism and modernity?” 

Snacks and beverages will be served