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Fool's Gold For Smart Toronto Fans of Tap By Stephen Weir  Lisa La Touche,  one of this country’s best jazz tap dancers ever has returned to Canada and is currently avoiding the virus in Calgary. Once the lockdown is over she hopes to perform her newest tap dance work  –  Fool’s Gold  - live in Toronto and maybe even one day in Trinidad, the land of her father’s birth. For now Torontonians will have to catch her online this Saturday October 3rd.  She is taking part in  the Fall For Dance North’s   “ The Flip Side ” Project  and has created an eight minute tap dance for the Toronto online and live event.    The Festival began earlier this week and runs until October 18. LA Touché along with five other Canadian dance choreographers and troupes, are performing world premier dances live on stage and on tape this weekend. This 2 pm ticketed live-stream event www.ffdnorth.com    from the Harbourfront Fleck Theatre...

--> Nicole Brooks’ Obeah Opera 2019 previewed in Toronto Dance Festival   By Stephen Weir When close to 3,000 people stomp, cheer, and clap in an almost sold-out theatre, it makes for a volcano of sound.   And, for the 22 women on stage inside the downtown Toronto Sony Centre, it was an opportunity to erupt in dance and song one as they left the stage. On Friday night, the cast of Nicole Brooks’ Obeah Opera 2019, hand slapped, foot stomped, danced and sang acapella with such passion that the audience almost believed they were peeking back in time to the Salem Massachusetts  Witch Trials o f 1692 .   “ The word Obeah is a Caribbean term which is most connected to the word witchcraft,” explains Nicole Brooks, the multi-talented Canadian filmmaker, songstress and producer of the dance opera which was staged twice on the weekend as part of the week long Fall For Dance North festival. “The dance is based on the Salem Witchcraft Trial seen thr...