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Sudbury Dance Festival 2007
Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University, Sudbury ON
Saturday November 10, 2007 @ 5:30 PM

Ontario International Development Agency organized Sudbury 2nd Annual Dance Festival 2007 to support Ontario Village Global Program. More than 200 performers participate for the event. Dr. Brain Lynch was the emcee for the event and Canada World Youth volunteers and hands on with OIDA to organize the event. Company G Performers, Spirit of World Drumming, Funky Grrove Dance Program, Nickle City Cloggers, Apsaras Dance Group, 4 Little Paws, Sudbury Irish Association, Diane Boulais Dance Studio, Super Stack Swing Dance, participated for the event. Singer Stewart Doran entertained the audience. All proceeds from this event go to Ontario Village Global Program.

Board of Judges

Professor Ulrich Sikora
Ulrich Sikora holds a B.A. (McMaster), as well as an M.A. (McMaster/Free University of Berlin), and Ph.D. (ABD-University of Toronto). He has taught English and German Literature and Language as well as Theatre in various institutions, including McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and the United World College in Norway. He has also directed many productions and led theatre workshops in Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland and Japan. His special interest is Theatre Censorship. He has taught Theatre History II, Theatre in Education and Directing in the Theatre at Thorneloe University. In 2004-2005, he is teaching Introductory German and German Culture and Civilization at Laurentian University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Theatre in Education, Directing in Theatre, and the theatre component of the Inter Arts BFA programme at Thorneloe University.

Colin Haywood
Colin Hayward was born in Scotland and raised in London, England, before emigrating to Canada as a teenager. When he received a Canada Council Fellowship, he moved back to England to study theatre there for three years before moving on to California and eventually returning to Canada to pursue a career in acting and lighting design. For the last dozen years, Colin Hayward has been the Coordinator of the Technical Theatre Programme at Cambrian College and directs most of the plays staged by Black Dog Productions. For those who have not seen it, his latest production, Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters is running for another week at the Cambrian Theatre on the Barrydowne Campus. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Other recent directing credits include Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, Ron Harwood’s The Dresser and Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor. Colin also freelances as a lighting designer and fully licensed pyro technician. When he has time, he turns to sailing, international travel and writing fiction and has published numerous short stories set in countries around the world. Currently his book of travel stories, Other Times, Other Places is in bookstores and has been listed for two literary awards.

Dr.Bhushan Sood :
Dr. Bhushan Sood is Dental surgeon and financial consultant and exhibits his dynamism by handling multiple tasks at the same time. He has a passion for Music, Dance, Theatre, Arts and Culture. He is a professional singer, poet and music composer. He was awarded with “Best all round performer” during his academic career in Dental School. He is Fellow of International College of Dentists (USA) and Pierre Fauchard Acedemy. He received “Service Award” from Government of Ontario. He also received “Sood Ratnam Award” 2007, which means a jewel in the community. Dr. Sood the president of Canin Multicultural Association. He also board member of India a Rainbow Community Services of Peel, Mississauga. He is the president of Board of Judges at the Ontario Dance Festival held in Toronto. He organized many success full Dance events and competitions for various charities in Canada and overseas. His most successful event was “Disco Dance Competition” December 1984 in Chandigarh, India.

S. Inderjote (Joyti):
Inderjote (Joyti) completed her Bachelor degree in Education in India. Joyti also is a teachers’ trainer, fine artist, and fashion dress designer. She headed department of Economics at an Advanced Teachers College in Nigeria. She is the advisor for Sood Councill of North America and vice president of Canin Multicultural Assocation, Ontario. Her voluntary activities are manifold including teaching to blind students at the Institute for Blind. She was an adjudicator for Ontario 2^nd Annual Dance Festival in Toronto May 2007.

Results

Diane Boulais Dance Studio - Gold - Sudbury Mayor Challenge Trophy
Company G Performers - Silver - Tsunami Rx Trophy
Company G Performers - Bronze - OIDA Trophy

Sudbury Dance Festival Platinum Award - Alana Drysdale
Sudbury Dance Festival Diamond Award - Company G Performers

Excellence Performance - Aly Lavellle - Gold
Excellence Performance - Priya Rameshkanth - Gold

“Dance does not leave behind clearly identifiable physical artifacts such as stone tools, hunting implements or cave painting. It is not possible to say when dance became part of human culture. Dance has certainly been an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since before the birth of the earliest human civilizations. Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from circa 3300 BC and the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka paintings in India. One of the earliest structured uses of dance may have been in the performance and telling of myths. Before the introduction of written languages, dance was one of the methods of passing these stories down from generation to generation. Another early use of dance may have been as a precursor to ecstatic trance states in healing rituals. Dance is still used for this purpose by cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert"