Past Events & Workshops
Photos and video clips of past events and workshops will appear here as they become available.
January 25-27, 2005.
William LAU returns to the School By The Water with dance workshops for their students.
Harbourfront Centre. 235 Queens Quay West.
March, 2005.
Chinese dance performance-workshop with Jeffrey CHAN, Emily CHEUNG, and William LAU
Winters College, York University.
April 19-22, 2005.
A week-long performance-workshop on Peking opera.
Ohio University School of Dance. Athens, Ohio.
Click on the image to the left to watch a video clip of Ohio students practising some basic movements in Peking opera.
April 28, 2005.
The collective brings Peking opera to New York City's Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Master SONG Chang Rong, Ms YANG Li Li, and William LAU will be in performance.
May 1-8, 2005.
Peking opera workshops with Citadel Theatre at the beautiful Banff Centre.
May 14, 2005.
William LAU performs in Acces Asie's 7 Moments - a multimedia, multidisciplinary, improvisational one-day only webcast event spanning Montreal and Toronto simultaneously. Acces Asie is also known as Montreal's Asian Heritage Festival.
May 21-29, 2005.
The collective takes young Asian-Canadian dancers on a mini-tour of Toronto public libraries to perform Asian tales and legends for youth. Presented in partnership with the City of Toronto Culture Division and in affiliation with the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Toronto Asian Heritage Month)
May 26, 2pm. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham Road; May 30, 2pm. Albion Library, 1515 Albion Road; May 31, 2pm. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch Ave. West; June 1, 2pm. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells Road.
The program is intended for young audiences but everyone is welcome.
May 31, 2005.
Join us at the official launch of our new trilingual media-rich website. RSVP by sending us an email or leaving us a message by phone.
11:30 am - 1:30 pm. Remarks will be made at noon. Light refreshments.
Multicultural History Society of Ontario. 43 Queen's Park Crescent East.
July 22-31, 2005.
A tribute to the famous Madam DAI Ai Lian at the Harbourfront Dim Sum Festival. Not to be missed!! Sure to be yum yum. For details, please read the official press release.
September 11 - 16, 2005.
Peking opera workshops for professionals with Wen Wei Dance Company in Vancouver, BC.
For more details, please call 604-898-8807 or email vicustare@gmail.com.
September 17, 2005.
Community workshop open to the public as part of New Works' Dance Allsorts program.
Free. For more information, contact New Works, 677 Davie Street, 7th Floor.
November 3, 2005.
William Lau and Minh Ta perform an excerpt from the Peking opera "The Lonely Widow" at the annual SooRyu Festival. For box office and other info, visit Korean Dance Studies Society of Canada's website.
February 3-4, 2006.
Our major spring production! Spring Lanterns II: A Glimpse of Chinese Dance Back By Popular Demand! A mixed program showcasing the diversity and richness of Chinese dance. Featuring new Canadian adaptations of traditional works, and new choreography by Hari Krishnan and Emily Cheung. Al Green Theatre, at the Miles Nadal JCC. Southwest corner of Bloor and Spadina. 8:00pm show. Reception afterwards.
February 13, 2006.
Peking opera with everyone's favourite valentine, William Lau. Noon to 2:00pm. Leigha Lee Browne Theatre, U of T Scarborough Campus. For details, contact the Cultura l Affairs Office.
February 24-5, 2006.
Peking opera make-up demonstration. Part of the 8th Annual KalaNidhi International Dance Festival. Premiere Dance Theatre. For tickets, please call 416-973-4000.
April 14-19, 2006.
William Lau and Helen Yung return to the Banff Centre to assist Edmonton's Citadel Theatre with a new production, "The Forbidden Phoenix", by Marty Chan.
May 6, 2006.
Hundred Chinese Opera Flowers Pavilion
Papermill Theatre, Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum
67 Pottery Road, Toronto, ON (west of Broadview Ave.
FREE admission. Limited seating, please arrive early. Free on-site parking.
Presented in partnership with the City of Toronto Culture Division and with the assistance of the Chinese Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario), Inc.
May 13, 2006.
Ontario Pulse Youth Dance Conference. Evening performance of "Flirting On The Battlefield."
May, 2006.
Free Peking opera workshop on voice and movement for students age 10-12. Cedarbrae Public Library. Limited enrolment. For more details please contact the library.
June 8-11, 2006.
Performances at the Cross-Gender Festival. More details to come.
July 17-21, 2006.
William Lau gives a lecture at the World Dance Alliance (WDA). First initiated in Hong Kong in 1990, WDA has over 500 members today, serving as a voice for dance and dancers around the world, encouraging the exchange of ideas and awareness of dance in all its forms. For more details, visit their website.
August 13-18, 2006.
William Lau performs as part of the Cultural Programme at the XVI International AIDS Conference, hosted this year in Toronto. For more information, please visit AIDS 2006.