AUG 7-9, 2026
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The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance
304 Parliament Street
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Summerworks performance festival
At The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance
SummerWorks Performance Festival is back with a bold and intimate season of international contemporary performance!
From August 6 to 16, 2026, independent artists and companies from Tkaronto, across Canada, and around the world will take over venues and public spaces across the city for 11 days of theatre, dance, live art, music, site-engaged performance, and community-centred programming that responds to the urgency and complexity of this moment.
This year’s Festival theme, Fight | Flight brings forward urgent creative responses to this troubling moment in time. Across the 2026 Festival, artists root themselves in place, community, ancestry, and practice, while also shifting perspectives, rewriting histories, and creating new narratives through the body, exploring memory, consent, transformation, and identity, through resistance, humour, and intimacy.
Citadel + Compagnie is proud to partner with SummerWorks Performance Festival on the presentation of: Golden Rez Dog, Half of the Moon, and Tandava.
PROGRAMMING
Golden Rez Dog
Dance
Marcus Merasty
FRI AUG 7 @ 6:00 PM
SAT AUG 8 @ 2:00 PM
SAT AUG 8 @ 9:00 PM
45 Minutes
In Golden Rez Dog, a human goes through an animal transformation. Inspired by the Cree poem The Old Rez Dog (Francine Merasty) and The Golden Ass (Lucius Apuleius), you’ll witness a somatic investigation rooted in a blending of traditional/contemporary Indigenous dance forms and ideologies; sharing stories and reflecting on the transference of intergenerational knowledge.
half of the moon
Theatre
Volcano
FRI AUG 7 @ 8:00 PM
60 Minutes
A circus arrives at the edge of a city. A tightrope stretches across the dark. For a moment, anything feels possible. Volcano presents the first English language performance of Half of the Moon by Roland Schimmelpfennig, a haunting meditation on magic, expectation, and what remains when the impossible arrives, and yet somehow fails to arrive at the same time.
tandavA
Dance / Poetry / Sound
Nova Bhattacharya & Suvendrini Lena
SAT AUG 8 @ 6:00 PM
SUN AUG 9 @ 4:00 PM
45 Minutes
How can we honour the disappeared?
Set against events of the Sri Lankan civil war, and inspired by the verses of the 6th-century female poet-saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar. Tandava asks how we honour the disappeared, proposing a ritual-infused space for remembrance, justice, and collective healing.