Toronto's new Luminato Festival, which earlier this year, in its inaugural run, presented the world premiere of Philip Glass's Book of Longing, has unveiled its 2008 program, and the Globe and Mail calls it "an ambitious agenda of dance, music, theatre, film, and visual arts." On the bill for the June 6–15 event are the Canadian premieres of Nunavut by Kronos Quartet and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and Laurie Anderson's Homeland.
Toronto's new Luminato Festival of Arts and Creativity, which earlier this year, in its inaugural run, presented the world premiere of Philip Glass's Book of Longing (based on poetry by Leonard Cohen), has unveiled its program for 2008, and the Globe and Mail calls it "an ambitious agenda of dance, music, theatre, film, and visual arts."
On the bill for the June 6–15 event, which will focus in large part on Canadian artists, are that country's premieres of Nunavut by Kronos Quartet and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, as well as Laurie Anderson's Homeland, which the Guardian has called "breathtaking." Also at the festival will be a performance by the Alberta Ballet of The Fiddle and the Drum, a collaboration between Joni Mitchell and the dance company's artistic director, Jean Grand-Maître.
For more information, read the Globe and Mail's preview at theglobeandmail.com or visit the festival's site at luminato.com.
