DanceWorks Toronto

“As rights are rolled back, bodies policed, and pressures to perform mount, LABOUR responds to a fractured world and a long history of erasure, where womxn’s labour, care, and creative force have sustained societies even as they were sexualized, infantilized, subjugated, and controlled.

LABOUR emerges from this reflection.

This physically rigorous work centres and celebrates the resilience and power of womxn.

By placing the performers at the heart of both process and dramaturgy, LABOUR challenges traditional hierarchies and dominant models of power.

Power circulates here: it is shared, shifted, and reconfigured. Friction, repetition, and duration become tools that are as political as they are aesthetic.”
- Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth, co-choreographer of LABOUR. 

LABOUR by PARTS+LABOUR is coming to The Theatre Centre, September 10-12, 2026.

Tickets are on sale now!
🎟️ $34-54, fees included.
Tickets are selling fast and you won’t want to miss this!

Presented with support from dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival dmicfac

Photo Credit: Patrick Berger
Dancer Featured: Brianna Lombardo, Lou-Anne Rousseau, Maïka Giasson, Jossua Satinée, Frédérique Rodier

Precision + Play Masterclass with David Albert-Toth

Led by co-choreographer and co-artistic director David Albert-Toth, Precision + Play is a masterclass that introduces professional dancers to the physical and compositional practices underpinning LABOUR.

📅 When: Saturday, September 12th, 2026, 10:00AM – 12:00PM
📍 Where: George Brown Polytechnic – Casa Loma Campus
💰 Cost: $25 +HST (Students $20 +HST)

Through a guided warm-up and creative exercises developed with Emily Gualtieri, the class explores groove, endurance, unruliness, and collective attention as choreographic tools.

Positioned between mastery and mess, the session invites dancers into a rigorous yet open practice that values togetherness, precision, play, and embodied intelligence.

This masterclass is recommended for university students and professional dancers.

Participants are encouraged to bring socks, shoes, kneepads, notebooks and pencils / pens.

✨Bundle both the Precision + Play masterclass, followed by the tickets to closing night of LABOUR, and to save $5 on your show ticket.

How to redeem: Register for the Precision + Play masterclass and we’ll email you a discount code for $5 off your Saturday show ticket.

First Come First Serve!

We’re opening rehearsal space for you and it’s free!

Rehearse at the Franco Bony Theatre, The Theatre Centre on September 7th, 2026.

Available time slots include:
10:00AM - 12:00PM
12:00PM - 2:00PM
2:00PM - 4:00PM
4:00PM - 6:00PM

This rehearsal space is available to choreographers looking for space to rehearse their work.

DM us your preferred time slot to claim your rehearsal space today!

LABOUR by PARTS+LABOUR
Raw, sweaty, visceral, and absurd, it rejects aesthetic politeness and imagines a shared power.

⚡The work puts at the forefront womxn’s labour and the radical forces that build, sustain, reimagine and transform.

Through unstable and yet simple rhythms, it turns the body into a site of metamorphosis, confronting today’s fragmented realities with gestures of resistance, care, and collective, celebratory force.

🗓️September 10-12, 2026
📍The Theatre Centre
🎟️ $34-54, fees included.

Presented with support from dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival. dmicfac

Photo Credit: Bobby León BOBBY LEÓN • RAPHA
Dancer Featured: Maïka Giasson Maïka

LABOUR is coming to Toronto in September! 

See it at The Theatre Centre, September 10-12, 2026.

💥LABOUR raw, sweaty, visceral, and absurd. It rejects aesthetic politeness and imagines a shared power, both intimate and collective, rooted in a plurality of femme perspectives.

Learn about PARTS+LABOUR:
PARTS+LABOUR is undeniably one of today’s bold and distinctive voices in contemporary dance. Since 2011, co-choreographers Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth have created works that blur the boundaries between structure and spontaneity, weaving together the personal, the poetic, and the political. Drawing on literature, mythology, and philosophy, they embrace tension over resolution, valuing the collision of ideas as a way to generate powerful narratives around community, solitude, and collective memory. Their work maintains an active presence locally, nationally, and internationally, with presentations in leading festivals and institutions while remaining deeply rooted in their community.

🎟️On sale now! Tickets range from $34-54, fees included. 

Presented with support from dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival dmicfac 

Photo credit: Bobby León BOBBY LEÓN • RAPHA
Dancers Featured: Jossua Satinée, Brianna Lombardo, Maïka Giasson, Frédérique Rodier and Lou-Anne Rousseau

In celebration of the launch of the 2026/27 Toronto dance season, we are partnering with Citadel + Compagnie to offer a special ticket discount! 

Buy a ticket to PARTS+LABOUR’s LABOUR and receive $5 off a ticket to Citadel + Compagnie’s presentation of The Art of Degeneration by Louis Laberge-Côté, or vice-versa!

The Art of Degeneration
September 9-12, 2026 @ 8PM
Louis Laberge-Côté
Co-presented with Louis Laberge-Côté, in association with Moonhorse Dance Theatre
At The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance
 
A Dora-nominated interdisciplinary tour de force, The Art of Degeneration weaves dance, theatre, and vocal performance into a visceral exploration of survival and decay. Blurring the line between stage and daily life, this solo-duo fusion reflects on identity, vulnerability, and the raw beauty of our shared, ever-changing human journey.

The Art of Degeneration | Photo of Louis Laberge-Côté | Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh | Design by Messenger

💥LABOUR is the first performance in our Signature Series of 26/27. 

Tickets are on sale now!🎟️ $34-54, fees included. 

⚡PARTS+LABOUR brings you this frontal, physically demanding choreographic work performed by five firebrand, femme-identifying artists exploring endurance, collective presence, and persistence.

Raw. 

Sweaty. 

Visceral.

And absurd. 

See it live at The Theatre Center, September 10-12, 2026.

Presented with support from dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival dmicfac

If you were waiting for a sign, this is it 🪧 

Get your tickets today!

Photo Credit: Kristina Hilliard
Dancers Featured: Frédérique Rodier and Jossua Satinée