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Various wading pools in the City of Toronto

MAXINE HEPPNER

"Boat Ballet" is a performance of four different dance movements within a musical composition to take place twiceduring the weekend at a pool near lake Ontario. Heppner will work with the Toronto Sailing Club to choreograph boats sailing into the harbour. After reaching shore, sailors/dancers disembark and continue to the wading pool where they submerge themselves as much as they can. Once submerged with snorkels, miniature boats emerge for a regatta. In the final movement the sailors crawl back to overturned canoes and creep them (like turtles) back towards the lake, upright the boats, and sail away.