Toronto let her hair down Saturday with the 5th annual Nuit (pronounced N'oui, not Noooey) Blanche as people - strangers of all ages laughed, talked, even sang an aria in the Distillery!
Dance was indeed one of the many art form that Nuit Blanche celebrated Saturday in several locations, including KiangaFord and Isabelle Noel's interactive Dances with Strangers inside the Dundas Street West & Bay Street's Atrium-on-Bay with only four steps to fun.
1 - Embrace a Stranger; 2 - Find the Beat; 3 - Fall into the Music; 4 - Then Repeat!
SalsaTO.ca won a tee-shirt sometime around 9:30pm. with a floor clearing salsa - LA, On 1, Fast & Flashy - to Celia Cruz's Carnivale! SalsaTO did indeed embrace 100+ strangers, with a 2 minute quickie way to Find the Beat, helped them fall into Carnivale with about three more minutes of repetition!
Fast forward to 3:30am, Dances with Strangers was still going strong and Ann-Marie embraced more strangers, helping them find the beat with a Merengue demo and falling into the music together!
The Sidewalk Salsa folks continued their Nuit Blanche impromptu dancing tradition by the ROM's Crystal. Wandering groups made their own music and dance throughout the night.
The Dance District dance school over in The Distillery District was running an unofficial dance marathon featuring Rumba, Merengue, Swing, Merengue, Swing, Disco, Salsa, and Merengue demos and shows, closing out with more salsa at 4:00am.
So much in so many places meant but a taste of a kaleidoscope of art - from Agnes Winter's visual projection Monument to Smile on Holt Renfrew, to OpenEndedGroup's animation Crossings projected on facets of ROM's crystal to a rave with projections down in the parking lot at Centre Avenue and Armoury, to Dance Ontario's Look, Listen, Move.
Who knows what year six of Toronto's city wide night of fun, art in all forms will bring?
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