BEAUTIFUL RENEGADES
A new play about 1970s Toronto, dance,
and the trouble-makers whose art changed them both.

Peggy has commissioned Toronto-based playwright Michael Ross Albert to write Beautiful Renegades, a play inspired by the anti-establishment politics that helped shape contemporary dance in 1970s Toronto. Your donation will assist us in mounting this large-scale work in September 2022 at the Theatre Centre. In development since 2018, it includes new choreographic distillations of ground-breaking choreography from six ground-breaking choreographers of the era: Elizabeth Chitty, Margaret Dragu, Lily Eng, Louise Garfield, Johanna Householder, and Jennifer Mascall. Directed by Eda Holmes and designed by Gillian Gallow (sets and costumes) and Debashis Sinha (sound), Beautiful Renegades features a company of 6 actors and dancers who take us back to the time when Peggy was just starting out as a dancer; while the work itself marks the final production of Peggy Baker Dance Projects.