Celebrating Peggy Baker – 50 Years of a Life in Dance!

“In the summer of 1968, a few months shy of turning 16, I met Patricia Beatty. My ambition at the time was to become an actor, and Trish was my ‘movement’ teacher in a month-long theatre workshop in Drumheller, AB. The wisdom, sensuality and riveting immediacy of Trish’s dancing knocked me completely over. She inhabited her female body with grace and gravity. She spoke in the language of poetry - grand metaphors, invocations of the natural world, frank references to the body as the locus of desire, pleasure, intuition and creation. Through this pivotal encounter with Trish, I was delivered to the threshold of my life as a dancer. I arrived in Toronto in the fall of 1971 expressly to train with the company she co-directed, Toronto Dance Theatre. I carry her inspiration to this day.” - Peggy Baker

Now, celebrating the 50th year of her dance career, Peggy has announced that her company, Peggy Baker Dance Projects will close at the conclusion of the 22/23 season.

We invite you to support the company’s CELEBRATING PEGGY BAKER campaign through which we are raising funds to support three inspired projects that honour Peggy’s legacy as an instigator of - and champion for - contemporary dance in Toronto and across Canada: Beautiful Renegades; the Peggy Baker Prize for Performance; and the Creation Catalogue, Peggy Baker Dance Projects’ Online Archive.

The target for the CELEBRATING PEGGY BAKER campaign is $300,000.