UPDATE: The Theatre Centre has made the difficult decision to close our building to the public as of Monday, March 16, 2020 until Sunday, April 5, 2020, inclusive. We have chosen this period in line with recent recommendations announced by Toronto Public Health.

The upcoming Sarah Porter Dance production of Getting to know your fruit is currently going forward as planned. We will update this page as the situation changes.

During this time, we ask for your patience as we reach out to ticket buyers to process donations and returns of cancelled productions. Any ticketing inquiries should be made via email to [email protected]. General inquiries should be directed to [email protected].

If you are looking for additional information regarding COVID-19 and guidelines to help keep yourself and others healthy, we recommend you visit the websites linked below:
– Toronto Public Health
– Government of Canada
– World Health Organization

Getting to know your fruit is a ripe and raucous new piece of contemporary dance performance.

“I’m thinking about fruit as the sweetness of life, a slander for queer love, and the source of nutrition, poetry, and art, feeding flesh and the imagination.”

Always on the edge of humour and absurdity, Sara Porter explores the biology, sensuality and poetry of fruit as a metaphor for the struggle toward self-knowledge. Sara stretches the bounds of memoir to harvest the fruits of her 30-year career in dance, writing, comedy, and visual design. Playing through math and memory, literature and lip-sync, Sara is on a multi-disciplinary journey to examine the roots and fruits of her identity as a queer woman artist.

“This is a mature woman who isn’t afraid to be just that.”
—Scott Charles, Writer’s Block, San Francisco

“Porter is smart, funny, and poignant… a tour de force.”
—Karen Bernard, Performance Mix Festival director, NYC