The Company
Dancing on Water Theatre Company is a not-for-profit company with a mandate to foster the creation and
production of original musical and theatrical works.
The company had its beginnings as an ad hoc community project to produce an original musical play involving 50 children, their families and community. That production, Dancing on Water, was written and composed by Timothy Piper. It was performed to sell-out audiences at Alumni Theatre, Carleton University, in February 2001. The show has since been performed at Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa by their boys and girls choirs and at Almonte United Church by their Sunday school.
Dancing on Water was a unique theatrical and community event, which sparked a commitment to produce more original work, specifically the works of emerging artists, or new initiatives by established artists, supporting collaboration toward an innovative approach to musical theatre.
In 2003 the company produced Plenty Unlimited, an original collaboration between Ottawa writer/translator Michael Larrass and composer/music director Timothy Piper. This production premiered at one of Ottawa's best-known theatres, the Great Canadian Theatre Company.
In July 2005, as part of the City of Ottawa's 150th anniversary celebrations, Dancing on Water Theatre Co. produced Bye Bye Bytown - a musical ghost story about the building of the Rideau Canal and the founding of the Nation's Capital. Bye Bye Bytown premiered at Ottawa's Centrepointe Theatre. The show was remounted in 2007 as part of the 175 anniversary of the Rideau Canal.
Dancing on Water Theatre Company also workshops new scripts. In January 2006 we facilitated the staged reading of Santina Vendra's Rime of the Ancient Mariner at the Orleans Theatre.
The company is currently working on a new script by Joshua McMillan - Who Dunnit? The Musical (working title). Stay tuned for more details.
