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Fefe Dobson announces the Shut Up And Kiss Me Fall Tour

This fall, multi-platinum artist Fefe Dobson will be taking her live show on the road across Canada with stops in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Saskatoon and so much more. Tickets go on sale July 21 st   here .

Fefe has steadily been releasing new music including singles “FCKN IN LOVE” “Recharge My Heart,” and last month she released her punchy new single  “HUNGOVER,”  which will all appear on her upcoming album  EMOTION SICKNESS  due later this year.  The sound of her new music is a return to Fefe’s earlier albums, combining angsty lyricism and unapologetic punk/rock-driven production like the live recorded drums in the latest single “ HUNGOVER ” 

The recent success of international artists like Willow Smith and Olivia Rodrigo with their rock-driven pop anthems has shifted the musical landscape for the younger generation. This shift in sound broke the door open for pioneers like Fefe to be rediscovered and celebrated for the groundwork they laid. As NYLON Magazine thoughtfully notes “Dobson inspired Black alternative kids who saw themselves in her.”  Even SZA listed Fefe’s music as an influence for her #1-selling album SOS. The revival of nostalgia in modern pop music is apparent and Fefe’s earnest lyricism and edgy pop/rock sound, reminiscent of the aughts, is on the cusp of resurfacing into the 2020s. 

 In early 2022, Fefe made her triumphant and welcomed return to music with her catchy pop anthem ‘FCKN IN LOVE’ which climbed to the top 15 at Canadian radio charts, followed up by the buzz single ‘Recharge My Heart’ in late fall of the same year. Fefe now readies her new album, inspired by different eras of her own music catalog to pay homage to her influences over the years and really celebrate her own legacy in the alt space as a BIPOC female artist.

Tour Dates: September 29, 2023 – Toronto, ON * October 16, 2023 – Vancouver, BC * October 18, 2023 – Edmonton, AB October 20, 2023 – Calgary, AB # October 21, 2023 – Saskatoon, SK * October 22, 2023 – Winnipeg, MB October 24, 2023 – Ottawa, ON * October 26, 2023 – London, ON October 27, 2023 – Hamilton, ON # – 18+ / * – 19+

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Fefe Dobson Reclaims Her Pop Punk Throne

The singer-songwriter is set to release her new album  emotion sickness , music that celebrates her unapologetic spunk and nonconformist sense of self..

• Writer Yasmine Shemesh
• Photographer Mathew Guido

When Fefe Dobson was a kid, 10 or 11 years old, she would interview herself. She sat in her basement and imagined she was a guest on a talk show. She was never afraid to dream big. She continues to listen to her inner child whenever doubt starts creeping in. As an adult, she’s had to learn how to listen closely to that wild and fearless little girl. But she’s always known her power.

She knew it when, in high school, she told her friends that Justin Timberlake would know her name one day. “They just thought I was crazy,” she says, laughing. “And maybe crazy’s great. Maybe a little crazy is what you need.”

Dobson’s 2003 self-titled debut, with furious anthems like “Take Me Away” and “Bye Bye Boyfriend,” cemented her as a once-in-a-generation artist and one of the few Black alternative women in the mainstream space. True to her word, Dobson opened for Timberlake on his European tour the following year. Now, with her new album, Emotion Sickness (set for release this fall), the 38-year-old singer has regained her power all over again. The record, her fourth, bridges her musical history—from her debut’s spirited vocal arrangements and roaring guitar to Sunday Love ’s raw vulnerability to Joy ’s pop musicality—in a union of the many alter egos that emerge from her when she creates music.

Dobson grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, where she lived with her mother and three siblings. She began writing poetry in elementary school, inspired by listening to Silverchair. She was obsessed with the way frontman Daniel Johns wrote, his way of seeing happiness, and how he described his pain. She’d soon start putting music to her prose. “It was really just my way of getting it out,” Dobson says. “I needed an outlet to explain and describe what I was feeling, and I didn’t feel like anyone would really hear it or understand. So I turned to journals a lot.”

Fefe Dobson wears a Bulgari Serpenti necklace and MM6 Maison Margiela jacket, available at WDLT117 in Toronto.

Music was a constant, and the house was filled with an eclectic playlist of Donna Summer, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Phil Collins, and Depeche Mode. Dobson listened to Green Day and Blink-182 on her Discman (*NSYNC or Backstreet Boys if she was “feeling emotional”) while on her way to Wexford Collegiate, the arts high school she attended in Toronto. She also loved Judy Garland and found her beautiful voice and tragic story fascinating.

Dobson, like many aspiring musicians, sent out demo tapes and quickly caught the attention of Zomba Music Group, owner of Jive Records, as a teenager. While she emphasizes how thankful she was to be picked out from a sea of hopefuls, something felt wrong as the label tried different genres on her. It was like bumping into a wall. “I needed a guitar,” Dobson says. “I needed angst. I needed to write. I needed a lot of things.”

Then, in the studio one day, Prozzäk’s Jay Levine and James Bryan McCollum popped in. They needed a singer for a cheeky pop-punk track called “Get a Clue,” and Dobson enthusiastically agreed. “I learned it pretty much on the spot and sang it.” Following suit, Levine and McCollum offered to make a record with Dobson, one that she wanted to make. So she “decided to take a risk and join forces with Jay and James.”

She signed with the Island Def Jam label in 2003, and Fefe Dobson became an international smash, debuting at No. 1 on Billboard ’s Heatseekers Albums chart. Dobson was all over MuchMusic and MTV’s Total Request Live and was nominated for two Junos. Still just a teenager, “I was so protected. I’d never been to a house party. I never got to go to movies by myself. I never did anything,” she says. “And all of a sudden, it was like, ‘Photos! And, like, what?’ I wasn’t ready to smile and be, quote unquote, the photogenic pretty girl.”

Part of what has made Dobson’s work so compelling is how her attitude—her unapologetic spunk, her nonconformist sense of self, how she follows her heart—sears through. It exudes from Emotion Sicknes s: this time, as a grown woman revelling in her rage and rapture.

Dobson faced challenges as a young Black woman releasing pop-punk music in a mainstream landscape. While she admired punk-spirited disrupters like Tina Turner and Janet Jackson (“‘Black Cat’ changed my life”), it was hard not to have anyone in her genre, in her generation, who looked like her, to look up to. Some challenges also lived inside her, Dobson adds, like wondering what to do with her hair and feeling self-conscious that her Dickies fit differently than on her peers (think Avril Lavigne and Ashlee Simpson).

“I’ve never given up on anyone. I still believe that, even though my heart sometimes gets completely low and my battery completely has no charge, I always find a way to start again.” —Fefe Dobson

Fefe Dobson wears Alexander McQueen alongside the Knuckle handbag.

Dobson’s first real heartbreak from the industry came with Sunday Love , her profoundly personal sophomore effort that was shelved in 2005 before she was dropped from Island Def Jam. “It was about my childhood on a real deeper level, about my inability to understand how to make a relationship work,” she says. Losing the album, which was named for her mom’s alias, made her realize how little control she had. “You can literally put your heart and soul into something and make a body of work, and it can be taken from you. That blew my mind.” Devastated, she moved back to Toronto. “I had worked my entire life to get signed, and I couldn’t see beyond that.”

Sunday Love eventually came out digitally in 2012, seven years later, but without its intended cover art, which had depicted a re-creation of Dobson’s childhood bedroom. It’s still painful, and she has a love-hate relationship with the record. “I felt like I was mad at it,” she admits. “I was mad at the album. Like, maybe you [ Sunday Love ] ruined everything—like, it’s your fault.” She might rerelease it one day, give it its “proper burial.”

She remained unsigned and kept busy in the meantime: appearing in film and television, writing songs for others, and releasing 2010’s Joy , which got her re-signed to Island Def Jam and yielded hits like “Stuttering” and “Ghost.” But a few years later, about to drop “Fckn in Love,” she needed a break. “There was something going on in me,” she explains. So she paused the release and took a step back.

Making Emotion Sickness , she says, was like shedding skin. Most of it was written in two months, but the process began when “Fckn in Love” finally came out in 2022—Dobson’s first major commercial release in eight years. She began releasing her own music again during the pandemic, after working with her manager, Danny Reiner, and singer Tyler Shaw to gather an impressive ensemble of Canadian artists (including Lavigne, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Justin Bieber) to record a cover of Bill Withers’s “Lean on Me” directly benefiting the Canadian Red Cross. This time, it felt right. And “Fckn in Love” was in the vault, ready to go. With its electro-pop melody and Dobson’s impressively flexible vocal register, the love song ushered in a triumphant return of a renegade whose influence is reflected in today’s generation of alternative female artists, including SZA, Olivia Rodrigo, and Willow Smith.

Emotion Sickness doubles down on that exhilarating energy, with a rousing musical landscape combining electric production, breakneck drums, and guitar-driven arrangements, with a couple of killer solos—like an album highlight, “I Can’t Love Him (And Love You Too),” courtesy of producer Sam Arion. “A good guitar solo should literally feel like the melody,” Dobson says enthusiastically. “It should feel like it’s speaking to you in some sense.”

Many recording sessions took place at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel while Dobson was going through a separation. “Sometimes you go through something and then you write an album,” she says. “But everything you’re hearing is what I was actually living the night before.” It was a cathartic experience that recalls the journaling Dobson did as a kid. The songs are candid as she sings about wild nights and rough mornings (“Hungover”), flirty crushes (“Shut Up and Kiss Me”), kiss-offs (“Too Late”), and devastating heartache, as on rock ballad “Someone New,” which achingly implores, “It was so quiet/You could hear when my heart broke/Did you hear when my heart broke?”

And then, there’s “Recharge My Heart,” an upbeat track with a standout lyric that carries heavy weight: “One spark is all I need to bring me back to life.” It’s about love, Dobson says. “I’ve never given up on anyone. I still believe that, even though my heart sometimes gets completely low and my battery completely has no charge, I always find a way to start again.”

It goes back to that unwavering belief Dobson has always had: in her dreams, in following her heart, in herself. When asked what Emotion Sickness represents about who she is today, she pauses. Frank Sinatra’s classic, “My Way,” a favourite of hers, best describes it, she says. “I did it my way. And I’ll continue to, because being myself is all I can be.”

Stylist Ashley Galang . Hair and makeup by Cayla Bliss .

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The Kyiv City Ballet to Tour the US in an American Premiere

The US tour will include a full-length Swan Lake (choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and Ivan Kozlov), and a second mixed repertory program of three ballets.

The Kyiv City Ballet, under the artistic direction of Ivan Kozlov, announced today a U.S tour from September 16 to October 24, 2022. The Fall tour is a US premiere and marks the Kyiv City Ballet's first United States performances ever. The day before Ukraine was invaded in February, The Kyiv City Ballet unknowingly took one of the last flights out of Kyiv. The company flew to Paris to begin a long planned tour. They have not returned home. The country of France sheltered them and the company has been performing throughout France, and now Europe, since the invasion began. The US tour will include a full-length Swan Lake (choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and Ivan Kozlov), and a second mixed repertory program of three ballets: Thoughts (choreography by Vladyslav Dobshynskyi) a contemporary ballet, Tribute to Peace (choreography by Ekaterina and Ivan Kozlov) a neo-classical work, and Men of Kyiv (choreography by Pavlo Virsky) a Ukranian folk dance. "We are honored to share the beauty of ballet with US audiences, through Ukranian artists" said Ivan Kozlov, Artistic Director. "Touring the States for the first time with a range of ballets makes an important global statement. It demonstrates the resilience of the Ukrainian people." The Kyiv City Ballet's mission is to bring joy to audiences through ballet by bringing exemplary artists to theatres around the world. In the past decade, the company has successfully toured throughout dozens of countries on four continents. Two of Ukraine's prima ballerinas: Krystina Kadashevych and Oksana Bondarenko will perform with the company on their US tour. The company's principal dancer is Vsevolod Maevskiy, a former soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet and Kozlov's former student. "We are humbled that Rhizome has been asked to produce and strategically support the Kyiv City Ballet on their very first tour to the United States," said producer Kristopher McDowell . "That major cultural arts centers across the country are coming together to open their doors and their hearts is extraordinary. It is very clear this company and their artistry will have great appeal to non-dance and dance audiences alike." Additional tour dates will be announced over the summer. The Kyiv City Ballet's confirmed 2022 US tour schedule is as follows:

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The Kyiv City Ballet was founded in 2012 by the current Artistic Director Ivan Kozlov. Their mission is to bring joy to audiences through ballet. They strive to bring exemplary artists to theatres around the World. In the past decade, they have successfully worked together with various partners and toured throughout dozens of countries and 4 continents. Their classical ballets include: "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker", "Scheherazade", "Giselle", "Chopiniana", "Romeo and Juliet", "Don Quixote", "Gala Tchaikovsky", "Funny Concert" "Strauss Evening", "Carmen Suite". Ballets for young spectators and their families: "Cinderella", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Aibolit and Barmalei","Coppelia" as well as "Thoughts," "Men of Kyiv," and "Tribute to Peace."

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Ex-Premier of the National Opera of Ukraine, The St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet, IBT (Internationale Ballet Theater), and the Mariinsky Theater; the choreographer and teacher Ivan Anatolievich Kozlov was born on 13 December 1982. In 2000, after graduating from the KGHU (Kiyv State Choreographic School), under the tutelage of the Honored Artist of Ukraine, Vladimir Denisenko, Ivan Kozlov was invited to join the ballet troupe of the National Opera of Ukraine, and simultaneously to the world- famous troupe of Boris Eifman in St. Petersburg. He worked as an artist in both troupes. During his work in the theater of B. Eifman, Ivan performed the leading parts in the following repertoire: "Red Giselle", "Don Quixote", "Russian Hamlet", "Anna Karenina", and "The Brothers Karamazov". In the troupe of the National Opera of Ukraine, he performed the leading parts in the ballets Swan Lake, Giselle, Spartacus, Don Quixote, Viennese Waltz, and many others. Ivan Kozlov worked under contract as a leading soloist of the "Internationale Ballet Theater" in the United States. From 2007 to 2010, he was the premier of the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, where he performed the leading parts in nearly the entire repertoire of the theater, as well as in numerous concert numbers. Ivan is a laureate of many ballet competitions, including the Serge Lifar International Competition (2002, silver medal) and the X Moscow International Competition (2005, silver medal). Among the teachers of Ivan Kozlov are some of the most outstanding dancers of the 20th century: People's Artist of the USSR, Irina Kolpakova, People's Artist of the USSR Vladlilen Semenov, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Sergei Berezhnoi, Premier of the Mariinsky Theater, Eldar Aliyev, and Honored Artist of Ukraine, Anatoly Kozlov. Since 2014, Ivan Kozlov has been the executive of the theater, "Kiev City Ballet" with which he has successfully toured Europe and the world.

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