They aren’t easily seen from any street but there are now 20 colourful figures leaping and dancing their way along the west side of Bridgepoint Hospital. You will encounter them if you walk on the path that runs between Gerrard East and Riverdale Park.
below: Perched high above the Don Valley, they run, jump, leap, dance and celebrate movement of the human form. They are sculptures by Canadian artist Bill Lishman (with help from Richard Vanheuvelan).
below: A yellow goggle-wearing snowboarder leaping over the bushes is the first sculpture you come across if you are walking up the path from Riverdale Park.
below: Two of the twenty different figures form ‘The Lambada’ (a dance style originating in Brazil in the 1980’s) by Richard Vanheuvelan.
below: More dance, this time ballet in red, blue and purple. Strength and grace.
below: ‘The Three Muses’ pose overlooking the city.
The sculptures were a generous gift from the Tauba and Solomon Spiro Foundation and were originally designed in memory of businessman and philanthropist, Max Tanenbaum (1909-1983).
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