Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
Something Between an Essay, a Pseudo-Story About Little Robo-Bugs and Another Excuse to Talk About Virtuosity
By Fabien Maltais-BaydaChoreographer Antony Hamilton’s “Natural Orders” ends with a cluster of small light-sensitive mechanisms gliding about a section of the stage. While from a distance they appear mostly as points of luminescence, they look, up close, a bit like rubber toothbrush heads or many-legged critters.
Posted April 20, 2018
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
To Turn Burden into Songs
By Victoria McKenzieDear Dana, On June 18, 2017, I watched you perform Yellow Towel.
Posted July 31, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
Intertextual Review: Dana Michel, Yellow Towel
By Fabien Maltais-BaydaIf Yellow Towel is an experiment in identity, it is one that imagines identity through the fragmentary, the sensorial, the experiential.
Posted July 31, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
Crafting Tension and Attention
By Robert KingsburyMontreal dance artist Dana Michel’s celebrated work Yellow Towel had its Toronto debut as part of Dancemakers Minifest this June, after extensive touring in Europe and the United States.
Posted July 31, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
“It’s all to get me to a different place.”
By Fabien Maltais-Bayda, Victoria McKenzieWhile scrawling notes in mid-performance darkness, I sometimes cling to words.
Posted July 31, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
Two Local Voices on a Double Bill
By Robert KingsburyLocal and emerging artists-in-residence Andrea Spaziani and Amanda Acorn share a program during the Dancemakers MiniFest on June 13 in the Distillery District.
Posted June 13, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
A Feast of a MiniFest
By Victoria McKenzieI’ve been craving spice lately. A lil’ paprika, a lil’ tamarind, a lil’ Dancemakers MiniFest.
Posted June 13, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
Flowchart: Incidental Continuity
By Robert Kingsbury, Fabien Maltais-BaydaIncidental continuity … The exploratory permissiveness of the program’s multidisciplinary approach uniquely opens the possibility for accidents of cohesion.
Posted April 3, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
Per for wo man it I v i t y: Intimacy-through-distance
By Robert KingsburyThis Desiring Pony, a solo rooted in feminist methodology, calls upon internalized patriarchal modes of oppression existing both in the body of a female dance artist and in the dialectic between performer and audience.
Posted January 24, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
The Incantation of This Desiring Pony
By Victoria McKenzie“Where have you been?” was the question projected on the upstage screen when we walked into the space.
Posted January 4, 2017
Dance WiRe (Writers in Residence)
This Desiring Pony
By Fabien Maltais-BaydaThe alter ego of Dancemakers Local Artist in Residence Andrea Spaziani, Schpando is also the performer of the upcoming work This Desiring Pony.
Posted December 13, 2016
