Scotty Mac provides tips for teachers unable to make physical adjustments to their students
Posted January 8, 2021Gurdeep Pandher’s videos have gained a wide audience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted December 17, 2020Lindsay Dobbin, Heather Lamoureux and Ralph Escamillan discuss their complex and ever-evolving experiences with ecojustice, sustainable practices and environmental connectivity.
Posted October 29, 2020On Monday, Dancing with the Stars revealed the top ten duos. Included in that list is Albertan Kaitlyn Bristowe, from The Bachelorette season eleven. The Dance Current caught up with Bristowe to talk about her experience on the show so far
Posted October 24, 2020Emily Latimer caught up with drag king and performance artist Heath V. Salazar to talk about how the intersection of drag and politics can engage audiences in discussions about race, gender and religion. Read the original profile in our November/December 2020 issue.
Posted October 16, 2020While anticipating a new decade of growth and possibilities, the dance community came to an unprecedented halt in March 2020. But under COVID-19 restrictions, an even greater emergence impacts the emotional well-being, spirits, safety and livelihoods of Black people: Anti-Black racism.
Posted July 9, 2020Festival Accès Asie (FAA) celebrates it’s twenty-fifth anniversary with a swift pivot due to COVID-19 closures. Dylan Schoenmakers speaks with the FAA team to find out how they managed the organizational shift.
Posted June 11, 2020Winnipeg-based photographer Leif Norman shares his tips for making at-home dance videos look and sound their best during COVID-19 isolation.
Posted April 24, 2020A 2019 documentary, Beyond Moving, by Vikram Dasgupta, profiles second soloist with the National Ballet, Siphesihle November. The film premiered in Canada as part of the Hot Docs’ Doc Soup series in February 2020.
Posted April 9, 2020Brooke Lynn Hytes, season eleven runner-up and first Canadian queen on RuPaul’s Drag Race, is sashaying back to her hometown, Toronto. She’ll be performing with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo on March 7 and 8 at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Posted March 4, 2020Dylan Crossman speaks with Selma Odom about his restaging of Changing Steps, discussing the influence of Merce Cunningham’s philosophy on his dancing, teaching, and choreographing.
Posted February 25, 2020The Dance Current caught up Catherine Hayward while on tour with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks.
Posted December 21, 2019Prior to the debut of her new work, Wild Within, Sara Coffin talks to writer Michael Lake about the creation process.
Posted October 29, 2019Everything you need to know about voting this October and why it matters for the arts sector.
Posted September 17, 2019What is it like for dance artists who work in operatic productions? The Dance Current talks to Tyler Gledhill about his experiences.
Posted August 27, 2019What if our first impression of someone was through touch alone? Dance-filmmaker Marites Carino has put aside her camera in order to answer that question. Her newest project, HANDSHACK, is an interactive installation that sets up a blind “hand date” between strangers, a handshake turned improvised pas de deux.
Posted August 19, 2019This October, Alberta Ballet is bringing a legend to life with their production of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Preparing for his first horror ballet, Jean Grand-Maître spoke to The Dance Current about honing the details of the production.
Posted August 16, 2019Discussing her newest creation, CUTLASS SPRING, Dana Michel speaks about the inspiration behind her experimental and intimate exploration of sexuality within identity.
Posted June 13, 2019Artemis Gordon, artistic director of the Arts Umbrella dance program, ensures that this school’s season finale will be anything but tedious. Performance is a tool of edification and experience, and what Gordon values is deeper than showmanship.
Posted June 12, 2019The Dance Current caught up with Xiao Nan Yu on the eve of her retirement from her tenure at the National Ballet of Canada.
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