How would you illustrate the life of a so-called musical madman – one with a successful musical career that spanned more than three decades but who was plagued with bouts of mental illness? Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD) did so with music, movement and a little madness.
Posted August 12, 2019Kimberly Cooper’s stab at provocative topics – domestic violence, sexualization and even toxic masculinity – recontextualizes and understands them in the context of current understandings of these issues.
Posted August 12, 2019The opening night of Ascension on December 6th felt like a remarkably intimate affair.
Posted December 12, 2018Ascension will slit the throat of creative compliance and grant autonomy to the repressed.
Posted December 5, 2018Thanks to western media and reality TV shows such as Dancing with the Stars and Dance Moms, there is a false impression around dance culture nowadays.
Posted July 3, 2016Your dance training vanishes after your last performance; it is a means to a finite product. However, the challenge of creating great dance teaches invaluable skills that can support any endeavour.
Posted May 31, 2016You have the desire and passion. Now what? For aspiring young dancers, choosing the right university or college performing arts program can be an intimidating task.
Posted May 9, 2016The learning process that occurs when beginning to study something new can be categorized into what I think of as an arc of five stages: initial response, awkwardness, mimicry, understanding and appreciation.
Posted April 26, 2016It is week three of Blackbox and I’m aggressively rubbing mushed banana over my face and neck. If someone had told me three years ago this is what dance school looks like, I would have laughed in disbelief.
Posted April 16, 2016As emerging artists, we need to take into account the sheer number of us who are finding our way out into the professional arts world. We’re all trying to find our niche and make our mark, so we may as well do it together.
Posted April 9, 2016Dance can be a hobby, a passion, an entertainment or an awkward way to start a wedding but to study it at a university level is a whole new approach.
Posted April 9, 2016If you could give your students one piece of advice as they enter their careers in dance, what would it be?
Posted March 15, 2016We are incredibly fortunate to have access and bear witness to burgeoning inclusive dance programs and practices in this country and here in the Capital.
Posted January 21, 2016Every grade twelve student faces one simple question, ‘What next?’
Posted December 11, 2015The theme of Simon Fraser University’s November contemporary dance repertory production, Nostos, is nostalgia. However, these dancers clearly have their eyes on the future.
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