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apparition

By Kendra Guidolin

Poetry by Kendra Guidolin. Find more of her work in our November/December 2020 issue.

Posted October 7, 2020

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Years of traumatic rhetoric around body image and perfection have dulled the pure joy of dancing that I felt in my creative movement classes as a kid. An invisible screen of anxiety has prevented me from making it into a studio consistently. While I’ve had the desire to go, getting there has been the problem, and I haven’t been able to fix it.

Posted August 31, 2020

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Remembering Anna Wyman

By Emma FitzGerald

Emma Fitzgerald reflects on the life of her former dance teacher, the legendary choreographer and artistic director, Anna Wyman.

Posted August 26, 2020

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Remembering Dan Wild

Friends and colleagues shared with The Dance Current memories of Wild.

Posted June 3, 2020

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Welcome to Our World

By Patricia Allison

Can digital innovation during COVID-19 be leveraged in a post-pandemic world to make dance careers more accessible?

Posted April 8, 2020

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Dancing Before Walking

By Sima Chowdhury

Sima Chowdhury speaks about her journey to recovery through dance.

Posted April 7, 2020

A figure in a white tutu dances in a blur

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This Shape

By Kendra Guidolin

Kendra Guidolin shares a short fiction piece on the subject of body image.

Posted April 7, 2020

Barbara Diabo's Community Project: Life is Good Thanks / photo by Tamara Romanchuk

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(Re)Connecting the Circle

By Amy Hull

Claudia Moore’s MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presented Older & Reckless #42 in November of 2019. Amy Hull responds to the six works presented by artists Bill Coleman, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Christine Friday, Elizabeth Langley, JP Longboat, Byron Chief Moon, and Lee Maracle.

Posted March 30, 2020

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Message for International Dance Day From Louise Lecavalier

Louise Lecavalier shares a message for International Dance Day, via Regroupement québécois de la danse.

Posted April 29, 2019

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All Things West

By Sky Fairchild-Waller

In The Right Eye of Clint, I see an architect – someone who muses over how designed space and humans converge.

Posted April 18, 2019

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Ecologies of Care

By Andrea Frolic

If you listen to Peggy Baker describe her work move, she’ll tell you the piece is about the experience of giving and receiving care, of being tended to and tending to others.

Posted March 8, 2019

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Textiles and Truth-Telling

By Kristin Harris Walsh

The word ori is a Yoruba word meaning head and representing one’s life path, purpose, destiny and spiritual intuition. While Afro-Brazilian spiritual beliefs may seem miles away both physically and culturally from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, the recent production, titled Ori, brought the two together.

Posted January 2, 2019

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Lights, Curtain, Music

By Anaïs Loewen-Young

For Robert McQueen, one of the most important aspects of a musical is its use of composition; the role of music can make or break a production. “The music isn’t just providing a nice melody,” he states.

Posted September 18, 2018

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Who Tells and Cries Our Freedom?

By Collette Murray

A student-choreographed routine included dancers wearing slave and master outfits and an attempted tribal dance in dashikis and coloured “Afro” wigs to disco movements. This was April 2018, and the performance held in Barrie, Ontario, sparked a controversial social media reaction on cultural ethics.

Posted September 4, 2018

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Canadian Dancers Across the Pond

By Rachel Levitt

Fresh out of high school, two friends from “Cowtown” (Calgary, Alberta) upped sticks and made a bold move across the pond to London, England.

Posted August 31, 2018

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Shawn Hounsell is Always Crossing Boundaries

By Lori Straus

Shawn Hounsell, the choreographer of CBC’s Off Kilter, talks about the business of making dance for TV.

Posted August 23, 2018

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Diving Deeper

By Jennifer Bolt

In The Dance Current’s July/August 2018 issue Jennifer Bolt wrote about designing a feminist dance pedagogy (“Diving In”). As a continuation of this article, here are some practical tips for how to enact these principles in your teaching practice.

Posted July 31, 2018

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The Bechdel Checklist

By Grace Wells-Smith

Would Giselle, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty pass the Bechdel Test?

Posted June 13, 2018

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A Broad Reach

By Holly Harris

In just five short years, the now fifteen-year-old NAfro Dance Productions has made another leap in its own evolution as Western Canada’s African contemporary dance company. The second international Moving Inspirations Dance Festival once again brought the world to Winnipeg, while also proudly celebrating local dance artists who call the Prairie province home.

Posted March 19, 2018

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Remembering Martine Époque

By Daniel Léveillé

On January 18, 2018 dance communities across Canada lost a founding member – Martine Époque. With a background from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Époque was integral in developing dance courses at the Université de Montréal after arriving in Canada in 1967.

Posted February 8, 2018

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