Writers & Readers
Writers & Readers
Confined by the Calendar
By Samyuktha PunthambekarEven in “normal” circumstances, IBPOCs follow a largely Eurocentric calendar that primarily recognizes Eurocentric festivals and holidays. Because of how this calendar dictates time off, making the time to travel and train can be nearly impossible for dance artists who can only train in their home countries.
Posted January 26, 2021
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Why I Left Toronto
By Samyuktha PunthambekarPunthambekar describes her experiences in Toronto dance communities and why she decided to leave.
Posted January 18, 2021
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Adding Colour to Dance Health
By Dr. Blessyl BuanDr. Blessyl Buan created the BIPOC Dance Health Directory in order to address the lack of representation she saw in dance health.
Posted January 5, 2021
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What Lies Ahead?
By Patricia AllisonFacing so much of the unknown, artists give their predictions for 2021
Posted December 18, 2020
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Jamaican
By Peter ChinThe entire poem from the Winter 2021 issue
Posted December 8, 2020
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apparition
By Kendra GuidolinPoetry by Kendra Guidolin. Find more of her work in our November/December 2020 issue.
Posted October 7, 2020
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Finding Home Again
By Emily PettetYears 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 FitzGeraldEmma 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 AllisonCan 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 ChowdhurySima Chowdhury speaks about her journey to recovery through dance.
Posted April 7, 2020
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This Shape
By Kendra GuidolinKendra Guidolin shares a short fiction piece on the subject of body image.
Posted April 7, 2020
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(Re)Connecting the Circle
By Amy HullClaudia 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, 2020Writers & Readers
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-WallerIn 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 FrolicIf 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 WalshThe 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-YoungFor 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 MurrayA 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 LevittFresh 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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