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Dance artist and author Carol Anderson has chronicled Canadian dance since the late 1980s. Her writing includes biographies, collections, articles and online resources. Since the 1970s she has choreographed and taught in professional, educational and community settings. Anderson started performing with pioneer Judy Jarvis’s first dance/theatre company and was a founding member of Dancemakers - dancing, teaching and choreographing with the Toronto company from 1974 to 1988. Now a professor emerita of York University’s Department of Dance, Anderson continues to move, make, teach and write.
Carol Anderson's Work
Moving Forward, Looking Back
By Carol Anderson, Kate Stashko, Helen Simard Volume 20, Issue 4A special three-part feature on dance in Canada
Grant Strate
Dance's Spirited Statesman By Carol Anderson Volume 17, Issue 5Feisty, avid and daring, Grant Strate’s professional dance career began in 1951 at the National Ballet of Canada and he has been a positive juggernaut in the field ever since. One of the country’s foremost dance educators, Strate also developed some of the most important and lasting institutions for choreography in Canada. Strate’s former student and colleague Carol Anderson writes about the man and his legacy.
Rachel Browne’s Enduring Dance
Our Tribute to a Trailblazer and Constant Mentor By Carol Anderson Volume 15, Issue 5Rachel Browne’s passing, on June 9, 2012, ends her own long path through dance. It’s left to others to recall her with love and respect, and attend to the resonance of her significance in Canadian dance.
The Benefit of Striving
Kids’ Health & Dance By Carol Anderson Volume 13, Issue 6While the physical and artistic benefits of dance are not simply interchangeable with “fitness”, imparting children with a sense of well being, within a framework that promotes healthy choices over the long term, seems vital in our computer- and media-dominated culture – and dance offers this potential experience.
A "Selfish" Impulse Turned Invitation
Older and Reckless is Ten By Carol AndersonOlder and Reckless, started by Toronto-based dancer/choreographer Claudia Moore, is celebrating its tenth anniversary season in 2009/10. A full programming history to date follows this article.
Posted December 3, 2009No More Starving in the Attic: Senior Dance Artists Advocate a Canadian Artists' Heritage Resource Centre
By Carol Anderson Volume 11, Issue 5Excerpt from Dance, Human Rights and Social Justice
Immaculate Perception [a response]
By Carol Anderson "Necessary Velocity" Michelle SilagyQuestions rose, watching “Necessary Velocity”. Questions came from the work itself, and from the act of observation – questions related to details of looking and the ethics of response.
Posted July 12, 2007Dance in Banff
A New Book By Carol Anderson Volume 10, Issue 6We have excerpted our photo feature this issue from Brian Macdonald’s new book Dancing in Thin Air: Looking Back on Sixty Years of Dance at the Banff Centre, including a short text excerpt and a selection of images from over the years.
