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Christina Strynatka's Work
Movers
Moving in Time By Christina Strynatka Volume 20, Issue 2Contemporary dancer Pulga Muchochoma draws from his Mozambican roots to fuel his artistry.
Canadian-Latin American Dance Today
Vanguardia Dance Festival By Christina Strynatka Vanguardia Dance Showcase: A View on Latin AmericaWatching A View on Latin America days after Trump’s victory, I couldn’t help but watch this collection of Latin American perspectives and see a community united.
Posted December 1, 2016Practice
Making Connections By Christina Strynatka Volume 19, Issue 6Nicole Hamilton helps connect minds and bodies through dance
Urban Myth
Next Stage Theatre Festival By Christina Strynatka URBAN MYTHThe only dance highlight at this year’s Next Stage Theatre Festival was Urban Myth, brainchild of York University grad Deanne Kearney.
Posted February 8, 2016Movers
Subtle Strength: Christianne Ullmark of Toronto Dance Theatre By Christina Strynatka Volume 19, Issue 1
The Big and Small of Power Dynamics
By Christina Strynatka ArmbandArmband an exploration into some of the push-and-pull of relationships that govern us every day, including power, community and individuality.
Posted December 3, 2015
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Ratmansky & Côté: An Effective Juxtaposition
By Christina StrynatkaWhat does it mean to find yourself? Is it better to follow a definite narrative, as seen in Guillaume Côté’s Being and Nothingness on the National Ballet’s Ratmansky and Côté program (May 31 performance), or to take a more abstract form, as in the other two pieces on the program, Alexei Ratmansky’s Symphony #9 and Piano Concerto #1?
Posted June 4, 2015
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
The Man in Black with Chroma & Allegro Brillante & Carousel (A Dance)
By Christina StrynatkaWhen you’ve established yourself the way the National Ballet of Canada has, it could become easy to rest on your laurels and congratulate yourself on a job well done. In that respect, much credit goes to the company for going out on a limb with The Man in Black, Chroma, Allegro Brillante and Carousel (A Dance).
Posted March 10, 2015
Emerging Arts Critics Programme
Manon
By Christina StrynatkaKenneth MacMillan may have created Manon in 1974, but forty years later his themes resonate as strongly as ever.
Posted November 13, 2014
