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Grace Wells-Smith is a Toronto-based, writer, dance artist and teacher. She is currently a frequent contributor to The Dance Current, a teacher across the city, and completing the Masters of Journalism program at Ryerson University. Soon after graduating from York University with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, she began an internship with The Dance Current and subsequently completed the Emerging Dance Critics Programme run in partnership with The National Ballet of Canada. She has produced two dance films: Our Place in the Wasteland (2016, New Blue Dance) and Glitch (2017, Mile Zero Dance, New Blue Dance, dance : made in canada/fait au canada).
Grace was an intern with The Dance Current from June 2015 to December 2016.
Grace Wells-Smith's Work
If the corps had a leader...
By Grace Wells-Smith Volume 22, Issue 4Andreea Olteanu has been a corps member at The National Ballet of Canada for twenty years, since she was eighteen. On the eve of her retirement, after this 2018/19 season, Olteanu spoke with Grace Wells-Smith about her twenty-year career with the company.
On the Ground
Closing Act
By Grace Wells-SmithThe Dance Current caught up with Xiao Nan Yu on the eve of her retirement from her tenure at the National Ballet of Canada.
Posted June 10, 2019
On the Ground
Heading South
By Grace Wells-SmithWorking in the United States requires patience, planning and help.
Posted May 23, 2019
CADA/West Pilots a Childcare Costs Initiative
The Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists/West Chapter (CADA/West) has announced a new Childcare Subsidy Pilot Program to help dancers offset childcare costs.
Posted April 24, 2019From Our Archives
Catching Up With Shawn Byfield By Grace Wells-Smith Volume 22, Issue 2Dancer and teacher Shawn Byfield
Priced Out
After fifteen years, Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement has been priced out of its home on 6 Noble St, in Toronto’s west end.
Posted November 5, 2018
The National Ballet of Canada Embarks on their First Tour of Russia
The National Ballet of Canada is touring to Russia for the first time in the company’s sixty-seven year history.
Posted October 17, 2018
