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Grace Wells-Smith (she/her) is a Toronto-based journalist, dance artist and teacher. She is currently completing the Master 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 also completed an internship with the CBC’s investigative unit. In addition to The Dance Current, her work has been published by CBC, Intermission and the Ryerson Review of Journalism. 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
Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners Announced
Like so many other events, the forty-first annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards found themselves right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted June 29, 2020
The National Ballet of Canada Met With Dancer Nicholas Rose After He Called Out the Company on Instagram
In the wake of protests over police brutality and systemic racism, Rose told the company to “do better.”
Posted June 6, 2020
Canadian Dance Teams Compete in World of Dance
The teams, consisting of teenagers, are from Vancouver and Edmonton and will be competing for $1 million.
Posted May 26, 2020
National Arts Centre and Facebook Canada to Provide $100,000 to Support Online Performances
Funding for online performances between now and March 31
Posted March 19, 2020
Reimagining The Possibilities
Andrew Tay named artistic director of Toronto Dance Theatre
Posted March 9, 2020
Shape-Shifting
Jean Grand-Maître announces he will be stepping down from his role as artistic director of Alberta Ballet in 2022. The role will be taken over by Christopher Anderson.
Posted March 3, 2020
Performing in Protest
Dance artists perform in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs
Posted February 18, 2020Backstage
Not about the steps By Grace Wells-Smith Volume 23, Issue 2Four Old Legs, by James Kudelka, opens at The Citadel in Toronto on April 11th.
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