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In the Cypher
Three street-to-stage performances in Montréal By Helen Simard2019 might be the year that the Montréal stage dance community finally catches on to what’s going on in our city’s street dance scene.
Posted March 1, 2019Dancing in Domestic Spaces
By Helen Simard Volume 21, Issue 1Traditional black box theatres allow audiences and performers anonymity from each other. How does domestic performance put these relationships at the forefront of the work?
Moving Forward, Looking Back
By Carol Anderson, Kate Stashko, Helen Simard Volume 20, Issue 4A special three-part feature on dance in Canada
Slippery Identities
By Helen Simard Make Banana CryIn their new work, Make Banana Cry, Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson tease and out the tensions between identities and stereotypes in the layers and performance of Asian-ness in western society.
Posted April 19, 2017In the Shadows
By Helen Simard Volume 20, Issue 1They work under many titles, but rehearsal directors and dance dramaturges provide essential support to the creative, technical and administrative work of choreographers and dance artists. Four practitioners who have worked in this position discuss how they understand their role and what they bring to the creative process.
Moving Bodies
How does the centrality of bodily experience affect interdisciplinarity in dance? By Helen SimardIt is perhaps the presence of the body – and a desire to express one’s self through and from the body – that continues to define dance as an art form.
Posted October 26, 2016
Moving Beyond the Pas-de-Deux
Four Montréal-based dance artists discuss gender in contemporary dance By Helen SimardHelen Simard discusses issues of gender in contemporary dance with four Montréal-based dance artists.
Posted August 15, 2016Moving Bodies
Special feature on interdisciplinarity: Part 2 By Helen Simard Volume 19, Issue 4How does the centrality of bodily experience affect interdisciplinarity in dance?
The Inner Beat
Cai Glover of Cas Public By Helen Simard Volume 18, Issue 6Cai Glover, a dancer with Montréal’s Cas Public who is hard of hearing, finds new strength and creativity by embracing his identity as a dancer with a disability.
