Marie Claire Forté is a dancer, choreographer, translator and writer. Former member of Le Groupe Dance Lab, she currently dances for choreographers in Montréal and Toronto. She has presented her own work in Ottawa, Montréal, Toronto and Saint-John’s.
Lola MacLaughlin 1952-2009; CDA reports to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage; Second season of So You Think You Can Dance Canada; Canadian Artists win at the Bruhn Competition; Recent dance on screen; Anniversaries
When it comes to mixed-ability dance, audience access and ability are a key part of the equation. How do we engage with and talk about unfamiliar performance experiences?
This month, Ottawa’s Propeller Dance tours to the International Disability Arts Symposium Momentum ‘09 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Philip Szporer and Marie Claire Forté in conversation throughout the Festival TransAmériques 2008.
Posted June 19, 2008There is something particular about this Canada Dance Festival (CDF) intermediate year programming, also the festival’s first thematic five-day event. Is it the YouTube trailer, the graffiti artists spraying large wood panels outside the National Arts Centre (NAC) box office, the abundance of youth sporting hoodies and baseball caps, the men outnumbering the women by a proportion of ten to one?
Posted July 2, 2007This May marked the inaugural program of the Montréal-based dance and theatre event, Festival TransAmériques. To cover the dance programming at this year’s premiere event, The Dance Current invited writers Marie Claire Forté (Ottawa) and Philip Szporer (Montréal) to exchange their views in an e-mail conversation. Here are their evocative and emphatic impressions.
Posted June 21, 2007In 1987, ten choreographers and dancers (Francine Gagné; Louise Bédard; Sylvain Émard; Lucie Grégoire; Carole Ip; Rodrigue Jean; Jocelyne Sarasin; Richard Simas; Leanne Smith; Tedi Tafel) were working together in Montréal. They wanted a permanent home and joined to create Circuit-Est. The choreographic centre celebrates twenty years this month.
Jean-Pierre Perreault’s choreographic heritage moves forward after a long process of restructuring.
Canada Dance Festival 2006 Mixed Program #2: Ottawa: June 7 Calm Abiding by José Navas, performed by Nova Bhattacharya; Man Within by Karen Jamieson; Edge by Paul-André Fortier, performed by Randy Joynt
Fluid Stability, mixed program with three premieres: When Skin Separates from Bone by Margie Gillis: Ottawa: June 3