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Suzanne Jaeger is currently employed as the research officer for the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. She spent several years as a philosophy professor at York and at the University of Central Florida. She has taught ballet at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, been a professional dancer, a choir director and a lifeguard. Suzanne works as a freelance dance writer.
Suzanne Jaeger's Work
Considering Classicism
Bharatanatyam and Ballet By Suzanne Jaeger Volume 10, Issue 9B2 is a new work created by British choreographer Mavin Khoo for the dancers of Sampradaya Dance Creations and Ballet Jörgen Canada. Here, artistic director Lata Pada and Bengt Jörgen talk with writer and scholar Suzanne Jaeger about the position and practice of classicism in bharanatyam and ballet.
Wen Wei Dance: Unbound
Unravelling the Meanings By Suzanne Jaeger Volume 10, Issue 5Unbound (2006), a culturally and aesthetically hybrid work of dance choreographed by Wen Wi Wang, is an example of a post-modern, post-identity-age dance work. How do we unravel the meanings tied up in this visually stunning piece?
The Spirit of Dance Weaves a Tale
By Suzanne Jaeger dance Immersion Showcase Presentation Dance Immersion“Throughout history, our people have been able to survive, through dance,” says Emerita Emerencia, who plays the role of a storyteller guiding the audience through various dances of the African Diaspora in the Dance Immersion Showcase Presentation’s Saturday matinee.
Posted July 8, 2006
The Innocence of Schoolgirls
By Suzanne Jaeger "Signs" Yvonne Ng, Princess ProductionsYvonne Ng’s two-part work, “Signs” is a well-mixed suspension of text, movement, music and percussion in a fluid performance of theatrical dance. Katherine Duncanson composed a new score for the first dance “Paper Women”, and Lee Pui Ming created a work for “Emerald Lies”. Ng also invited poet Lindsay Zier-Vogel to contribute to the creative process by translating into poetic language the physicality of the choreography she observed in rehearsals.
Posted February 25, 2006Tranquility, destruction, struggle, amusement
By Suzanne Jaeger Volume 9, Issue 2Four at the Winch: New Choreography by Sara Porter, Andrea Nann, Valerie Calam and Louis Laberge-Côté: Toronto: October 5-8, 2005 — Neap Tide by Sara Porter, p 27, Dead Flag by Andrea Nann, p 29, One Trick Pony by Valerie Calam, p 29, The Carnival of the Animals by Louis Laberge-Côté
The Innocence of Schoolgirls
By Suzanne Jaeger Volume 9, Issue 2Signs by Yvonne Ng: Toronto: February 9-11, 2006
Finding Entertainment in an Artist’s Obsessions
By Suzanne Jaeger Volume 9, Issue 2Body Remix/Goldberg Variations by Marie Chouinard: Toronto: November 3, 2005
Finding Entertainment in an Artist’s Obsessions
By Suzanne Jaeger "bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS" Marie Chouinard, Compagnie Marie ChouinardIt is not that Chouinard has run out of ideas. “bODY rEMIX” is a rich, wildly entertaining compilation of playful associations, sensual and erotic imagery and stunning virtuosic dancing enhanced by a cleverly woven mesh of percussive sounds, music, recorded speech, breathy sighs, grunts, orgasmic gasps and squeals.
Posted November 20, 2005
Tranquility, Destruction, Struggle, Amusement: Four Choreographers, Four Very Different Dances
By Suzanne Jaeger Four at the Winch Sara Porter, Andrea Nann, Valerie Calam, Louis Laberge-Côté, Toronto Dance TheatreA musician sits at the far left of the stage with a banjo and percussive instruments including bowls of water. In front of him is a small boat, “dry docked” with colourful nets hanging from it. Invoking familiar images of a seaside beach, a life jacket and bucket hang from ropes dropped from the fly, and at the front, seashells of various sizes and shapes are piled on the floor. The dance begins with …
Posted October 29, 2005
