Contemporary

Remembering Pierre-Paul Savoie, Founding Artistic Director of PPS Danse

Pierre-Paul Savoie was a pro. Nimble in mind and body, feisty and funny. I knew him initially (now more than 35 years ago) – when I was a budding dance writer and he was a student in Concordia University’s dance program.

Posted March 2, 2021

Ne Sans Opera & Dance

Hourglass

Broadcast | Diffusion

BC
March 4-6 mars 2021
Contemporary

Company 605

Brimming

Broadcast | Diffusion

BC
April 29-1 mai 2021
Contemporary

Kinesis Dance somatheatro

Artist-in-Residence Online Studio Showing

Open Rehearsal | Répétition publique

BC
March 9-16 mars 2021
Contemporary

Dorotea Saykaly Receives the First Emily Molnar Emerging Choreographer Award at Ballet BC

While some may associate the term ‘emerging’ with ‘new’ or ‘novice’, Saykaly likes it for its evocation of continuous learning.

Posted February 16, 2021

Nerves And Thrills: A Q & A with Crystal Pite

Pite’s work Body and Soul will stream next week, just for audiences in Canada By Grace Wells-Smith

The Dance Current speaks with Pite about Body and Soul, watching dance meant for the stage on a screen and the “slight sense of terror” that comes with choreographing. Body and Soul will stream for Canadians from Feb. 17 through 23.

Posted February 12, 2021

Sinha Danse

Sinha Technique Training for professional dancers and students

Intensive | Atelier

Montréal QC
February 16-8 avril 2021
Contemporary

The Chaos of Possibility

Kevin Jesuino explores how Queerness, liveness and failure might provide insight into reinvention, approximately one year after the onset of COVID-19 By Jillian Groening

Jesuino examines Queerness, liveness and failure in his work, Cruising at 30 Kilometers a Second and Attempting Not To Crash. The work asks what might emerge if we embrace failure and collapse.

Posted February 11, 2021

Paris Opera Ballet, Crystal Pite

Body and Soul

Broadcast | Diffusion

Various All
February 17-23 février 2021
Contemporary

Dancers of Damelahamid / Photo by Derek Dix

Made in BC Celebrates 15 Years With an Interactive Virtual History

The website shows dance hoops, a sweatshirt, a soup can and a hodgepodge of other items tumbling from the trunk of a hatchback on a B.C. highway. Click on any one of them and you’ll be whisked into a story about a dance artist who has toured the province through Made in BC – Dance on Tour or one of the community programs it has supported.

Posted February 3, 2021

MOVETHECOMPANY, Joshua Beamish

PROXIMITY: A collection of short works

Broadcast | Diffusion

Vancouver BC
February 25-11 mars 2021
Contemporary

Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers

Begin Again

Performance | Spectacle

Winnipeg MB
January 22-31 janvier 2021
Contemporary

Shay Kuebler Radical System Art

Artist-in-Residence Studio Showing

Broadcast | Diffusion

Vancouver BC
January 25-1 février 2021
Contemporary

Beatty in Lessons in Another Language in 1980 / Photo by Andrew Oxenham, courtesy of Dance Collection Danse

Patricia Beatty, Co-Founder of Toronto Dance Theatre, Remembered as a ‘Warrior Queen’

Patricia Beatty was a multi-faceted artist: a choreographer, a dancer, a teacher, a poet. She was a true pioneer – one of the most influential figures of modern dance in Canada. She’s best known as co-founder of Toronto Dance Theatre, along with David Earle and Peter Randazzo. Her death at age 84 marked decades of choreography, teaching and writing that inspired thousands of young dancers.

Posted December 16, 2020

Springboard Performance