Jazz
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ Drive-In Show Is an Innovative Pandemic Performance
There is something in the details closes tonight By Jenna ShummoogumDecidedly Jazz Danceworks’ There is something in the details takes place through the windows of the company’s building. Music and voice-overs stream through a radio frequency that you can access in your car. Every vehicle is parked on an angle so that each cohort can have the best sightlines, and instead of applause, people honk their horns in appreciation. This is pandemic performance.
Posted March 20, 2021
Fall For Dance North Offers a Netflix-Style Festival
Like many other events, the sixth edition of the dance festival Fall For Dance North (FFDN) began online on Tuesday. But this festival is hosted on a new, Netflix-style website that features an array of performances, interviews and workshops.
Posted October 2, 2020
On the Ground
A Languid Blues Dancer
By Michèle MossThe Dance Current caught up Catherine Hayward while on tour with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks.
Posted December 21, 2019
Black and White Ball
Performance | Spectacle
Calgary AB
March 14 mars 2020
Jazz
Beautiful Noise
Performance | Spectacle
Calgary AB
April 23-10 mai 2020
Jazz
Juliet and Romeo
Performance | Spectacle
Calgary AB
January 16-26 janvier 2020
Jazz
A Glimmer of Hope
Rodney Diverlus and Syrus Ware’s burn, burned By Valeria NunziatoThrough their original work, burn, burned, Rodney Diverlus and Syrus Marcus Ware present a fictitious futuristic setting following a band of revolutionaries looking to salvage what is left after decades of race-driven war and destruction.
Posted October 7, 2019
Student Reporter Project
Insatiable and Inspired
By Cindy AnsahHow would you illustrate the life of a so-called musical madman – one with a successful musical career that spanned more than three decades but who was plagued with bouts of mental illness? Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD) did so with music, movement and a little madness.
Posted August 12, 2019
Student Reporter Project
Male Anger and Female Passion
By Emily LosierKimberly Cooper’s stab at provocative topics – domestic violence, sexualization and even toxic masculinity – recontextualizes and understands them in the context of current understandings of these issues.
Posted August 12, 2019
Dances with Trane
Performance | Spectacle
Toronto ON
April 2-4 avril 2020
8:00 | 20:00
Jazz
Shiamak’s Bollywood Jazz
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
September 19 septembre 2019
12:00 | 12:00
Bollywood, Contemporary, Jazz
The Black and White Ball
Fundraiser | Levée de fonds
Calgary AB
March 16 mars 2019
8:00 | 20:00
Jazz
Double Bill
Performance | Spectacle
AB
April 25-12 mai 2019
Jazz, Flamenco
Better Get Hit In Your Soul
Performance | Spectacle
AB
January 10-20 janvier 2019
8:00 | 20:00
Jazz
Dance Me
Performance | Spectacle
Edmonton AB
September 28-29 septembre 2018
7:30 | 19:30
Jazz
Dance Me
Performance | Spectacle
Calgary AB
September 20-22 septembre 2018
7:30 | 19:30
Jazz
Savion Glover featuring Marcus Gilmore
Performance | Spectacle
Toronto ON
June 26 juin 2018
8:00 | 20:00
Jazz, Tap
A Night at the Juke Joint
The latest from Holla Jazz By Valeria NunziatoUnder the artistic direction of Natasha Powell, Floor’d was a fresh spin on vernacular jazz – a journey to another era, complete with live jazz music that has spectators dancing along in their seats. From the strike of the first saxophone to the last dim of the lights, we were offered much more than a show: the audience was given an experience.
Posted May 22, 2018
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