Urban
Melbourne Shuffle: Canada Represent
From Old School to New School, the Melbourne Shuffle continues to thunder on dance floor raves around the world.
Posted July 19, 2010
Cirque Éloize: iD
Montréal is taking its place as the world’s premiere circus destination.
Posted July 13, 2010
Luther Brown: A Jane-Finch Success Story
Giving a voice to its neighbourhood residents, Jane-Finch.
Posted July 8, 2010
Country Hip Hop: A Dance Craze
Perhaps you missed this American/Canadian craze, but Diane Horner is back making her rounds of YouTube, thanks to FourFour for digging up this video.
Posted July 1, 2010
Saturday Night Fever: Roaming Dance Party
Speaking of the G20 in Toronto, it looks like dance will be rousing rebellious spirits.
Posted June 23, 2010
Xbox 360: Kinect
The Xbox 360 is stepping up to the plate with great new gaming technology for dance games.
Posted June 15, 2010
Everyday Moves: Prison Reformer Broadcasts Dance
The April 2010 issue of The Dance Current print magazine includes an article in the series Everyday Moves highlighting a popular YouTube video of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center.
Posted April 14, 2010![BLUEPRINT CRU - week 7 - Second Performance - [Last Chance Challenge] ABDC](https://www.thedancecurrent.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/media-youtube/rsoHH6N4JlE.jpg?itok=gup-WRWw)
Blueprint Cru: Top Four on America's Best Dance Crew
We are now into the top four of America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV and the Canadian team, Blueprint Cru, is still hitting it strong.
Posted March 22, 2010
Blue Print for Life: Social Work Through Hiphop
Up until March 7th, Blue Print for Life is running a week long “Social Work Through Hiphop” program up in the Nunavik community of Kangirsuk.
Posted March 2, 2010
Melissa Williams: Extreme Dreams, Extreme Dance
The February 2010 issue of The Dance Current print magazine includes a feature on Canadian-born dancer and choreographer Melissa Williams.
Posted February 10, 2010
Just Dance
It’s been almost two months since the release of Just Dance, the music video game for the Nintendo Wii.
Posted January 5, 2010
A nightmare of bboy street
The Supernaturalz bboy crew recently represented Canada at R16 Korea - Incheon 2009.
Posted October 6, 2009
Ofilio Portillo and Crew, Onstage
By Kathleen Smith “Unbearable Prospect” GadflyStreet dance has become big business. The virtuosic moves and joyous energy that the original b-boys of New York and Los Angeles brought to street corners, empty parking lots and impromptu clubs of the seventies spawned a genuine movement movement.
Posted August 5, 2009
Enunciating History and the Present
By Samantha Mehra “Kaksori” Mi Young Kim Dance CompanyThe paradoxical ability of dance to transcend language and yet tell stories stirs the imagination. This fascinating quality was ever-present in “Kaksori”, Mi Young Kim Dance Company’s first full-evening program at Harbourfront’s Premiere Dance Theatre.
Posted November 24, 2007
New Hybrid Equations
By Lys Stevens “Sit back ya’ll”, “pi.r.squared”, “Text Messaging…” Julia Gutsik, Raul Guevara, 4EverFresh, Rebecca Halls, Arcus Intorchao Hula Hoop Duo, Patricia IraolaGénération bigarrée: a new title for a favourite series within Tangente’s programming. What does this new name suggest? Formerly Danses urbaines (an ambiguous title that became politicized as some artists resisted the fit), this series highlights artists working with high-energy movement forms referencing youth culture.
Posted November 18, 2007
Self-expression and entertainment: a fine balance
By Alana Gerecke, Kaija Pepper Dancing on the Edge 2007 Dancing on the EdgeAnother conversation-style festival review with some keen insider perspective.
Posted July 28, 2007
Spinning around art and outreach
By Marie Claire Forté HIP HOP 360 at the Canada Dance Festival Canada Dance FestivalThere 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, 2007
Two Takes on the Same Show
By Philip Szporer, Lys Stevens “Take it Back” Solid StateSolid State’s new work, “Take it Back”, is a dance that crosses boundaries, re-sourcing the language of hip hop and the Lindy, presenting elements of street dance and swing in a theatrical setting.
Posted November 12, 2006
Elastic Charisma
By Philip Szporer "Slicing Static" Victor Quijada, Rubberbandance GroupRubberbandance Group’s “Slicing Static” explores dance and theatre, working thematically with the insecurity and the uncertainty of our lives. Choreographer Victor Quijada warms up the audience members as soon as they enter the big open theatre space of Usine C, a former jam factory in the city’s east end that is home to the dance-theatre company Carbone 14.
Posted October 9, 2004
Urban Dance: Concertized
By Lys Stevens DNA: Definitions Non-Applicable - Urban Movements, Images and Sounds K8 Alsterlund, Sarah Febbraro, Sophia Gaspard, 4Temps, Nicholas Leichter, Serge Takri, Ghislaine DotéFor the second year running Tangente has collaborated with Montréal, arts interculturel, and a third presenter, this year the Gesu, centre de créativité, to frame this particular theme in dance creation, which is emerging in the Montréal contemporary dance scene.
Posted February 21, 2004
