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Volume 1, Issue 3
July/August 1998

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Features

8th Annual fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists

By Shannon Potts

Artist Profile

By Megan Andrews

Geoff Bennett: Composer, Musician, Accompanist

Blending East and West

By Bridget Cauthery

Panda Dance Theatre’s “Butterfly Lovers”

Conversations in Process

By Kaeja d'Dance

Structured Innovations by Kaeja d’Dance

Departments

Dogs in Space [Mitch Kirsch; Jane Townsend]; Judith Miller; Wendy Chiles; Allison Ulan; Pam Johnson; Karen Kaeja; Michelle Silagy; Monica Burr; David Zurak; Gerry Trentham; Hope Terry; Ballet Jörgen; Julia Sasso

Smatterings

By Heidi Strauss

A trail mix of real life reminders about why dance matters.

Announcements

Heidi Strauss; Geoff Bennett; Ontario Arts Council

Health Beat

By Darryl Tracy

Putting Heart into Dance, Anaerobic and aerobic training for a dance artist

Dancefact

By Amy Bowring, Amy Bowring, Dance Collection Danse

1960s Toronto modern dance festivals

Open Page

By Susanna Hood

Musings

Moving Others

Most dance artists and presenters must negotiate the tension between creating work that meets their artistic goals, that is accessible to their community and that provides the fiscal support required to live as an artist and to run a company. Emma Doran speaks with artists, organizations and presenters across the country to discuss how they envision their audience, how they are seeking to reach those individuals and what constitutes meaningful engagement with them.

Video

Perpetually in Motion

Principal dancer and resident choreographer with The National Ballet of Canada, composer, creator and, again this summer, artistic director of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur – an inspired meeting point of Canadian and international dance and music – Guillaume Côté describes himself as neurotic about dance.

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