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Volume 1, Issue 8
January 1999

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Features

What the…?

By Bonnie Kim

Questions from the audience for the artist: Bonnie Kim speaks with Devraj Patnaik about his latest production Tanda/Lasya

Profile

1998 Blossoms: The Year in Review

written by Heidi Strauss & Darryl Tracy

Departments

Dancefact

By Amy Bowring, Amy Bowring, Dance Collection Danse

National Ballet of Canada

Mi-Young Kim Korean Dance Co.; Maryanne Marsh; Betty Colon; Graham McKelvie; The Dance Current; Karen Kaeja; Allen Kaeja; Patrick Matheson; Jennifer Watkins; Darcey Callison; Judith Koltai; Marie-Josée Chartier; Julia Drake; KaBoom and urban studio theatre; Derek Dangster

written by Darryl Tracy & Jamie Wright

Smatterings

By Heidi Strauss

Heath Beat

By Monica Gan

The Common Cold: How to Prevent, Ward off, or Survive

Caribana is Our Stage

Themes of becoming, shaping from and returning to are central to Caribbean performance arts. As one of these art forms, Carnival is a nuanced performance art practice rooted in the cultural memory of the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout Canada and the diaspora. But whose story is told (or not told) and in what context? The telling or omission of stories can be traced to a lack of understanding of the complexity of the Caribbean and its Carnival – a performance tradition that is more than the mass commodification, sexuality and “loud music” we often associate it with.

Video

Sunya

Sunya, choreographed in 2013 by Roger Sinha, is a piece based on the experimentation of four dancers, three musicians, a sound designer, a video artist and Sinha himself.

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