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Focus on Summer Training
Reflections and Perspectives
By Brigid MacAulay, Naomi Brand, Marie Claire Forté, Elizabeth LamontSummer intensives will provide you with new perspectives, spur you on to new things, and broaden your network and your horizons.
Anik Bissonnette
Les Grands, Motherhood & The Future
In June, Anik Bissonnette retires as principal dancer with Les Grands Ballets Candiens de Montréal. Here, she talks with contemporary dancer/choreographer Laurence Lemieux about her life in dance, her daughter and what’s next.
Deborah Dunn
Staging Absurd Theatricality
By Marie Claire FortéFrom her first forays into dance performance, Montréal-based choreographer Deborah Dunn has taken an absurdly theatrical approach to her work.
David Hou
Dance Photographer
Since becoming a professional photographer in 1998, David Hou’s career has taken off like a rocket. Here, we feature some of his more recent work.
Departments
Short Waves
By Sarah LochheadFederal Budget falls short for the arts; New company premieres in Niagara Region [Niagara Dance Company; Kathleen Martinez-Hughes; Mary Jo Mullins]; Atlantic Ballet Theatre finds home in historic Moncton landmark; FIFA showcases dance films; International dance festival in Montréal includes dance [Festival TransAmériques]; Bissonnette new face of Shmink Cosmetics; Dunn receives Cirque de Soleil Prize [by Brittany Duggan]; Hari Krishnan wins New Pioneers Award; Marie Chouinard wins 22nd Grand Priz du Conseil des Arts de Montréal; Awards in BC [Chengxin Wei; Wen Wei Wang; Alison Denham; Judith Garay]; Quick Currents [Governor General’s Performing Arts Award; Kinetic Studio; Jerry and Joan Lozinski of Toronto made a multi-million dollar gift to three dance organizations in March; Increase to the Ontario Arts Council’s annual budget]
Expert advice
On Running a Summer Workshop from Heidi Strauss and Darryl Tracy
Dance data
How does dance measure up? (Consumer spending on culture, category breakdown)
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