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Volume 12, Issue 2
Summer Annual 2009

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Features

How Long?

By Michael Crabb

It’s About Time: 60 Dances in 60 Minutes by Dancemakers: Toronto: February 11-14, 2009

Beneath the gesture, under our skin

By Philip Szporer

La Chambre Blanche by O Vertigo: Montréal: February 12-14, 18-21 and 25-28, 2009

Character Study: Human frailty, despair, courage, resilience

By Michael Crabb

The future memory heartbreak junction by Sasha Ivanochko, blackandblue dance projects: Toronto: December 11-13, 2008

Resonant and restless voices

By Holly Harris

Sauti by NAfro Dance Productions: Winnipeg: October 23-26, 2008

Two plus four (excerpt)

By Philip Szporer

Murugesan and Wadge at the Festival Transatlantique Montréal: Montréal: October 1-4, 2008; Aval by Meena Murugesan; One Hundred Returnings by Chanti Wadge

Whirlwind Celebration

By Salena Kitteringham

Shumka at 50 … An Anniversary Concert: Edmonton: March 19-20, 2009

Beyond one man’s story

By Kaija Pepper

Cock-Pit by Wen Wei Dance: Vancouver: February 24-28, 2009

A Month of Dance in Vancouver

By Kaija Pepper, Rob Kitsos

Vancouver International Dance Festival: March 3-April 4, 2009

Unresolved encounters

By Michael Crabb

Dis/(sol/ve)r by Christopher House for Toronto Dance Theatre: Toronto: November 18-22, 2008

How do you critique a dying man’s art?

By Philip Szporer

Over my Dead Body by Dave St-Pierre: Montréal: January 20-25, 2009

Departments

Editorial

By Megan Andrews

Time, presence and memory

Vantage Point

By Shannon Litzenberger

Arts on the public agenda: A year of cultural policy making

This year in Canada, the conversation about diversity, inclusion and representation has been omnipresent. I’m profoundly happy that more presenters, curators and jurors have brought these words into their vocabulary. But I question what they’re really referring to. Do we all really feel and understand the urgency? More precisely, when asking, “What does the word diversity really mean?” the answers from the dance milieu are often incomplete, reflecting a lack of comprehension of the issues at stake.

Video

LITTLE LADY - Sandrine Lafond - Produced by Paolo A. Santos - Paolo Santos

Sandrine Lafond: Little Lady

The Canadian Fringe festival circuit is set to close in coming weeks with a final hoopla in Vancouver, September 6th through 16th. Running the gamut is…

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