Gradimir Pankov marks ten years as artistic director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal this year. With strong connections to the European ballet scene, he has been putting a unique signature on the company.
Choreographer Susanna Hood speaks of her new work, Shudder, a trio inspired by the work of British painter Francis Bacon and created for and with Alanna Kraaijeveld and Dan Wild.
With their joint exploration of discipline-specific approaches to research and of the possibilities and limits of cross-disciplinary co-creation, choreographer Gail Lotenberg, behavioural ecologist Dr. Mark Winston, and the other Experiments collaborators dig deeply into how science and dance function as ways of knowing.
Pirouettes
Brent Lott, artistic director of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers
To Summer School or Not to Summer School
Dance Sensation! by Majesco Entertainment Company for Wii
Arnold Spohr 1923-2010; New international dance festival in Toronto; John Ottmann brings changes to Quinte; New creation centre for Québec [Centre International de Recherche et de Création]
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.
The Norwegian contemporary dance company Carte Blanche is hitting Canada, first at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa with 3 O’Clock in the Afternoo…
Montréal
QC
February 16-8 avril 2021
This intensive will explore the tendus and dégagés of ballet to the spinal work of contemporary dance and mudras of Indian dance in a hybrid new way to move.
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