Nineteen-year-old Jordan Clark from Tottenham, Ontario, was crowned Canada’s Favourite Dancer on the fourth and final season of So You Think You Can Dance Canada.
Three major policy and research projects around dance are currently being rolled out across the country. The Regroupement québécois de la danse’s Master Plan, the Canadian Dance Assembly’s I Love Dance/j’aime la danse campaign and the Canada Council for the Arts Dance Office’s Mapping Dance Project all seek to achieve a better understanding of Canadian dance culture in order to describe it, protect it and promote it.
Jennifer Homans’ best-selling book Apollo’s Angels mourns the demise of ballet. Many practitioners beg to differ. How is ballet doing?
All dance is about being in the body but in Marie Chouinard’s extraordinary work, the corporeality of the body is front and centre.
Shantala Shivalingappa
Courus: a basic ballet travelling step
Jarrett Siddall, performer with Edmonton’s Ukrainian Shumka Dancers since 2006 and currently in his third year of training at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
Cold Weather Comfort and Safety
T is for Tutu: A Ballet Alphabet by Sonia Rodriguez
Photo courtesy of Dance Collection Danse
David Y.H Lui 1944-2011; SWAP IT! event aims to satisfy community's needs; NAC Foundation announces CEO's National Fund
It is perhaps the presence of the body – and a desire to express one’s self through and from the body – that continues to define dance as an art form.
PPS Danse is about to embark on tour with Danse Lhasa Danse, a creation by Pierre-Paul Savoie that pays homage to singer Lhasa De Sela.
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March 26-21 mai 2021
Catch on demand performances from Fall for Dance North’s 2019 event at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), celebrating the legacy of Merce Cunningham (Available until May 21)
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