As at home on the concert stage as she is in the dance studio, Montréal’s multi-talented Clara Furey talks about her collaboration with Benoît Lachambre – the equally uncategorizable Les chutes incandescentes – premiering at the Festival TransAmériques in May.
At a time when the term itself has become a tool for marketing any number of events and activities, what is at the heart of the concept? Philip Szporer talks to a variety of directors and visionaries on what “festival” means to them.
Capturing dance on film has preoccupied artists from Eadweard Muybridge to Wim Wenders. Now a young Toronto artist is adding his experiments in 360 degree motion capture to the canon of creativity.
Writer MJ Thompson invites participants from diverse Occupy encampments to share their experiences and pictures. Together with Thompson’s essay on the now suppressed yet still iconic Occupy poster with its ballerina poised atop a raging bull, this “scrapbook” explores the movement of dissent.
Last July, when the Canadian magazine Adbusters published an unusual centerfold – a poster with a hash tag that would launch an historic political movement – dance held the centre.
After years of uncertainty, Vancouver’s Ballet BC is financially and creatively in the black. With one hand firmly on the steering wheel, Artistic Director Emily Molnar talks about juggling her leadership role with her work as a choreographer and performer.
Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company
Bollywood for the masses
Jesse McMann-Sparvier, dancer, choreographer and teacher working in hoop and contemporary dance in Winnipeg
Diana Reyes (aka Fly Lady Di)
Go Country or Go Home (Xbox 360 Country Dance All Stars)
Courtesy of Dance Collection Danse
Update on arts funding; There’s No Place Like A Home; Ken Roy 1963-2012
The Creative Gesture, the inaugural contemporary dance residency led by sessional Banff dance director Emily Molnar and program head Stephen Laks, demonstrates responsiveness within a very ambitious and structured four weeks in the mountains.
The Dancing on the Edge festival in Vancouver, running July 5th through 14th, has a great lineup of artists this year. Among them is Julio Hong of Montr…
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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