Heidi Strauss gets set to unveil her first long-form company piece, created in collaboration with Toronto Dance Theatre.
Systemic change doesn’t come easy, but according to policy researcher and writer Shannon Litzenberger, that’s what’s required to keep arts and culture growing in Canada. In the first of a three-part series, Litzenberger describes a tipping point and the need to strategize for change.
A celebration of National Dance Week and International Dance Day in pictures from across Canada. CDA Executive Director Nathalie Fave opens with a letter while Vicki Adams Willis of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in Calgary delivers this year’s message to our very own ‘Dance Nation’.
Over decades he’s been the subject of gossip, speculation and scandal but Montréal choreographer and co-founder of Les Ballets Jazz and Ballet Montréal Eddy Toussaint keeps on keeping on.
The rollercoaster history of jazz dance in Canada is the subject of this animated discussion. Participants included Shawn Newman, Melissa Templeton, Eva von Gencsy, Ethel Bruneau, Michèle Moss and Vicki St Denys.
Choreographers from Canada’s National Ballet School
Jazz Dance Centre Director Kathryn Edgett
Using dance to rehabilitate and reconnect the mind, body and spirit
White Bean and Avocado Dip
Karmawear
Cabaret (1972) the film is released on Blu-ray.
Courtesy of Dance Collection Danse
Round dances used in Idle No More; Historic costume to be restored; Willy Blok Hanson (1914-2012)
As a part of our series, Dance Criticism: Perceptions, challenges and the future, Grace Wells-Smith speaks to four Canadian dance critics about how dance criticism fits into the current fold.
Soulful Messiah by Patrick Parson turns twelve this year as the company he directs turns twenty-five.
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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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