From fashion to footwear, from gear to gadgets – here’s what’s on every dancer’s wish list this holiday season. Featuring models from the amateur and professional communities and goodies in every price range – many of them made in Canada.
From ballet classes growing up in Québec City to company dancer with O Vertigo to ringleading collaborator with her own Montréal-based Mayday Danse, Mélanie Demers finds her place making work that is hard-edged, funny and heartbreaking.
Former members of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal speak out as the company tries to move on from labour woes.
Stars in their own spheres, choreographer Robert Binet and composer Owen Pallett are collaborating on a new work for The National Ballet of Canada. Here they chat about how they got together and what they’re up to with this new work for fourteen dancers, full orchestra, harpsichord and soprano.
Dance/teacher/administrator Asha Marshall
Miso Soup
Acuback
Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreography by Elizabeth Kendall.
Rocking the Boat: Celebrating Queer Content in Canadian Concert Dance by Pamela Grundy for Dance Collection Danse.
Courtesy of Dance Collection Danse
Farewell Nathalie; New Director at Tangente; Comings and Goings at the Canada Council for the Arts
Street dance is vibrant and brimming with talent in Vancouver. Into the Tao is a journey into a street dancer’s mind and the psychology of going into a dance battle. In this project, Kim Sato explores the reasons why street dancers put themselves through battles, when it can be incredibly stressful and physically demanding.
Running January 17th through 30th, the 2010 Interrarium creative residency is welcoming a new batch of multidisciplinary artists to The Banff Centre for the Arts.
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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