Big country, not enough resources, audience apathy – how presenters and curators are grappling with the challenges of the Canadian dance ecology. See a sidebar on what the dance community thinks about presenting practice on page 44.
The challenge of bringing the hereditary dances of the Gitxsan Nation to contemporary dance audiences fires the remarkable work of Margaret Grenier, artistic director of Vancouver’s Dancers of Damelahamid and the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival.
A loving tribute to Calgary’s Dancers’ Studio West’s studio theatre on the occasion of its closing by some of the dancers who have created and performed there.
In the space where clog dancing meets bullwhip, Viv Moore is at home. A master of the dramatically diverse, Moore holds an impressive list of credits, with actor, dancer, teacher, dramaturge and stage-combat coach among them. The intrepid Molly Johnson attempts to find out what makes Moore tick.
Kinesiology and dance at the University of Calgary; Lawrence Gradus (1936-2014); NBoC Principal Aleksandar Antonijevic to retire
Goh Ballet and Select Works/Mustard Seed in Vancouver; Dancetheatre David Earle and Silent Voices in Toronto; Fujiwara Dance Inventions and Eunoia in Toronto; Israel Galván and La Edad de Oro in Toronto; Maria Osende Flamenco Company in Halifax; Bust A Move in Montréal
The Dance Current speaks with Pite about Body and Soul, watching dance meant for the stage on a screen and the “slight sense of terror” that comes with choreographing. Body and Soul will stream for Canadians from Feb. 17 through 23.
Directed by Jenna Borisevich, For a While was shot in a dance studio on 16mm. It tells a story of unrequited love through dance: a couple shares in a fantasy, but only for a moment.
Saskatoon
SK
March 19, 2020-19 mars 2021
The Free Flow Dance Theatre Company collaborated with Saskatoon-based musician and composer Cassandra Stinn and Photographer Ken Greenhorn to produce their feature work of
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