Exploring the exciting world of contemporary circus in Québec. Writer Molly Johnson tracks the public and social infrastructures that have created a spirit of progressive collaboration there and investigates why the contemporary circus community is not as vibrant elsewhere in Canada.
Moving forward after the twenty-fifth anniversary of Joe Ink, Joe Laughlin reflects on life as a choreographer, dancer and community activist.
With text by Mercedes Déziel-Hupé, Lucy M. May, George Stamos, Philip Szporer, Holly Harris, Bee Pallomina and Johanna Bundon, Ben Portis, Sarah Todd, and Marie France Forcier. Images by Valerie Sangin, Guntar Kravis, Jared Reid, Anne-Flore de Rochambeau, Chrystia Chudczak, Joshua Armstrong, David Hou, Marc J Chalifoux Photography, Jeremy Mimnagh, Clancy Dennehy.
In April, the Art Curators Association of Québec (ACAQ) held an international symposium, Envisioning the Practice, which included discussions and presentations of dance and performance. Kathleen Smith discusses the major debates and subjects with particular attention to the ethics (and prejudices) of presenting and curating.
Toronto contemporary dancers Mairéad Filgate, Brodie Stevenson and Zhenya Cerneacov started their collective in 2008 during breaks while touring Ontario with Dusk Dances.
Choreographer and resident director for Odysseo the wildly popular equine extravaganza produced by Cavalia.
Recent graduates of the dance program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and are the recipients of the Training Society of Vancouver’s Emerging Artists scholarship for the summer’s Working Class program.
Toronto dance studio for adults with classes in classical ballet, ballet floor barre, modern dance and improvisation.
Toronto designer and dancer Duygu Basmaci.
Hypermobility and Upper Body Strength in Circus and Dance
Lolë Travel Yoga Mat
Summer Reading List
New Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre to open in 2015; Ballet Kelowna’s David LaHay departs as the season closes; New Standard for Dance Teacher Training
Dusk Dances in Vancouver, Haliburton, Peterborough, Hamilton and Toronto; Banff Summer Arts Festival with Heidi Strauss, Dance Masters and 2014 Indigenous Dance Residency; Danse Cadence with Voyage baroque en Paris in Montréal, Karen Jamieson Dance with solo|soul in Vancouver at Dancing on the Edge Festival; Festival des arts de Saint-Sauveur in Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, QC; The Naked Ballerina by Sarah Murphy-Dyson in Hamilton.
Tracey Norman interviews artist-mothers about how the pandemic has magnified the lack of support for artist-caregivers.
Flips, spins and balancing acts are just the foundation of the multi-award winning performance Traces by Montréal’s Les 7 doigts de la main. It tells the story of refugees who use the power of creating to cope with the pain of destruction.
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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