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Making Show Choir
The Real Glee
By Moze MossanenIn recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in show choirs, thanks to American television programs like Glee. Moze Mossanen catches up with some of the teachers who make it happen, asking them about the challenges and rewards of working in arts education.
In Conversation
at Ballet BC
Dancers Alexis Fletcher and Christoph von Riedemann join choreographer Lesley Telford to discuss the process of creating her new work, An Instant, part of a triple bill that opens Ballet BC’s season. The work explores risk, vulnerability and precariousness through pushing the limits of technique and comfort. Compiled by Janet Smith.
In Mocean
Susanne Chui
By Jane DoucetFrom Halifax to Toronto and back, Susanne Chui took a circuitous path through life and dance before taking up the artistic directorship of Mocean Dance. Jane Doucet sits down with Chui to talk about making dance in Nova Scotia.
Canadian Dance by the Numbers
A Report
By Kathleen SmithKathleen Smith enumerates research conducted by the Canada Council for the Arts on dance across the country. She queries its major contributions and how the dance community might use this data as a resource in the future.
Holiday Gift Guide
Our search for Canadian products that would appeal to dancers and dance aficionados led us to some amazing – and unexpected – gift ideas for your holiday season. Full of classics and recent hits, our guide makes it a little easier to find an inspired and local gift to add to your wish list. We also asked a number of dance stars from across the country what goods they can’t live without.
Departments
Emerging Views
Point of View Dance Project
By Kate MorrisKylie Thompson and Amy Adams co-founded Point of View (POV) Dance Project in late 2013. They met while pursuing undergraduate studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, where they began collaborating on various dance projects. In August 2014, the company completed a series of commissioned performances at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, as part of an urban art installation titled Sketch.
Making Waves
Vanessa Goodman
By Naomi BrandVancouver-based dance artist and co-artistic director of The Contingency Plan, Goodman has garnered the support of local presenters, stellar collaborators and impressive interpreters.
Inspired!
David Nixon
By Brittany DugganArtistic Director Jean Grand-Maître invited Canadian choreographer David Nixon to remount his work The Three Musketeers on Alberta Ballet. Nixon, who was born in Chatham, Ontario, trained at Canada’s National Ballet School and danced with The National Ballet of Canada before moving abroad.
Studio Now
Harbour Dance Centre
By Kate MorrisWith five studios at their disposal and roughly 1,000 students per week, Harbour Dance Centre has become a juggernaut in the Vancouver training scene, attracting some of the country’s best teachers in each genre and students with a variety of training needs.
Healthy Dancer: Training & Conditioning
How to Dance Gracefully in Heels
By Dr. Blessyl BuanDancing in heels is sexy … and precarious. Women wear beautiful and sometimes uncomfortable heels for ballroom, jazz, burlesque and tap, so much so that heels classes have been gaining popularity across the country. And men are joining in, too! How do dancers make wearing heels look so easy? What are their secrets?
Confluences: On the Screen
Filmmaker Élisabeth Desbiens: Dancing the City
By Marie France ForcierA go-getter, blessed with a creative disposition that includes a love for writing and a degree in film, the transition from dance artist to filmmaker occurred naturally for Élisabeth Desbiens.
Check It Out
Librairie Formats/ Formats Bookstore
Initiated by the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec, Librairie Formats features publications on dance, art, performance, theory, music, literature, film and design in both English and French.
Body Language
Posturing
Women in Clothes is a book of projects by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton that is a creative inquiry into the performance of clothing, femininity, necessity and all of the latent thought processes associated with these.
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Moving Others
Most dance artists and presenters must negotiate the tension between creating work that meets their artistic goals, that is accessible to their community and that provides the fiscal support required to live as an artist and to run a company. Emma Doran speaks with artists, organizations and presenters across the country to discuss how they envision their audience, how they are seeking to reach those individuals and what constitutes meaningful engagement with them.
Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation
Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation, choreographed by Mark Godden with original music composed by Christos Hatzis, was inspired by a story by Joseph Boyden about a young aboriginal woman, her multiple identities in the modern world and the trauma caused by violence against indigenous people
Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA
Eifman Ballet Theater of St. Petersbourg
Toronto
ON
May 9-11 mai 2019
8:00 | 20:00
Civic Theatres Toronto’s 2018/19 season closes with a bold and dramatic spectacle from Russian choreographer Boris Eifman.
