Jae Blaze has spent over a decade introducing mainstream dance audiences to the rhythms of dancehall technique.
Three artists, from Saint John’s, Calgary and Whitehorse, worked in each other’s communities to consider water, rivers and our collective identities.
Two dancers discuss the implications of concussions and the recognition, treatment, prevention and significance of this often misunderstood brain injury.
What are the benefits and drawbacks of moving from a dance career to one in fitness instruction? Through her interviews with five successful fitness instructors from different disciplines, Deanna Paolantonio considers if and how well dance and fitness “fit.”
Jacob Niedzwiecki is creating a web of code, space and movement.
This year in Canada, the conversation about diversity, inclusion and representation has been omnipresent. I’m profoundly happy that more presenters, curators and jurors have brought these words into their vocabulary. But I question what they’re really referring to. Do we all really feel and understand the urgency? More precisely, when asking, “What does the word diversity really mean?” the answers from the dance milieu are often incomplete, reflecting a lack of comprehension of the issues at stake.
Principal dancer and resident choreographer with The National Ballet of Canada, composer, creator and, again this summer, artistic director of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur – an inspired meeting point of Canadian and international dance and music – Guillaume Côté describes himself as neurotic about dance.
ON
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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