Drawing inspiration from the physical world, Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance creates works that reflect indigenous priorities in their conception, creation and presentation. The results are powerful performances that appeal to their many audiences.
The work and creative processes of six acclaimed Canadian costume designers.
If dance performance and practice is increasingly understood to be produced by a variety of bodies and abilities, are we creating spaces that allow for those practices? Naomi Brand considers the physical structures and social ideas that allow dance spaces to be accessible.
Helen Simard discusses the issues of gender in contemporary dance with four Montréal-based dance artists.
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.
The May/June 2012 issue of The Dance Current print magazine includes an interview with Ana Alexandre.”To achieve the life you want, you need to learn t…
Toronto
ON
February 13-23 février 2019
The 40th annual Rhubard Festival focuses on experimentation, with artists exploring new possibilities in theatre, dance, music and performance art.