Now celebrating his twelfth year as artistic director of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD), Brent Lott has brought his wealth of experience working with other significant Canadian artists to the Prairies. At WCD, Lott celebrates Winnipeg’s dance roots while lifting up a new generation of dancers.
This summer, a decade after the last performance of her remarkable thirty-year career, Evelyn Hart shared her knowledge and wisdom with the students of her intensive program, held at Dancemakers in Toronto.
How do we learn, retain and remember dance? What happens when a dancer forgets well-known choreography? How can we improve our recall for movement sequences? Carolyn Hebert spoke with diverse dance professionals about memory and the verbal cues, mental imagery and bodily experiences that shape their memory.
Three dance artists discuss using humour in dance and what experiences and artistic avenues are opened up by delving into the realm of the funny.
Contemporary dancer Kim Henry seeks out projects that explore the limits and the beauty of the human experience.
Thoenn Glover uses light and sound to create cinematic, otherworldly environments for dance
In this age of digital technology, experiences of performance are changing and increasingly moving online. For these three Canadian dance artists, Alexander Chung of Edmonton, Akira Uchida of Toronto and Tate McRae of Calgary, social media has become a positive tool, allowing them to reach a broader audience.
Avoiding repetitive strain injuries around performances
Nicole Hamilton helps connect minds and bodies through dance
Canada’s contribution to conferences concerning the African diaspora
Dancemakers is one of the oldest dance organizations in Toronto, and the losses associated with its closure are so great that they inspired collective action from many unwilling to accept them as inevitable.
The forty-minute solo by Toronto-based artist Linnea Swan is a comedic and poignant autobiography of the highs and lows of a life and career in dance – starting with having the last name Swan as a young ballerina.
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June 11-13 juin 2021
Springboard Artistic Director Alexandra Wells has partnered with artistic leaders from the Springboard network and beyond to curate three full days of panels, round tables
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