Over her thirty-year practice, Isabelle Van Grimde has remixed dance and technology, exchanging insights and ideas and working across disciplines. Szporer sat down with the Belgian-born, Montréal-based choreographer to discuss her introduction to movement, the beginnings of Studio 303, her company Van Grimde Corps Secrets and her newest work, Eve 2050, which utilizes technology as “a form of magic.”
Two new Canadian dance projects reimagine the works of founding modern dance artists.
Dance has a long and tenuous relationship with ideas of intellectual ownership that is becoming even more complex as digital media is incorporated into artistic practice. How are contemporary dance artists navigating their understandings of ownership, authorship and the role of intellectual property in their art-making processes?
A music and dance genre, dancehall has long been a catalyst for intercultural learning and social change in Jamaica and abroad. Canada boasts thriving dancehall scenes, but, despite its ubiquity in popular culture, dancehall’s founding narrative as a resistance and peacekeeping movement in postcolonial Jamaica is little-known to the millions who consume the culture.
Jera Wolfe, in his third season with Red Sky Performance, talk about the opportunity to inform Canada’s next generation of ballet dancers and what he has upcoming.
This recipe is, according to Goh, one that balances “nutritional value paired with delicious taste.” She explains: “Carbs are difficult as most are also heavy in the amount of fat and simple sugars. I found with my routine that I did not want to be weighed down by a heavy breakfast, but I still need protein. This banana bread recipe, which I tweaked, enabled me to get a good start to my day. Hope you like it.”
The Chimera Project’s artistic director and choreographer Malgorzata Nowacka is currently working on Omen, a piece that began in 2016 as an exploration of the First Nations’ teachings of the Seven Grandfathers.
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.
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.
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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