With his dance company, Radical System Art, lined up for multiple tours in the coming months, Artistic Director Shay Kuebler sits down with Rachel Maddock to talk about his life in dance.
See the bold burlesque moves of four politically motivated Canadian burlesque troupes whose performances unseat gender, racial and colonial narratives. Featuring Virago Nation, Les Femmes Fatales, Boylesque TO and Gender F_ck.
Within the past five years, there has been an influx of dance class videos within the commercial dance community on social media platforms. With this influx comes new conversations and debates on the ethics behind videography in the classroom.
Reflecting on his participation in Black arts practices, charles c. smith offers guidelines for approaching creation and developing a rapport between professional artists and community members that allows for more intense sharing and creative development. Plus, The Dance Current interviews other artists doing community-based work.
What exactly is physical literacy (PL), and why does it matter to dancers? Let’s start with the easy answer: think of it as “bodily intelligence.”
A discussion of truth, process and objective in No Woman’s Land
This winter The National Ballet of Canada will bring Christopher Wheeldon’s neoclassical adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland back to the stage. Running from March 7th through 17th at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Lewis Carroll’s classic tale will star Jillian Vanstone as Alice. The Dance Current caught up with her backstage.
The Dance Current speaks with Pite about Body and Soul, watching dance meant for the stage on a screen and the “slight sense of terror” that comes with choreographing. Body and Soul will stream for Canadians from Feb. 17 through 23.
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