Works-in-Progress Shows: celebrating an anniversary and raising some questions
Letters to the Editor
Dancemakers receives Lieutenant Governor’s Awards; Moving Pictures winners go on tour [Sola; Jealous Guy; Ere Mela Mela; Le Mystere Babillée]; Arabesque Dance Company holds Arab-Canadian fundraiser; Theatre director and critic Urjo Kareda dies at age 57; Kaeja d’Dance launches Kd’D2; Canada Council announces plans for new arts funding; Ontario Arts Council program receives $50,000 to help arts organizations; Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists launches Training Subsidy Pilot Project; Website of the Month: www.artscanada.cbc.ca
Diane Moore: shattering the myth that there’s no dance east of Montréal
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.
This summer’s festival in Quebec’s Laurentian region, July 31-August 9, is a major event featuring the Martha Graham Dance Company, Guillaume Côté, La Compagnie Marie Chouinard and International Ballet: A Night with the Stars.
Montréal
QC
February 16-8 avril 2021
This intensive will explore the tendus and dégagés of ballet to the spinal work of contemporary dance and mudras of Indian dance in a hybrid new way to move.
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