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Volume 5, Issue 1
May 2002

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Features

Profile

By Aimee Dawn Robinson

Kathleen Rea: A dancer’s story

Social Studies

By Michael Crabb

Excerpt from Grant Strate, A Memoir by Grant Strate

Perspectives

By Sally Morgan

Dancing on the (Other) Edge

In the Making

By Penelope Reed Doob

Creating a Contemporary Story Ballet: James Kudelka’s The Contract

Departments

The Long View

By Carol Anderson

Trish Beatty: engaging a feminine wisdom

2002 Canada Dance Festival unveils programming; New national service organization for dance in Canada [The Canadian Dance Assembly/L’Assemblée canadienne de la danse]; Province forces closure of Nova Scotia Arts Council; New professional ballet company launched in New Brunswick [Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada]; Myles Warren appointed Dance Officer at OAC; National Ballet 50th Anniversary Season update; People in the news [David Duclos; Julie Bianchi; Donna Krasnow; Megan Andrews]

Dancefact

By Amy Bowring, Amy Bowring, Dance Collection Danse

Train travel to the 1950 Canadian Ballet Festival; Jerome Tremblay; John Dennis

Health Beat

By Darryl Tracy

Stretches for the Upper Torso and Arms

Ground Level

By Megan Andrews

Christine Heath, director of STAGE/D Productions for the Performing Arts

Moving Others

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.

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