The Cultch wins million-dollar VanCity Award; Bill Coleman wins Jacqueline Lemieux Prize; Edmonton dance pioneer dies; Peggy Baker awarded Order of Ontario; News at the National Ballet of Canada; Two winners for Toronto Emerging Artist Award [Amy Bowring; Malgorzata Nowacka]; Website of the Month: CanAsian Dance Festival: www.canasian.icomm.ca
Abandoned Ancesters, 1977; Gail Iness; Lisa Schwartz; Newfoundland Dance Theatre; Young Dancers; Kittiwake Dance Theatre
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.
Currently on a western Canada tour, the National Ballet of Canada is offering a mixed program featuring William Forsythe’s the second detail, Jer…
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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