FIND Refound: a New Formula for the Festival international de nouvelle danse
Who is Teaching Our Children? The development of a Certificate in Dance Teacher Education
David Moroni retires from Royal Winnipeg Ballet School; Last round for O Vertigo’s Luna; Citron’s 2003 fFIDA Award winners; New Halifax company receives significant funding [Mocean Dance]; Hodgkinson in high demand [Greta Hodgkinson]; 2003 Dora Award winners [The Satie Project; Serge Bennathan; Carolyn Woods; Nicola Pantin]
This year in Canada, the conversation about diversity, inclusion and representation has been omnipresent. I’m profoundly happy that more presenters, curators and jurors have brought these words into their vocabulary. But I question what they’re really referring to. Do we all really feel and understand the urgency? More precisely, when asking, “What does the word diversity really mean?” the answers from the dance milieu are often incomplete, reflecting a lack of comprehension of the issues at stake.
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.
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March 26-21 mai 2021
Catch on demand performances from Fall for Dance North’s 2019 event at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), celebrating the legacy of Merce Cunningham (Available until May 21)
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