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Volume 6, Issue 4
October 2003

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Features

Profile

By Randy Joynt

Creative Process: The countdown, Mark Godden’s The Magic Flute

Perspectives

By Marie Claire Forté

Living with an Injury

In the Making

By Lys Stevens

FIND Refound: a New Formula for the Festival international de nouvelle danse

Social Studies

By Ann Kipling Brown

Who is Teaching Our Children? The development of a Certificate in Dance Teacher Education

Departments

Making Waves

By Sally Morgan

Sarah Stoker: On Solid Ground

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]

Dancefact

By Amy Bowring, Amy Bowring, Dance Collection Danse

Jacqueline Lemieux; Octobre en Danse

Ground level

By Karen Stern

Geoff Bouckley: into the flux

Decolonizing Dance Stages

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.

Video

Perpetually in Motion

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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