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Volume 6, Issue 5
November 2003

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Features

Profile

By Bridget Cauthery

Zab Maboungou: an unshakeable concern for art in life

Social Studies

By Pamela Newell, Alana Gerecke

Credit: Who Takes It? Defining the dancer’s role in the creative process

In the Making

By Anna Mouat

Davida Monk: Desire and the First Law of Motion

Departments

Making Waves

By Kaija Pepper

Bright Transformations [Holly Bright]

CDA Executive Director resigns [Hamal Docter]; fFIDA in crisis; Chouinard honoured by Governor General; Young Canadian wins RAD medal [Alex Wong]; Lock tours with Governor General; MOTUS O receives Eastern recognition; New memorial award [William Marrié]; Foot tape and foam rollers now readily available in Toronto; A new home for The Dance Current; Website of the Month: Verve Mwendo: www.vervemwendo.com

Dancefact

By Amy Bowring, Amy Bowring, Dance Collection Danse

Verity Sweeny

Ground Level

By Amy Bowring

Iro Valaskakis Tembeck: giving a voice to Canadian dance

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

Scholarship Dance: Vancouver and Toronto

The dance training school for emerging artists Scholarship Dance is ready to set up shop in Toronto. Their successful Vancouver school has been runnin…

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Sinha Technique Training for professional dancers and students

Sinha Danse

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.