She said, a new work by Vancouver choreographer Alvin Tolentino for his company Erasga, explores the feminine in a layered, multimedia context. Writers Imogen Whyte and Mary Kelly immersed themselves in the work, absorbing and questioning its meaning(s). Here, they reflect and discuss their experience with interjections and responses from Tolentino.
In the late 1980s, choreographer, teacher and LADMMI co-founder Linda Rabin felt the strong impulse to leave dance and open herself to new possibilities. Through various body-based practices, she found her way to Emilie Conrad’s Continuum work and returned to dance as a Continuum teacher. Says Robin: “In Continuum, we practice bringing our attention not so much to the movement that we do but more so to the movement that we are.”
For James Kudelka’s An Italian Straw Hat, set on the National Ballet of Canada, there were the usual collaborative suspects – librettist, composer, designer – but in this and other Kudelka works, the dancers also make significant contributions during the creative process. With the input of his team, he’s creating a danceable farce with some high fashion moments and a little bit of raunch.
Contemporary lighting design has reached a degree of technical evolution where, far from simply illuminating the performers, it is now able to animate and manipulate the story itself. Now we can fill a blackened room with suns, stars and spotlights of our own creation.
Hart takes final bow with RWB; Joe artists paid in full; Inaugural Iris Garland Award granted [Amber Funk Barton]; Richard Lyons 1925-2005; Canadian costume designer recognized [Caroline O’Brien]; Timlock taps through Russia
Balancing the Equation: a personal commentary by Ellen Busby for the Canadian Dance Assembly
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.
Running January 17th through 30th, the 2010 Interrarium creative residency is welcoming a new batch of multidisciplinary artists to The Banff Centre for the Arts.
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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