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Trialogue

What we said about she said

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.

Profile

The Movement That We Are: Linda Rabin and Continuum

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.”

In the Making

Freedom and trust: The Making of James Kudelka’s An Italian Straw Hat

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.

Social Studies

Light and the dancing body

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.

From the Editor

Making Waves

Julia Aplin: transformations

Short Waves

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

Vantage Point

Balancing the Equation: a personal commentary by Ellen Busby for the Canadian Dance Assembly

Dancefact

David Yeddeau

Ground level

Liliane Marleau Graham otherwise known as Miss Liliane