Though she dresses mostly in graphic black and white, Stephanie Ballard has created a multi-coloured tapestry with her life in dance. With a self-declared passion for continuum, she has done it all from choreography to administration. Now also working as a dance archivist, she continues to create and is developing a new performance initiative for young Winnipeg dance artists.
Calling herself a choreographer with a small ‘c’, Nova Bhattacharya’s early work maskura pushed her onto the mainstage before she felt entirely ready. Developing a personal contemporary bharatanatyam aesthetic, she has had to forge her own choreographic education and has worked with the likes of Peggy Baker and Susanne Linke to understand how her own creative process unfolds.
According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, every child has the right to “participate fully in cultural and artistic life”. Does Canada measure up? One of many community consultations worldwide leading up to the March UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education, the December 2005 Youth Consultation on Arts and Learning in Ottawa put this statement on the table.
Ever felt like you wanted to dance in the street? The Ottawa-based Grasshoppa Dance Exchange does it regularly. They meet up at crosswalks, on street corners and in other public spaces to perform unannounced for unsuspecting audiences. They call it a “hop” and attendance is free.
International dance day message 2006; York University’s fine arts expansion; Update on Montréal festival; Clifford E. Lee award [Simone Orlando]; New Theatres [Young Centre for the Performing Arts; The Flanagan Theatre]; OAC reallocates dance funding; New brand for Ballet Jörgen Canada; ArtsWeek cancelled in Toronto; Staff change at Dance Manitoba; Beyond our borders
Shanthini Kangesan, student at Nrtyakala Canadian Academy of Indian Dance
How does dance measure up? (How many years does it take to become a professional dancer?)
The Sacre Celebration: Revisiting, Reflecting, Revisioning, a conference hosted by York University, recently took place in Toronto.
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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