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The Canadian Cultural Experience Includes Dance
The Toronto dance community speaks up
By Shannon LitzenbergerIn a July 21st article, the Toronto Star highlighted a “comprehensive list of things to watch, see and listen to that make us truly Canadian”. Dance was not included. A flurry of emails from members of the Toronto dance community created a stir and subsequent conversation with editors at the newspaper may have promising results.
Weighing in on Canada’s Dance Culture
10 Canadian choreographic masterworks of the twentieth century
Businessman in the Process of Becoming an Angel(1983), Édouard Lock; Chagall (1989), Ginette Laurin; Double Quartet (1978), Brian Macdonald; Glass Houses (1983) Christopher House; In Paradisum (1983), James Kudelka; Joe (1984), Jean-Pierre Perreault; Les Males heures (1989), Paul-André Fortier; Sacra Conversazione (1984), David Earle; Le Sacre du printemps (1993), Marie Chouinard; Sisyphus (1983), Karen Jamieson
Christopher House
an inquiring mind
By Kathleen SmithFriend and fan of the choreographer, writer and filmmaker Kathleen Smith talks with Christopher House about his latest work Timecode Break, among other things including the creative process, books, imagery and cupcakes.
Creating a New Work
From a longer essay by House entitled “An Approach to Choreography”
Jai Govinda
crossing boundaries
By Mary Theresa KellyHow did Jai Govinda, a white, French-Canadian ballet dancer come to be a master teacher and performer of bharatanatyam, one of many Indian classic dance forms?
Michael Slobodian
dance photographer
For photographer Michael Slobodian, the ideal dance image articulates the explosive quality of the motion and the physical intensity of the dancer. Here are five of his favourites.
Departments
Dance Data
How does dance measure up? (Relationship between dance and media)
Undercurrents
Michel Gamache, head of wardrobe for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
Short Waves
By Susan KendalEvelyn Hart performs for last time; Québec festival boasts record audiences [Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur; Anik Bissonnette]; Susan Bodie steps down from Ballet Jörgen Canada; Toronto festival tries on different name and focus [fFIDA; Toronto International Dance Festival; TIDF]; Two new Dora awards announced for dance; Dances for a small stage grows; David Earle wins Walter Carsen prize
Expert advice
On Agents in the Commercial Dance Sector
In The Wings
Tara Gaucher, School of Toronto Dance Theatre Professional Training Program
Green Room
Victoria BC’s Suddenly Dance Theatre (David Ferguson; Lori Hamar; Miles Lowry)
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Contemporaneity
Brandy Leary and Soraya Peerbaye launch a project looking to make understandings of contemporary dance performance more inclusive and diverse.
Interrarium: Creative Residency
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.
Possibilities of Dialogue
TOES for Dance
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April 5-7 avril 2019
8:00 | 20:00
Possibilities of Dialogue is an abstracted collaborative creative process, inspired by the parallels between making a dance and having a conversation.
