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Video of Tene Ward of The National Ballet of Canada trying on pointe shoes that match her skin tone goes viral
“There’s certain traditions like pink shoes that just don’t work for the twenty-first century anymore, given the fact that the people that are included in the ballet world now aren’t just white,” Ward said.
Posted October 5, 2020
Fall For Dance North Offers a Netflix-Style Festival
Like many other events, the sixth edition of the dance festival Fall For Dance North (FFDN) began online on Tuesday. But this festival is hosted on a new, Netflix-style website that features an array of performances, interviews and workshops.
Posted October 2, 2020
York University Students Write Open Letter to Dance Department About Issues of Social Justice, Equity and Inclusion
On August 26, students from the dance department at York University posted an open letter to the department, urging it to move past shallow actions and re-evaluate the curriculum considering how white supremacy and colonialism are deeply embedded in pedagogy.
Posted September 1, 2020
ScotDance Canada raises $50,000 for Food Banks Canada and Kids Help Phone Canada
Exceeding its own expectations, ScotDance Canada raised $50,000 in one week to donate to Food Banks Canada and Kids Help Phone Canada.
Posted August 24, 2020
Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur to Produce Ten Dancefilms Over Two Weeks
Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur (FASS)’s online project will run July 5 through September 6, highlighting the work of Quebec-based artists.
Posted July 3, 2020
Canada’s Drag Race Premieres During an Important Time
Tonight, the inaugural season of Canada’s Drag Race premieres during an important time in history: Just after Pride month, during a global pandemic and amid calls for justice and more representation of marginalized voices from the Black Lives Matter movement.
Posted July 2, 2020
Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners Announced
Like so many other events, the forty-first annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards found themselves right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted June 29, 2020
The National Ballet of Canada Met With Dancer Nicholas Rose After He Called Out the Company on Instagram
In the wake of protests over police brutality and systemic racism, Rose told the company to “do better.”
Posted June 6, 2020
Canadian Dance Teams Compete in World of Dance
The teams, consisting of teenagers, are from Vancouver and Edmonton and will be competing for $1 million.
Posted May 26, 2020
Adaptive Dance Teacher Adapts to a Virtual Classroom
Hilary Walsh takes her classroom online, teaching adaptive dance within COVID-19 physical distancing restrictions.
Posted May 7, 2020
Online Dance Classes Accessible During COVID-19 Isolation
A roundup of online dance classes to keep you moving at home.
Posted April 6, 2020
National Arts Centre and Facebook Canada to Provide $100,000 to Support Online Performances
Funding for online performances between now and March 31
Posted March 19, 2020
Reimagining The Possibilities
Andrew Tay named artistic director of Toronto Dance Theatre
Posted March 9, 2020
Shape-Shifting
Jean Grand-Maître announces he will be stepping down from his role as artistic director of Alberta Ballet in 2022. The role will be taken over by Christopher Anderson.
Posted March 3, 2020
Performing in Protest
Dance artists perform in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs
Posted February 18, 2020
Santee Smith Wins Inaugural Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize
Smith wins one of the five $25,000 prizes
Posted December 17, 2019
Fifty Years of Swan Lake
Karen Kain to retire as artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada
Posted November 14, 2019
Time to Exhale
After twenty-four years, Greta Hodgkinson will be retiring from her role as a principal dancer with The National Ballet of Canada.
Posted October 30, 2019
CADA/West Pilots a Childcare Costs Initiative
The Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists/West Chapter (CADA/West) has announced a new Childcare Subsidy Pilot Program to help dancers offset childcare costs.
Posted April 24, 2019
A Welcome Resistance
For the first time in the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s eighty-five-year history, Indigenous Arts will be programmed continuously throughout the calendar year.
Posted February 27, 2019
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