The teams, consisting of teenagers, are from Vancouver and Edmonton and will be competing for $1 million.
Posted May 26, 2020Hilary Walsh takes her classroom online, teaching adaptive dance within COVID-19 physical distancing restrictions.
Posted May 7, 2020A roundup of online dance classes to keep you moving at home.
Posted April 6, 2020Funding for online performances between now and March 31
Posted March 19, 2020Andrew Tay named artistic director of Toronto Dance Theatre
Posted March 9, 2020Jean 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, 2020Dance artists perform in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs
Posted February 18, 2020Smith wins one of the five $25,000 prizes
Posted December 17, 2019Karen Kain to retire as artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada
Posted November 14, 2019After twenty-four years, Greta Hodgkinson will be retiring from her role as a principal dancer with The National Ballet of Canada.
Posted October 30, 2019The 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, 2019For 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, 2019After fifteen years, Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement has been priced out of its home on 6 Noble St, in Toronto’s west end.
Posted November 5, 2018The National Ballet of Canada is touring to Russia for the first time in the company’s sixty-seven year history.
Posted October 17, 2018Ola Skanks, a pioneering figure in Canada’s early modern dance scene as well as in the development of African diasporic dances, passed away August 18, 2018.
Posted October 16, 2018What has happened since the Dora Mavor Moore Awards un-gendered their awards categories?
Posted September 28, 2018On Sunday, March 25, the Encore! Dance Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held at The Globe and Mail Centre, hosted by CBC journalist Laurie Brown.
Posted April 16, 2018Famed Soviet-American dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov will make a rare return to Toronto to perform in the Canadian premiere of BRODSKY / BARYSHNIKOV. The Dance Current asked Baryshnikov about his time in Canada and he responded by highlighting his relationships within the ballet community.
Posted January 23, 2018A round up of the 2017 summer and fall awards, honours and news
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