News
End of Season Awards
As the dance season wrapped, a range of artists were recognized for their work, performance and contribution to the community.
Posted August 12, 2016
Coast-to-Coast Construction in Dance
The recent and upcoming expansions in infrastructure across the country indicate that the country’s dance scene is healthy and growing and that several arts organizations are moving forward with long-awaited and much-anticipated projects.
Posted August 7, 2016
Ruth Priddle’s Legacy Beyond Dance at the University of Waterloo
Dr. Ruth Priddle, founder of the former dance program at the University of Waterloo, ON, died on June 8. Her academic work had an impact on motor learning research and influenced the way the people who worked with her regard dance, science and creativity, and how they can intersect.
Posted August 3, 2016
Remembering Jacque Foesier
After a lifelong commitment to the growth and well-being of dance in Canada, Toronto-based Jacque Foesier died on July 12 at the age of eighty-two.
Posted August 2, 2016
Toronto’s 2016 Dora Mavor Moore Awards
The thirty-seventh annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards took place on June 27 at Harbourfront Centre’s Concert Stage. The dance division saw a total of seven categories and thirty-five nominees.
Posted July 4, 2016
Survey Researches the Social Impact of Dance in Canada
Canada Council for the Arts survey investigates how dance affects society in Canada, the last phase of research in the Dance Across Canada project.
Posted June 22, 2016
Lindsay Zier-Vogel Appointed Director of the Canadian Society for Dance Studies
The Canadian Society for Dance Studies announced on June 3 in an email to its members that Lindsay Zier-Vogel will replace Samantha Mehra Donaldson as director.
Posted June 20, 2016
Remembering Geneviève Salbaing
Geneviève Salbaing was a champion of classical and jazz dance in Canada as co-founder of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. She passed away on May 8 at the age of ninety-four.
Posted June 14, 2016
Canada’s National Ballet School Honours Alumni in an Inaugural Symposium
The Global Alumni Symposium for Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS) took place in Toronto for the first time May 20 through 22. The event brought NBS alumni together to participate in a host of activities and to hear their feedback on how the school can best prepare its students for their careers.
Posted June 7, 2016
Cirque du Soleil Steps onto Broadway
Cirque du Soleil’s new Broadway production Paramour opened May 25 in New York. The show is a fusion of acrobatics, dance and song tied together with a Broadway narrative, a love triangle set in the golden age of Hollywood.
Posted June 6, 2016
Know Your Worth
On Saturday, May 28, around 100 commercial and urban dancers flocked to The Underground Dance Centre in Toronto for Interpose: A Dancer’s Rights Seminar. In the field of commercial dance, art has a boss. In fact, the chain of command stems from the client, down through the production company, to the choreographer and then to the dancer, the bottom of a chain fuelled by commerce above all else.
Posted June 2, 2016
New Space Opens Up Creative Possibilities for Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
The Calgary-based contemporary jazz company inaugurates new space with a new full-length production by Artistic Director Kimberley Cooper.
Posted May 26, 2016
The School of Alberta Ballet Outgrows Edmonton Location
The School of Alberta Ballet’s Edmonton Studios hosted an open house on May 15 to celebrate their September move to a larger facility.
Posted May 23, 2016
Dance in the Federal Budget
After the 2016 federal budget was announced March 22, headlines across major arts organizations glowed with an absolute rarity. What will the long-term effects look like?
Posted May 1, 2016
2016 Dance Day Message
Since 2005, the Canadian Dance Assembly has issued a message on behalf of the dance community in Canada as part of International Dance Day on April 29. This year’s IDD Ambassador is Halifax-based dance artist and Mocean Dance Co-Artistic Director Susanne Chui.
Posted April 18, 2016
Canadian Dance Decorated
Artistic Director Louis Robitaille of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Canadian Dance Assembly Executive Director Kate Cornell, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ Founder in Residence Vicki Adams Willis and more are celebrated for their contribution to Canadian dance.
Posted April 12, 2016
Remembering Calgary’s Shirley C. Murray
Murray devoted her life to teaching and sharing a love of dance and was one of the founders of the Dance Education program at the University of Calgary.
Posted March 30, 2016
Locating 'D'ance in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies in Canada
Discussions were international in scope and explored historical and contemporary sites of research.
Posted March 16, 2016
Breaking Ground in Integrated Dance Teacher Training
Dancers and instructors from across Canada came together to host the first Canadian-led integrated dance teacher training workshop in Calgary.
Posted March 15, 2016
