In honour of International Dance Day, Québec Danse invited audiences and artists to celebrate the incredible variety of dance forms and practices across the province in a wide array of classes, shows, rehearsals and exhibitions.
Posted April 30, 2014Paper Things, the Toronto gift and stationery store that has supported the National Ballet of Canada for more than fifty years will close its doors on June 30.
Posted April 29, 2014This spring, past So You Think You Can Dance Canada winners Nicolas (Nico) Archambault and Jordan Clark return to television.
Posted April 26, 2014The Show Choir Canada championships featured nearly thirty glee club teams from schools across North America over the April 12 - 13 weekend.
Posted April 21, 2014The Regroupement québecois de la danse has become a partner of La Fabrique culturelle, a new arts media platform that collects and features videos and photographs representing all the arts.
Posted April 16, 2014On April 1, programming for the arts and culture events surrounding the 2015 PanAm/ Parapan American Games in Toronto were announced at the El Catrin restaurant in the Distillery District.
Posted April 11, 2014The School of Alberta Ballet announce a boys’ scholarship program, Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage Music Theatre Conservatory announce free jazz classes for aspirants and professionals and others in the country making training available for emerging dance artists.
Posted April 11, 2014Since its launch in 2010, Motion Bank has been capturing choreographic movements and transforming them into computer data made available online.
Posted April 8, 2014Vancouver’s The Dance Centre has announced the recipients of two awards acknowledging British Columbia choreographers.
Posted April 2, 2014In January, The National Ballet of Canada (NBoC) welcomed new Executive Director Barry Hughson.
Posted March 13, 2014The hugely successfully Montréal parent and child dance program MamaDances is finally coming to Toronto.
Posted February 27, 2014On February 8 in The Hague, the Dutch dance collective iLL Skill Squad received the very first André Gingras Award, named after the late Canadian choreographer.
Posted February 25, 2014Festival TransAmériques Artistic Director Marie-Hélène Falcon reveals details of the upcoming eighth edition taking place May 22 – June 7 in Montréal. Martin Faucher was recently named as her successor.
Posted February 11, 2014Filmmaker Marie Brodeur and her company, La Compagnie de la Marie, recently visited DanzLenz in India to present a retrospective of her work and an excerpt of her upcoming documentary about dancer and historian Vincent Warren.
Posted February 6, 2014One of the National Ballet of Canada’s most admired performers – principal dancer Aleksandar Antonijevic – has announced his retirement from the stage.
Posted January 25, 2014On January 7, 2014 the dance community lost revered dance artist, choreographer and educator Lawrence Gradus.
Posted January 22, 2014Florence Munger-Fourcaudot, founder of the École de Danse Florence Fourcaudot dance school in Saguenay, Québec has died.
Posted January 21, 2014A change in direction for the Trey McIntyre Project highlights the potential of a new model for dance companies in Canada and the US.
Posted January 21, 2014A petition to allow bboys and girls to continue practising their urban hip hop vibes at Montréal’s Cineplex Odeon Forum Cinemas is now in the works.
Posted December 17, 2013A long-standing relationship between dance and physical education at the University of Calgary is evolving: the school is launching a new degree that combines a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Kinesiology.
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