Toronto dance artist Danielle Baskerville speaks with contemporary dance artists in their mid-career and beyond about how they sustain themselves and how they move forward – physically, creatively, psychically, practically. In this conversation, she captures the life and experience of dance artists David Zambrano and Mat Voorter in their home in Anderlecht, Brussels, in Belgium.
Posted October 6, 2016North American Pole Dance Championship win for Québec dancer Jazzy Alix.
Posted September 30, 2016A call to compassion and call to action in artful dancefilm directed and danced by Jon Boogz with Lil Buck
Posted September 23, 201652 Portraits is a digital project featuring brief videos of dancers or performers accompanied with music and autobiographical lyrics.
Posted August 19, 2016Now, in its eighty-forth season, the ten-week festival is home to artists performing on the various stages, including an impressive outdoor venue named Inside/Out. The School at Jacob’s Pillow brings faculty and students from the ballet, contemporary and dance theatre streams of dance, and this year change was in the air.
Posted August 17, 201611 Million Reasons, a new photographic series by Sean Goldthorpe commissioned by People Dancing, puts the spotlight on inclusivity in dance with cinematic flare.
Posted August 16, 2016Six-year-old dance superstar Ayden Nguyen goes viral in a piece choreographed by Edmonton’s Alexander Chung.
Posted August 11, 2016Vancouver-based dancer Alisha Tallarico is making the plunge from her hometown to the L.A. dance scene. With a love for commercial dance, what better place is there to flock to?
Posted July 19, 2016The latest buzz from the Portuguese dance scene, the Online Dance Company Project brings dance out of the theatre and into the palm of your hand.
Posted July 15, 2016“It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer” according to Martha Graham. Although Martha never had computer technology as a pupil.
Posted June 28, 2016Three months ago I was hired as a production cast dancer for Royal Caribbean Productions aboard the Quantum of the Seas, the second largest ship in the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines fleet. It’s my dream job.
Posted June 9, 2016Cirque 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, 2016Chimera, an energetic, kaleidoscopic dancefilm written and directed by Paris-based filmmaker Steven Briand, is inspired by the chimera, a mythological hybrid of a lion, goat and snake.
Posted May 27, 2016In late April, I was an invited guest at the Northwest Network of Dance Festivals. The network brings together five major international dance festivals, located in three different states of the northwest region of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa and Baja California. Over a period of two weeks, I presented a talk on the development of Canadian video-dance entitled “Northern Exposures.”
Posted May 26, 2016The Harlem Globetrotters recently made their way through six Canadian provinces on an eighteen-city tour, and here they take to an outdoor basketball court in Greenwich Village to mix cool tricks with bouncing beats.
Posted May 13, 2016A flash mob organized by Regroupement québécois de la danse for International Dance Day 2015.
Posted April 26, 2016League of Exotique Dancers explores the golden era of burlesque through real stories of the women who made it glitter.
Posted April 22, 2016The Amsterdam-based Cinedans is where festival programmers and filmmakers, as well as commissioning editors and producers, from around the world converge. It’s a must-go-to international festival for dance, film and media.
Posted April 11, 2016Toronto-born artist Gioconda Barbuto has been admired unflaggingly for four decades. Lucy M. May’s profile, “The Body Magnetic,” meets the Canadian artist.
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