Reviews
Upon Four Pillars
Olivia C. Davies brings ceremony home in Wishing Well at Dancing on the Edge By Tessa Perkins DeneaultDancing on the Edge’s Wishing Well grows from its foundation in teachings and tradition.
Posted August 12, 2020
A Global Garden
Mile Zero Dance presents a worldwide performance with Garden Party By Olivia C. DaviesOlivia C. Davies reviews Mile Zero Dance’s Garden Party, a global online event demonstrating dance’s adaptability even within a pandemic.
Posted August 11, 2020
Theatre Reimagined
Ismailova Theatre of Dance embraces the digital in Seeking Everyday Magicians By Rachel Silver Maddock Seeking Everyday MagiciansToronto-based dance-theatre company finds creative ways to connect with a virtual audience.
Posted July 30, 2020
The Privilege of the Pastoral
Grove raises crucial questions during a period of global outcry By Erin BaldwinJulia Alpin and Terrill Maguire’s pastoral meditation livestream, Grove, raises questions about accessibility and inequity.
Posted June 30, 2020
Extricating Liveness During COVID-19
Thea Patterson’s Silvering in Confinement By Philip SzporerPhilip Szporer reviews Thea Patterson’s digital performance, Silvering in Confinement, confronting disconnection in our virtually connected, COVID-19 world.
Posted June 9, 2020
A Glitch in Paradise
Zata Omm’s Eden Planted By Dylan SchoenmakersDylan Schoenmakers explores dance viewed virtually in his review of Zata Omm’s Eden Planted, now available in video form online.
Posted April 22, 2020
On Collapsing Pain Into Prayer
Sampradaya Dance Creations’ MANDALA By Brannavy JeyasundaramSampradaya Dance Creations marked its thirtieth anniversary with MANDALA, a vivid and graceful celebration of impermanence and the artistic process.
Posted February 13, 2020
The Courage to Be Kind
One Kind Favor by George Stamos By Helen Simard One Kind Favor Posted February 13, 2020
The Inner Lives of Clowns
Kemi Projects explores performance and desire in new work Known By Erin BaldwinJennifer Dallas explores the tension between performativity and desire in Known, a new work by Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects presented at Artscape Youngplace in Toronto.
Posted February 5, 2020
When Bygones Won’t Let Go
The newest work from Out Innerspace Dance Theatre By Kate MorrisTo “let bygones be bygones” means to let go of negative elements of the past and get on with things. Out Innerspace’s Bygones invites us to consider how negative experiences persist in the present and the ways we might cling to them, even at our own expense.
Posted January 9, 2020
Dystopian Impressions
Marie Béland’s Beside By Philip SzporerFragmentation immediately pervades Marie Béland’s imaginative Beside, a collaboration of maribé - sors de ce corps and Montréal Danse.
Posted January 7, 2020
Expanding Their Reach
All Bodies Dance Project investigates sightless dance By Rachel Silver MaddockHow do we experience dance through our non-visual senses? This is one of the questions asked by All Bodies Dance Project in their new work Translations.
Posted January 2, 2020
On the Steps of the Escalators
An after-hours performance with jes sachse By Tak PhamUnder the roof of the library, sachse’s questions were nuanced by this highly regulated architectural space: equipped with sound mufflers, fluorescent lights and surveillance points, libraries are typically built to deter disturbance and promote solitary contemplation.
Posted December 31, 2019
Devious Spine Chills
Hélène Blackburn and Lucie Bazzo’s Suites Ténébreuses / The Monsters By Xdzunúm Danae Trejo-BolesThere was a soft calmness to the dark theatre space of Agora de la danse as a mixed audience entered to see Cas Public’s Suites Ténébreuses / The Monsters, co-created by choreographer Hélène Blackburn and lighting designer Lucie Bazzo.
Posted December 9, 2019
