Reviews
Belinda McGuire’s ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Dancefilm Invigorates A Challenged Art Form
Order in the Eye of the Beholder is available until April 30 By Deirdre KellyUser control is a constitutive feature of electronic gaming but foreign to contemporary dance, making this project by the Canadian-born, New York-based indie dance artist Belinda McGuire genuinely innovative.
Posted April 13, 2021
Orange Is a Mesmerizing Duet on Human Connection
Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject and Less San Miguel/LessIZM’s experimental creation melds two bodies into one By Joshua ChongJoshua Chong reviews Plastic Orchid Factory’s production of Orange, an aching but welcome antidote in this era of physical distancing.
Posted April 12, 2021
KNOW the RULES, WIN the GAME Is A Clever Look at the Artist in Politics
Kunji Ikeda uses history and humour to ask what would happen if artists today were trusted advisors to government By Rachel Silver MaddockKunji Ikeda presents “the artist” as vulnerable though essential to the state in his work, KNOW the RULES, WIN the GAME.
Posted April 8, 2021
Aching Distances
Ali Robson’s performance response to Dancing with Tantalus in review By Jillian GroeningAli Robson’s performance response to the visual art exhibition Dancing with Tantalus considers what is cultivated through the dynamic proximities of bodies, surfaces and art objects in virtual space.
Posted March 24, 2021
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ drive-in show is an innovative pandemic performance
There is something in the details closes tonight By Jenna ShummoogumDecidedly Jazz Danceworks’ There is something in the details takes place through the windows of the company’s building. Music and voice-overs stream through a radio frequency that you can access in your car. Every vehicle is parked on an angle so that each cohort can have the best sightlines, and instead of applause, people honk their horns in appreciation. This is pandemic performance.
Posted March 20, 2021
‘Historians’ Is an Ode to Black Lives and Blackness Dedicated to the Spirits and Soul of Us Black Folx
Kevin Ormsby reviews the short film that won Best Social Justice Film at the Vancouver Independent Film Festival By Kevin A. Ormsby Posted February 26, 2021
Sweet As Sugarplum
A review of Goh Ballet’s film, The Nutcracker, Beyond the Stage: Fallen Prince By Brannavy JeyasundaramBrannavy Jeyasundaram reviews Goh Ballet’s film version of a holiday classic
Posted January 11, 2021
Embodied Geographies
Review of Joshua Whitehead’s Making Love With the Land By Jillian GroeningMaking Love With the Land is a welcome moment of grounding within the dizzying cacophony of virtual performance events. While digital spaces course with emergent methods through which to experience temporal arts practices, the conversational sequencing of Making Love With the Land evokes a rhythmic embrace that is further supported by the warm timbre of Joshua Whitehead’s voice.
Posted December 22, 2020
When Dancing Is a Total Nightmare
Fear of Dancing follows filmmaker Michael Allcock, whose fear of dancing keeps him on the sidelines By Philip SzporerThe Toronto-based filmmaker Michael Allcock is terrified of dancing. In his feature documentary Fear of Dancing, Allcock is front and centre, detailing his views on dancing, which he sees as an affliction.
Posted December 8, 2020
My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community by Peter Dickinson
The book delves into a decade of contemporary dance in Vancouver but also highlights a barrier between two segments of the city’s dance community By Tessa Perkins DeneaultDickinson’s new book delves into a decade of contemporary dance in Vancouver but also highlights a barrier between two segments of the city’s dance community
Posted November 2, 2020
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
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