Diversity
Decolonizing Dance Stages
Presenters talk about breaking barriers By Rhodnie DésirThis year in Canada, the conversation about diversity, inclusion and representation has been omnipresent. I’m profoundly happy that more presenters, curators and jurors have brought these words into their vocabulary. But I question what they’re really referring to. Do we all really feel and understand the urgency? More precisely, when asking, “What does the word diversity really mean?” the answers from the dance milieu are often incomplete, reflecting a lack of comprehension of the issues at stake.
Posted January 18, 2018
Writers & Readers
Cultural Diversity or Orchestrated Insensitivity to the Other
By Zab MaboungouRead Canadian dance pioneer Zab Maboungou’s response to the current dialogue around pluralism in the arts.
Posted October 17, 2017
Contemporaneity
Coming together to decolonize dance space By Aparita BhandariBrandy Leary and Soraya Peerbaye launch a project looking to make understandings of contemporary dance performance more inclusive and diverse.
Posted January 26, 2017
