Videos
Bachata in Canada
Toronto-based Latin dance couple, Kimberly Ramos and Geovanny Ricardo, have established themselves as a powerful force in the Canadian bachata dance community. Recognized for their smooth, yet strong, energy and presence, the couple has gained national and international success through numerous avenues including competing, performing and instructing at a professional level.
Posted June 26, 2018
Soleá
Learn more about the dancer who inspired The Dance Current’s May/June cover art.
Posted April 25, 2018
Formal Mediations
PROSE is a screendance collaboration loosely based on the romanticized story of Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr and plays with the idea of keeping a calm composure when faced with overwhelming pressure.
Posted February 26, 2018
Cutting Paper
Cutting Paper is a short video work inspired by the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Choreographed and performed by Jennifer Dallas, with videography by Melanie Gordon, the work is described by them as telling the story of “a woman’s quiet revolution as she slowly develops the courage to listen to her own voice in a world that mistakes her clarity and creativity for insanity.”
Posted February 23, 2018
Feedback and Paradox
Digital Folk is part video game, part costume party and incorporates live music and dance. As an installation presented by Plastic Orchid Factory as part of Dance in Vancouver and DIY@DIV it was presented as a looping performance that took place on November 23 through 24 at Left of Main in Vancouver.
Posted February 6, 2018
Flashback Friday
This video from the 2013 Polaris Music Prize features hoop dancer and pow wow fit instructor James Jones playing with a mix of b-boy and traditional movement.
Posted January 5, 2018
Bhairava
Bhairava is a fourteen minute, site-specific, dance-for-camera film by Mouvement Perpétuel, embodying the wandering yet fierce manifestation of Lord Shiva, the Lord of Dance.
Posted January 5, 2018
Calgary Catalysts
Video was and continues to be a stimulus for Krump artists across the globe and in Canada. In The Dance Current’s September/October 2017 issue, Lucy May explores the rise of the style in Canada.
Posted December 7, 2017
STEM From Dance
STEM From Dance is a non-profit organization that combines dance and STEM to empower young girls and encourage them to pursue this predominately male field. It gives young women in low-income communities the opportunity to learn coding and discover a unique form of creativity.
Posted October 14, 2017
Dancing to Learn
Dancing to Learn shows students at Perth Avenue Public School and dance educator Arwyn Carpenter in action – exploring, creating and moving together in the gymnasium. Peppered with comments from the students and Carpenter’s insightful articulation, the video demonstrates the benefits and transferrable skills facilitated through dance.
Posted September 21, 2017
Dancing Fingers
Check out Halifax-based dance artist Lydia Zimmer’s hand choreography.
Posted September 1, 2017
Jamie Robinson's Four Fallings
Read Jamie Robinson’s tips for making DIY screen dance. She’s the third featured video artist in this three-part series.
Posted August 29, 2017
Nita Bowerman's bodies in motion
Read Nita Bowerman’s tips for making DIY screen dance. She’s the second featured video artist in this three-part series.
Posted August 22, 2017
Francesca Chudnoff's ALGIA
Read Francesca Chudnoff’s tips for making DIY screen dance. She’s the first featured video artist in this three-part series.
Posted August 15, 2017
Dancing to the Same Beat
To celebrate its fortieth anniversary this year, Fédération Culturelle Canadienne-Française (FCCF) presented a video series, in collaboration with Unis TV, highlighting French Canadian arts and culture. In video featuring dance, three performing artists from differing generations and regions in Canada presented their own choreography to the same piece of music - Julie Duguay, Elise Page and Yvon “Crazy Smooth” Soglo.
Posted July 25, 2017
Unified Gestures
Toronto-based visual artist Katie Lyle and dancer-choreographer Shelby Wright made Movements for a Room in 2016, the video explores questions that arise during artistic collaboration.
Posted July 21, 2017
The Body in Nature
OutsideIn is a stereoscopic dance film created by Anne Troake, featuring Carol Prieur of Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Bill Coleman of Coleman, Lemieux & Compagnie. The film was selected to represent Newfoundland at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Posted July 10, 2017
No More Stolen Sisters
Canada’s unions honour missing and murdered Indigenous women through music and dance.
Posted June 29, 2017
Moments of Connection
Prolific filmmaker and dancer Olya Glotka has three films showing at this year’s Contact Dance International Film Festival in Toronto (CDIFF). 30 Days of Contact, a video by Glotka and Kim Simons, who also dance in the work, opens the festival this year.
Posted June 23, 2017
WAREHAUS Dance Collective’s Continuum
There are lots of upcoming screen dance festivals in Canada this Summer. Continuum, WAREHAUS Dance Collective’s recent collaboration with filmmaker David Phu, will premiere at the Festival of Recorded Movement (FORM) on June 17, at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver. The Dance Current has also included a survey list of new, ongoing and upcoming Canadian screen dance festivals and showings.
Posted June 16, 2017
