Videos
Gioconda Barbuto in Car-Men by Jiří Kylián
Toronto-born artist Gioconda Barbuto has been admired unflaggingly for four decades. Lucy M. May’s profile, “The Body Magnetic,” meets the Canadian artist.
Posted March 23, 2016
Words in Motion
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver presents Words in Motion: three works that each pair a choreographer with a writer.
Posted March 18, 2016
Hana Awase Sansa
Komachi Montréal is a Japanese folk dance troupe specializing in traditional folk music.
Posted March 17, 2016
De Danaan Irish Dancers
Check out the De Danaan Irish Dancers at the CelticFest Vancouver.
Posted March 17, 2016
Ballet Victoria's Romeo and Juliet
Ballet Victoria presents the world premiere of Artistic Director Paul Destrooper’s new choreography of Romeo and Juliet.
Posted March 7, 2016
A Case Of You
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Sony Centre in Toronto.
Posted March 3, 2016
Foutrement
Infidelity, love, seduction, temptation and the the weight of love’s disillusionment – all themes in Montréal choreographer Virginie Brunelle’s Foutrement, on this week at the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
Posted March 2, 2016
Sporting Life
Julia Sasso remounts her 1996 work examining society’s love of violence.
Posted February 29, 2016
Dance Video Collection Project
Dance teacher turned filmmaker features youth in hip hop concept films.
Posted February 26, 2016
The NDN Way
The NDN Way integrates elements of Cree philosophy into a collage of abstract imagery and movement.
Posted February 19, 2016
The Mystery of Mr. Leftovers
Peever discusses her connection to choreographer Moore, the creative process and character work in this dynamic solo.
Posted February 15, 2016
Badke
Badke is a distortion of dabke, the Palestinian folk dance. It brings together a group of Palestinian dancers who have taken daily risks in the pursuit of their craft.
Posted February 12, 2016
CPA [Consistent Partial Attention]
CPA presents digital dances for the camera that are expressions of the contemporary self and that are used in the construction and representation of the self in the digital community.
Posted February 10, 2016
Dance with Them
Dance with Them directed by Béatriz Mediavilla is one of five Canadian dance documentaries and films featured at this year’s Dance on Camera Festival in New York City.
Posted February 5, 2016
Brand New Day
Jade’s Hip Hop Academy Performance Company take the 1978 film The Wiz starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson as inspiration for their own hip hop musical theatre twist.
Posted February 4, 2016
Voyage baroque en Perse
Montréal’s Baroque and Renaissance dance company, Danse Cadence.
Posted February 2, 2016
PAINTED and Brief Candle
PAINTED is the first in what will be a trilogy of dancefilms about “our tug-of-war with wilderness,” according to Montréal writer and film director Duncan McDowall.
Posted January 29, 2016
Exister encore
This solo premiering in Montréal questions the external stimuli that invade our everyday life and which weigh down our existence, distancing us from individuality.
Posted January 27, 2016
Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation
Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation, choreographed by Mark Godden with original music composed by Christos Hatzis, was inspired by a story by Joseph Boyden about a young aboriginal woman, her multiple identities in the modern world and the trauma caused by violence against indigenous people
Posted January 26, 2016
