Videos
The Sleeping Beauty on Ice
The world’s leading performers of theatrical ice dance present a fantastical take on a classical ballet, and the results are anything but frigid.
Posted November 13, 2015Kilter by Davidson Jaconello
Davidson Jaconello has recently moved from dancing to creating music for dance. This piece, Kilter, was the inspiration for a recent choreographic creation by his friend and collaborator Yukichi Hattori of Alberta Ballet.
Posted November 12, 2015
Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival
This year’s twenty-eighth annual event includes a range of artists from across Canada and the United States to develop and showcase contemporary indigenous theatre, dance and interdisciplinary creations for stage.
Posted November 11, 2015
2015 Creative Challenge Museum Suite
For the 2015 Creative Challenge Museum Suite, students from Canada’s National Ballet School and Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School presented their own choreographies at Toronto museums.
Posted November 10, 2015
Relais Papillon by Caroline St-Laurent
As part of Tangente’s Artist Caroline St-Laurent presents bodies swimming through the air.
Posted November 9, 2015
Echo
Toronto choreographer Christopher House draws inspiration from looking back as well as from looking forward.
Posted November 4, 2015
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Canadian dancers Luc Bouchard-Boissonneault and Melina Stinson add their movement expertise to Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, a multidisciplinary work directed by Mark Lawes.
Posted November 3, 2015The Collective
Vancouver’s 605 Collective was commissioned by CBC to create this short video, giving viewers a look inside their highly collaborative creative process.
Posted October 30, 2015
Stromae - Quand c'est?
This music video by Belgian artist Stromae has a Tim Burton spookiness about it.
Posted October 30, 2015
Getting Severe
A combination of modelling, theatre and dance established in the Harlem ballroom scene, vogue could not be further from its roots in China, but these dancers make it look right at home.
Posted October 29, 2015
La Otra Orilla Unplugged
Set to live flamenco music, two female dancers present movement that is a hybrid between flamenco and tap, creating a unique and stunning cabaret.
Posted October 28, 2015
All Bodies Dance Project
This documentary follows the All Bodies Dance Project during its inaugural year in Vancouver.
Posted October 26, 2015
DM Nation
Québec’s all-female hip hop dance crew DM Nation graces Canada’s Gemini Awards Gala.
Posted October 16, 2015
Florilège
Margie Gillis celebrates her fortieth anniversary as a choreographer and dancer with Florilège – 40 Years of Choreographic Poems.
Posted October 14, 2015
Stripped-down Circus
Multi-award-winning Australian acrobatics ensemble Gravity & Other Myths perform their latest work, A Simple Space, at The Cultch in Vancouver.
Posted October 13, 2015
Off the Wall 2015
Frog in Hand, a multidisciplinary performance company based in Mississauga, Ontario, presents a review of their Off the Wall 2015 event.
Posted October 9, 2015
PPS Danse at Twenty-Five
As Montréal’s PPS Danse prepares to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary, this milestone, according to Artistic Director Pierre-Paul Savoie, “is first and foremost about looking back at all that has been done to illuminate the road we want to follow moving forward.”
Posted October 8, 2015
Jamais Seule
The twenty-fifth annual Festival of New Dance runs until October 10 in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. Jamais Seule is the inspired work by quadriplegic dancer France Geoffroy.
Posted October 6, 2015
Alterity Problem's Doing My Rounds, Checking Some Rounds
The September/October 2015 print article “Performing and Forming: Choreocinema in the media art of Emily Pelstring” discusses the technology and methods Pelstring used to create Doing My Rounds, Checking Some Rounds. The footage she created was edited together as a music video for Alterity Problem’s (Alex Moskos and Joel Taylor) composition of the same name.
Posted October 2, 2015
Atlantic Flamenco Festival 2015
A glimpse into how a Canadian artist is making the Spanish art form her own.
Posted September 30, 2015
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