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By Michael Crabb Arnold Spohr is outspoken, ambitious, demanding, uncompromising and even combative when it comes to dealing with those whose dedication to the arts falls short of his own. He’s also one of the most honoured, respected and loved figures in the history of Canadian dance. Artistic Director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for…
Editor: Aline Gélinas Translator: Lynne Carson Jean-Pierre Perreault was one of the most creative forces in Canadian dance. More than a choreographer, Perreault brought to his work a vibrant interest in art, architecture and music. His 1983 ensemble work, JOE, has deservedly become a Canadian classic and his exploration of space and the dancer-audience relationship made…
By Leland Windreich TIMING IS EVERYTHING! Whatever timing is – coincidence, fate, chance, destiny, divine will or just plain chaos at work – in 1934 all its components came into play on the Vancouver dance scene. Two adept women, Vivian Ramsey and Yvonne Firkins, were planning a theatre arts school … June Roper arrived in…
By Felix Cherniavsky What THEY said about Maud Allan: … “a musician”… “a dancer”… “an Isadora rip-off”… “a harlot”… “a lesbian”… “a femme fatale”… “a fake”. She was all these and much more. To know Maud Allan is to understand the frenetic energy and anxiety of the fin de siècle – the burning desire for freedom…
By Max Wyman Max Wyman’s not a bad guy, he’s just a critic. Dance is central to his life. He eats, sleeps, talks, thinks, dreams and writes about dance. He makes it his business to see all the dance he can. As Wyman himself declares, “no other art form speaks so directly about the ephemerality…
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie Reconstructing Fifteen Heterosexual Duets by James Kudelka Photography gallery: Michael Slobodian In celebration of a great Canadian dance work, this book offers a feature essay by artistic director Laurence Lemieux, along with intriguing thoughts and observations by some of the dancers who participated in the reconstruction of James Kudelka’s master work….
By Rhonda Ryman Ryman’s Dictionary is a guide to the complex language of Classical Ballet compiled by one of the world’s leading experts on the language of dance. Rhonda Ryman has spent more than 30 years exploring the complexity and evolution of Classical Ballet terminology, aided by her expertise in kinesiology, Laban and Benesh notation…
By Kaija Pepper Vancouver’s Kay Armstrong was applauded for her Flamenco style dances. She was a former member of the corps de ballet at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. She had appeared in the Broadway musical Show Boat. Yet, as dance writer Kaija Pepper astutely notes in her examination of Armstrong’s career,…
By Kaija Pepper Vancouver-based Peter Bingham has been a driving force in Canada’s contact improvisation scene for 30 years. Influenced by his early training with dancer/choreographer Linda Rubin, he later studied with American proponents of contact, Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith. In 1977, he co-founded Fulcrum with Andrew Harwood and Helen Clarke and the…
By Kaija Pepper It was the same in every new town … the saloons came first then the general store then a church next there was a bank and then a theatre Vigour, variety and imagination have consistently characterized dance in Vancouver. In the earliest days of the city, dance was a small part of…
OUT OF PRINT Compiled and Edited by Carol Anderson This remarkable collection of original essays captures the indefinable, the instance of inspiration, the fleeting image, the passionate moment that is the essence of dance. This Passion is the work of 18 authors, all of them dance professionals, as they reflect in very personal ways on…
By Mary Jane Warner In May, 1822, a newspaper advertisement in the Town of York, Upper Canada, later to become Toronto, informed readers that Mrs. Cockburn, would be including dance in her school’s curriculum. Over the next 100 years, dance would evolve through a fascinating array of styles and techniques ranging from fancy dress balls,…
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