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Edited by Selma Landen Odom and Mary Jane Warner Canadians want to hear stories about their country and the personalities who have forged a path to the present day. Now, thanks to Selma Landen Odom and Mary Jane Warner, two of Canada’s senior dance historians, there is finally an anthology that spans Canadian dance history…
By Carol Anderson As we crossed into the new millennium, Anderson looked intensely at Canada’s contemporary dance artists and the work they were creating … what they were thinking about … what they were doing … what movement vocabularies were being used. What was the state of the art? A week long visit to the…
By Carol Anderson Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance, Parts 1 and 2, provide a snapshot of Canadian theatrical dance at the dawn of the third millennium as seen by Carol Anderson during the 1998 and 2000 Canada Dance Festivals in Ottawa. As relevant as these public diaries are today, they will become even more significant with…
Edited by Jane Gabriels and Peter Dickinson What—and who—do we talk about when we talk about dance in so called British Columbia? How can writing and conversation amplify our knowledge of the diverse repertoire of movement practices on Indigenous lands in this province? How does dance, as a mode of embodied knowledge, provide different perspectives…
Editor: Iro Valaskakis Tembeck ESTIVALE 2000 was a three-day scholars’ gathering hosted by Université du Québec à Montréal’s dance department in May 2000. The conference focussed specifically on historical, critical and aesthetic research on dance conducted by and about Canadians. It was a first such venture in its choice to dwell solely on Canadian content…
By Allana Lindgren Françoise Sullivan’s desire to discover dance and life beyond the borders of her Montreal home shows that the longing for a “global acceptance of life and its riches” was an Automatist tenet by which she lived. As evidenced in her early choreography, and in her essay, “Dance and Hope”, in 1946 Sullivan…
Beginning in 1973 until 1989, Dance in / Danse au Canada magazine rolled off the presses four times a year. National in scope, this intelligently written and artfully designed publication reviewed professional performances, incited debates about cultural policy, and showed Canadians the beauty and achievements of their own dance artists. Dance Collection Danse Press/Presse has…
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…
By Amy Bowring Foreword by Des Walsh Author Amy Bowring’s literary portraits vividly illuminate the histories of dancers who participated in “Navigating Home: The Newfoundland and Labrador Dance Project”. This endeavour gathered Newfoundland dancers from home, with those who live away, to engage in movement explorations with celebrated choreographers Christopher House and Anne Troake. The…
By Amy Bowring Foreword by Des Walsh Author Amy Bowring’s literary portraits vividly illuminate the histories of dancers who participated in “Navigating Home: The Newfoundland and Labrador Dance Project”. This endeavour gathered Newfoundland dancers from home, with those who live away, to engage in movement explorations with celebrated choreographers Christopher House and Anne Troake. The…
Edited by Allana C. Lindgren and Kaija Pepper Comprising 15 essays by Canadian writers and scholars, Renegade Bodies is a book that embraces lively discussion about artistic and cultural shifts along with the social and political transformations of the 1970s. How were dance and its practitioners affected by the vigorous and varying beliefs, the principles…
Edited by Christopher House NEW RELEASE! Still With Us is a groundbreaking collection reflecting on the devastating impacts of HIV/AIDS on Canada’s dance world. Edited by longtime Artistic Director of Toronto Dance Theatre, Christopher House, it is at once an archive and a memorial, a celebration and a catalyst for contemplation. At the heart of…
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