by Steve Sucato On an unseasonably warm afternoon last December at BalletMet’s studios in Columbus, Ohio, artistic director Edwaard Liang is teaching three male/female couples a pas de deux from his 2008 ballet Age of Innocence. Liang quickly demonstrates a series of steps, but when he sees the men having trouble with a particularly difficult
by Allan Ulrich In 1987, the third year of his tenure, San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson commissioned from the young William Forsythe a dance called New Sleep, which was like nothing ever seen previously on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House. This was movement theatre before there was a name for
by Tessa Perkins First Nations dance is more than a colourful spectacle of music and movement; it’s a reflection of the values and traditions of a people. Their dance practice is a ritual involving visual arts, song, intergenerational exchange, storytelling and movement, and the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival, held each March, offers the public