By Tessa Perkins Deneault Splitting his time between the worlds of ballet and traditional Indigenous dance, Cameron Fraser-Monroe is a busy choreographer and dancer. While it can be difficult to balance working in more than one dance style, Fraser-Monroe plans to continue pursuing his parallel creative outlets. “Contemporary dance feeds my physicality — my desire
By Jeannette Andersen Hélène Blackburn’s Coppélia X Machina is the latest of numerous ballet interpretations of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story The Sandman from 1816. Hoffmann wrote a sinister tale about a young man, Nathaniel, who falls in love with a doll and commits suicide upon realizing she is not human. The story first entered the
By Rachel Silver Maddock In Paul Taylor: Creative Domain, director Kate Geis and her team remarkably capture the creative process of late American modern dance master Paul Taylor. The 82-minute documentary (released in 2015 and recently re-released on streaming platforms and DVD) records the process of Taylor choreographing a single dance, Three Dubious Memories (2011),