By Michael Crabb Danny Grossman, once hailed as among Canada’s boldest, most innovative, and prolific choreographers, died of heart failure in Toronto on July 29 at the age of 80. During his long career Grossman created a total of 67 dances, mostly for his own Danny Grossman Dance Company, founded in 1978, but also, whether
By Kathryn Boland Elizabeth Freeman will joke with her combat veteran clients that “nothing strikes fear in the heart of a warrior like the word ‘dance’.” Yet the work of New York’s Exit12 Dance Company — with which Freeman, a dance and movement therapist, serves as a clinical safeguarding lead — demonstrates just how transformative
By Kaija Pepper Dance criticism can be many things: a celebration, a documentation, an examination, an evaluation, boring, fun to read, biased, generous, too much like PR, with too much description, with too little description … the possibilities and pitfalls are endless. In Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity, recently published by the University