By Debra Spark “Hello, how are you doing, my beautiful peoples?” 36-year-old Armenian dancer Tsolak MKLE-Galstyan made a habit of saying in his delightfully imperfect English to his fellow artists in Paris. They were all new friends, an international group who had quickly bonded at L’AiR Arts, a January 2020 multicultural residency about the post-World
By Rebecca Karpus A young dancer prepares for class: tights on, bun made, shoes handy. After a brief warm-up of her own, she is ready to begin. She clicks “join meeting,” waits for her teacher and fellow students to appear on the screen, and places her hand on her kitchen counter “barre.” This is the
Part two in our occasional series looking more broadly at movement in life and art By Chris Randle Last March, I was in my first week of photographing and videotaping shows at the Vancouver International Dance Festival when the city went into COVID-19 lockdown mode. Suddenly, there was no dance, no work and no prospects