By Gerard Davis Charlotte Edmonds was the first participant in the inaugural Emerging Choreographer Programme at London’s Royal Ballet in 2016 and has since created works for Studio Wayne McGregor, Yorke Dance Project and many others. Elizabeth Arifien has a background in musical theatre, choreography and, more recently, filmmaking. Both women are highly accomplished, extremely
By Sheenagh Pietrobruno When COVID-19 darkened and emptied the four performance spaces at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, the executive producer of NAC Dance, Cathy Levy, swiftly engaged with the Centre’s lively digital stage. Levy invited dance artists across Canada to apply to present their shows through #CanadaPerforms on Facebook Live, a relief effort launched by
By Rachel Silver Maddock Two years ago, seven Vancouver dance artists from very different aesthetic backgrounds came together to thrash out and define the meaning of contemporary and traditional in terms of their dance practice. Colleen Lanki of TomoeArts, who works in the Japanese form of nihon buyoh; Margaret Grenier of Dancers of Damelahamid, who