By Victor Swoboda Six years ago, Canadians Alexander Richardson and Erin Scott-Kafadar launched PointeTango, a Montreal-based company that puts a unique twist to Argentine tango — Scott-Kafadar dances on pointe. Ballet-trained, the two met a few years earlier in a small local dance production of Cinderella. Richardson had first taken up tango with another dancer,
By Guillermo Perez The questions Victoria Marks asks of dance can draw us into her work as forcefully as the firmest declarations. What stories should set a work in motion? Who gets to bask in the glow of the spotlight? How can the moving image of people with varied physical abilities create interest, wonder, alliance?
By Jeannette Andersen Munich’s Bayerisches Staatsballett recently offered a rare glimpse into some of the more practical details around putting a ballet on stage in a big opera house. Instead of their annual joint press conference with the opera at the theatre itself, they hosted a visit at the set building workshops located half-an-hour’s drive