By Carolina Bergonzoni In 2017, I arrived at the Vancouver International Airport after a visit to my family in Italy. It was the first time I had travelled out of Canada since becoming a permanent resident, and a Canadian Customs officer greeted me with a warm, “Welcome home!” I remember my confusion: I had just
By Sima Chowdhury The broad ethnic composition of Lai Lai Ballroom Dance studio in southern California inspired Laura Nix to spend six years making her Oscar-nominated short film Walk, Run, Cha Cha. Elena Krifuks from Belarus and her husband, Maksym Kapitanchuk from Ukraine, teach Latin dancing there to mostly middle-aged Asian students. Two of their
By Jenn Edwards In big cities, if you’re a dancer and dance instructor, you’re a dime a dozen. When my partner, Philip McDermott, and I arrived in Labrador City last year, with contracts to teach the entire schedule at the only studio in the small mining town, people we’d never met stopped us on the