By Philip Szporer Chelsea McMullan, the Toronto-based filmmaker, knows how to grab an audience’s attention. McMullan’s documentary series, Swan Song, on CBC-TV and CBC-Gem from November 22, 2023, starts out as a warm but predictable ode to Karen Kain’s career as she prepares to retire from her position as the National Ballet of Canada’s artistic
By Kristen Lawson Dance Works: Stories of Creative Collaboration (Wesleyan University Press) demonstrates how we can create connection and community through making and sharing art. Author Allison Orr, founder and artistic director of Forklift Danceworks in Austin, Texas, details her career creating dances with working class people, whose jobs and activities are often overlooked and
By Kaija Pepper With a masterwork by William Forsythe to open with, and a rousing finale to Ravel’s suspenseful Boléro by an up-and-comer, Ballet BC’s season started on a high note. Opening night on November 2 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre gave us three works by three very different choreographers: William Forsythe’s Enemy in the