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 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
By Nadine Matthews At the height of the AIDS epidemic, two beloved members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company passed away from the deadly virus in the space of just two years. Arnie Zane, the dance company’s co-founder, died in 1988 and Demian Acquavella, a uniquely spirited dancer, in 1990. In early 1989, the