By Kaija Pepper The title of Jeanette Kotowich’s Kisiskâciwan comes from the Cree word for “swift-flowing river,” kisiskâciwanisîpiy, which became Saskatchewan — the prairie province where she grew up. In this choreographic memoir, Kotowich (now based in Vancouver) looks back to her childhood, evoking the gently rolling land’s geographical contours in a series of still
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
By Rebecca Karpus Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor — it may sound like Robin Hood, but it is also the story of Oleksa Dovbush. Born in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Dovbush was known in the 18th century as a protector of the poor. Today, his legacy reminds the Dovbush Dancers