By Tessa Perkins Deneault Splitting his time between the worlds of ballet and traditional Indigenous dance, Cameron Fraser-Monroe is a busy choreographer and dancer. While it can be difficult to balance working in more than one dance style, Fraser-Monroe plans to continue pursuing his parallel creative outlets. “Contemporary dance feeds my physicality — my desire
By Jenn Edwards Two pillars of Vancouver’s Indigenous dance community, Margaret Grenier and Starr Muranko, are Ballet BC’s 2022-2023 artists in residence. Working in tandem, they are meeting with company dancers once a month to explore intersections between contemporary ballet and the Indigenous forms they practice as artistic directors of Dancers of Damelahamid and Raven
By Kaija Pepper When Margaret Hart married Gitxsan Chief Kenneth Harris in 1953, she was groomed by her mother-in-law in the duties and functions that were now her responsibility. Important among them was to carry forward the traditional songs and dances of her husband’s lineage as a chief of the Gitxsan people — the People