By Victor Swoboda A few months after his 70th birthday in February 2020, Daniel Soulières stepped down from Danse-Cité, the Montreal contemporary-dance production house that he founded in 1982. Some 400 people sent congratulatory messages reflecting admiration for Soulières as a driving force in staging contemporary dance, as a dancer and as a teacher. Undoubtedly
By Robert Greskovic Part three in our series featuring the personal photo card collection of our New York correspondent After the October Revolution of 1917, the imperial ballet world’s schools and theatres were renamed by the new Bolshevik government as state theatres and state academies. Once ballet troupes began to come out of Soviet Russia
By Tessa Perkins Deneault Ralph Escamillan’s gateway to dance was a breaking class at Harbour Dance Centre in Vancouver. He was 14, and during his first class they had a cypher, when everyone forms a circle and takes turns performing freestyle in the centre. “There was such a rush of excitement and fear, and that