Beauty unfolded in a series of enveloping embraces between dancers Jonathan Jordan and Francesca Dugarte in Diane Coburn Bruning’s Journey (2003). The duet opened Chamber Dance Project’s New Works + program in June. A summer-only project-based company founded by Coburn Bruning in New York in 2000 and relocated to Washington, D.C., in 2014, CDP’s modus
By Kaija Pepper On the February morning of Revisor’s avant-premiere — set for that evening at Banff Centre’s Eric Harvie Theatre high within Alberta’s Rocky Mountains — it’s minus 26 degrees centigrade when I leave my hotel room. The air grabs at my lungs, sucking moisture from my body, and I walk quickly over to
By Kaija Pepper The biggest news this quarter was the world premiere of Crystal Pite’s Revisor, a co-creation with Jonathon Young from Electric Company Theatre. All four performances at the Vancouver Playhouse, in February, sold out months in advance, an unheard of success in the local dance world. Pite and Young have become a force