By Rebecca Karpus Historical dance works are not nearly as accessible as paintings and music from the past, which are reasonably easy to access through art galleries, inexpensive reproductions, sheet music, and audio files. Beyond the rare film record and fleeting remounts onstage, where does dance of the past live? How do dancers and audiences
By Steve Sucato Charlotte Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Celebration program, delayed from 2020 because of the global pandemic, was worth the wait. The final production for outgoing artistic director Hope Muir (now artistic director at the National Ballet of Canada), the program cast a wide net in terms of audience tastes, with four topflight works that
By Rachel Silver Maddock In 1997, at the age of 42, Mary-Louise Albert had spent two decades dancing professionally and was ready to move on to the next stage of her life. As a final curtain call, the Vancouver dancer commissioned a series of solos from choreographers across Canada. Three of those solos will be