Videos
Chimera
Chimera, an energetic, kaleidoscopic dancefilm written and directed by Paris-based filmmaker Steven Briand, is inspired by the chimera, a mythological hybrid of a lion, goat and snake.
Posted May 27, 2016
Dance featured at Open Ears Festival
The festival in Kitchener, ON, features national and international sound artists and musicians and includes everything from orchestral music to electroacoustic experimental music, sound installation and performance.
Posted May 25, 2016
Swan Lake Syndrome
The forty-minute solo by Toronto-based artist Linnea Swan is a comedic and poignant autobiography of the highs and lows of a life and career in dance – starting with having the last name Swan as a young ballerina.
Posted May 24, 2016
Prescriptions
Prescriptions is the latest art-meets-dance collaboration between ibiki.co founder Jonah Leslie and Compagnie Marie Chouinard dancer Paige Culley.
Posted May 20, 2016
Long Weekend Salsa
Salsa is infectious. It has an energy and radiance that fills the body with rhythm, imploring the hips to move. The Montréal Salsa Convention takes place May 19 through 23 featuring international and Canadian dancers.
Posted May 16, 2016
Basketball-ography, Anyone?
The Harlem Globetrotters recently made their way through six Canadian provinces on an eighteen-city tour, and here they take to an outdoor basketball court in Greenwich Village to mix cool tricks with bouncing beats.
Posted May 13, 2016
Steer
Continuing the company’s mandate to push the current artistic climate via innovative technological elements, Steer questions the physical as well as the intangible line between modern humans and our machines.
Posted May 11, 2016
Simon Fraser University Bhangra Flash Mob
In 2010, South Asian Arts began teaching the first university-accredited bhangra course in North America at Simon Fraser University. On April 7, 2011, for their final project, the students performed a Bhangra Flash Mob outside Rogers Arena in Vancouver, immediately following the unveiling of Roger Neilson’s statue before a Canucks game.
Posted May 9, 2016
Against Nature / À Rebours
James Kudelka’s newest work, Against Nature / À Rebours, is the second in a series of salon-style creations for Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie.
Posted May 9, 2016
Paradoxe Mélodie
This May, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal has invited Danièle Desnoyers to create a choreographic work for its program, pairing six dancers from her company, with the music of the new organ played by OSM’s organist-in-residence Jean-Willy Kunz.
Posted May 5, 2016
Nous (ne) sommes (pas) tous des danseurs.
A dance about dancers: this is the idea behind a new artistic proposal by performer, instructor and coach Sophie Corriveau in collaboration with interpreter and dramaturge Katya Montaignac.
Posted May 5, 2016
The Midnight Birth
Québec-based artists Oliver Koomsatira and Kim Henry use contemporary dance and live performance to bring a rap album to life at the fourteenth annual rock.paper.sistahz Festival in Toronto.
Posted May 2, 2016
Project RAD's International Dance Day Message
Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli is the Canadian Dance Assembly’s National Youth Ambassador for Dance. Along with his organization, Project RAD, Patuelli imparts an International Dance Day message of inclusiveness.
Posted April 29, 2016
La Grande Fente and Culture in the Schools
Seventy-nine Montréal secondary school students perform new work by La Grande Fente on International Dance Day.
Posted April 28, 2016
Re-Quickening
From a post-colonial perspective, Re-Quickening reconstructs feminine power through performance, music and art and features a powerhouse team of international indigenous women.
Posted April 27, 2016
Une danse olympique
A flash mob organized by Regroupement québécois de la danse for International Dance Day 2015.
Posted April 26, 2016
League of Exotique Dancers
League of Exotique Dancers explores the golden era of burlesque through real stories of the women who made it glitter.
Posted April 22, 2016
Nicole Nigro in Ford Advantage
New work by Toronto-based Nicole Nigro explores minivans, renewal and the intersection of joy and grief.
Posted April 20, 2016
Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company
Voted Toronto’s Best Dance Company of 2015 by NOW Magazine readers, the Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company takes to the stage this spring with a new work, Épocas.
Posted April 19, 2016
