Videos
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
Flesh and a Broken Whisper
Justine Comfort in rehearsal for Flesh and a Broken Whisper by John Ottman, presented as part of Older & Reckless 37: Old & Young and Reckless Together
Posted April 6, 2016
L O N E L Y L O N E L Y
L O N E L Y L O N E L Y is a short dancefilm featuring Francesca Chudnoff and Lukas Malkowski.
Posted April 2, 2016
INDEEP
Montréal artists commit to ten hours straight of exploration between choreography, visual art and cinematography.
Posted April 1, 2016
Funny/Funeral
Sabina Perry, with Molly Johnson, makes a mixtape of the past – the good and the bad.
Posted March 30, 2016
Gioconda Barbuto in Car-Men by Jiří Kylián
Toronto-born artist Gioconda Barbuto has been admired unflaggingly for four decades. Lucy M. May’s profile, “The Body Magnetic,” meets the Canadian artist.
Posted March 23, 2016
