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Honing Resiliency

While the pandemic has put constraints on post-secondary training, dance programs are working to future-proof students’ careers

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Empty Seats at the Table

For artist-mothers, the pandemic has magnified the lack of support

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That’s a Wrap II

Dancefilms created during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Loud and Brave

Alyssa Martin’s company, Rock Bottom Movement, won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards this year, but she now realizes that they may not be as transformational as she once thought.

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All That We Are

Artists respond to the statement “ I don’t see colour ”

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Down the TikTok Rabbit Hole

TikTok offers people a way to move while isolated during COVID-19, but the popular app also comes with concerns

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Talking about Whacking/Waacking with Ashley “Colours” Perez

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Dance Interventions

Talking with two teachers who work with Parkinson’s patients

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Do You Call Yourself a “Dancer”?

Artists from across the country share whether they call themselves dancers

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Political Bodies

Dance and/as Protest

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All that Glitters…

How do studios decide to compete?

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Fearless Physicality

Athleticism in Toronto’s professional wrestling scene

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Myth-Busting

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Beginnings are Everywhere

Reflections on the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival

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Collective Copyright

Navigating authorship within contemporary dance

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Caribana is Our Stage

Embodying tradition, ritual and art in Canadian Carnival

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Where Are All the Women?

In an industry where women outnumber men, ballet still has a long way to go to achieve gender equality

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Decolonizing Dance Stages

Presenters talk about breaking barriers

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The Politics of Dance

The current moment of arts advocacy at the federal level

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Choreographing Community

Vancouver’s community-engaged dance momentum

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Expressive Bodies and Digital Cultures

Thinking about the Symposium IX on “Embodied Spaces”

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Broadening the Stage

Connecting with dance audiences through body diversity, representation and inclusivity

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Code of Silence

A call to action to address and prevent abuse in dance communities

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Moving Others

The relationship between audience engagement and attendance

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