Dance

  • Alberta Ballet’s Madame Butterfly – Review

    My review of Alberta Ballet’s Madame Butterfly for The Calgary Herald

  • Dancing a dramatic impulse

    Dancing a dramatic impulse

    Choreographer Richard Lee was inspired by song lines for his piece in Dancers’ Studio West Annual Alberta Dance Festival. The festival, The Dramatic Impulse, running September 5th to September 14th will feature 11 choreographers and over 20 dancers in two distinct programs. Lee’s piece, entitled The Shallows, a choreographed piece on himself, will be featured…

  • An evening of dance outside the box

    An evening of dance outside the box

    “Contemporary dance is very challenging to audiences and that’s normal,” Pamela Tzeng says, “audiences have to be comfortable with interpreting something and seeing new vocabulary [of movement].” A new vocabulary of movement is what is being created in Tzeng’s Make Shift Project, an evening of dance with two performances: The Box I Came In and…

  • 8:Bit – Review

    8:Bit – Review

    I was informed that 8:Bit is a video gaming reference. I didn’t know this. It would suggest, that someone who isn’t really into video games, wouldn’t be into a show about it. But said show also features contemporary dance, which I’m into, so I took a gamble of ManDance’s 8:Bit and it payed off. After…

  • Alberta Ballet’s Balletlujah! Review

    Here is my review of Alberta Ballet’s Balletlujah! for the Calgary Herald