Dance

  • Companie Marie Chouinard’s Henri Michaux: Mouvements and Gymnopedies – Preview

    Companie Marie Chouinard’s Henri Michaux: Mouvements and Gymnopedies – Preview

    My preview of Companie Marie Chouinard’s Henri Michaux: Mouvements and Gymnopedies for the Calgary Herald online.

  • Dancing Monkey Laboratories’s Satellites – Preview

    Dancing Monkey Laboratories’s Satellites – Preview

    My preview of Satellites by Dancing Monkey Laboratories for Getdown.ca

  • 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…