By Philip Szporer As partners in life and work, Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth, co-artistic directors of Montreal’s Parts+Labour_Danse, are on the move. Quite literally. They recently bought their first condo in the Verdun borough, a world away from their friends and colleagues across town, which houses their private living space, and also the company
By Victor Swoboda The embattled culture of Norway’s Indigenous Sami people is at the heart of work by Elle Sofe Sara, a 39-year-old dancemaker and filmmaker whose presentations over the past several years have alerted European audiences to her people’s history. Her 2021 choreography, Vástádus eana — The answer is land, opens Montreal’s 16-day Festival
By Tin Gamboa “No matter what, I feel like this is what I’m supposed to do,” said Lorelei Williams, the founder of Butterflies in Spirit, a Vancouver group that works to advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and their families through the healing power of dance. When we spoke recently, Williams