By Marisa C. Hayes “How would you dance if you knew you were going to die?” asked Pina Bausch in 1975 while choreographing her expressionist The Rite of Spring. Now a cast of dancers from 14 African nations explores the same question amid the backdrop of an ongoing pandemic that grounded their international tour in
By Veronica Posth Alan Lucien Øyen, a Norwegian director and choreographer, tackles human dualities and contradictions through narrative works that are often a combination of fiction and reality. Frequently, his multimedia performance works are inhabited by stories that come partly from his imagination and partly from fragments of personal anecdotes shared by his dancers and
By Michael Crabb Toronto’s 2019-2020 dance season was heralded in October by the fifth annual edition of Fall For Dance North, a sampler of Canadian and foreign companies representing everything from meticulously stylized Indian classical dance to no-holds-barred urban moves, frequently with live musical accompaniment. Apart from FFDN’s high profile mainstage shows, made as affordable