By Jennifer Fournier Amplified, a mixed-bill drive-in performance by Calgary’s Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, which took place downtown January 14-23, was an effective rebuke to almost two years of COVID-related cancellations — and underscored DJD’s singular vision and nimble leadership. Unable to perform in their own 230-seat theatre, the company seized on a pedestrian space called
by Kaija Pepper Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has attained mythic status since it was published in 1818. We all know some version of this dark story about a scientist who creates life from the body parts of corpses, and the horror that results when he abandons his physically repulsive creation. Left to cope alone with the
By Kate Stashko On the September 2018 day that Wen Wei Wang arrived in Edmonton to start his position as artistic director of Ballet Edmonton it was … snowing. Although not typical weather for the northern Canadian city at that time of year, it was unnerving for Wang, who is more used to the rainy