By Rebecca Karpus The Arts Umbrella Senior Dance Company is in rehearsal. The dancers are masked, spaced, and do not touch one another. Despite these safety protocols, the studios on Vancouver’s Granville Island hum with excitement, hope, and tenacity. There is a captivating dualism of difficulty and opportunity in the air, which poses the question: How
By Rachel Silver Maddock In 2018, Ballet BC traded in the traditional model of apprenticeship for their new and more substantial Emerging Artists program. The venture is reimagining the transition of young dancers into working professionals, and creating new roles in the company structure somewhere between apprentice and junior company member. “We wanted to build