By Kathleen Smith Questions of embodiment frequently crop up in this current post-pandemic moment. There’s tension between the newly urgent drive to digital and the inescapable fact that we live in bodies that are not machines, that need connection and company. We look to technology for better or longer lives, flesh enhanced with gadgets or
By Tessa Perkins Deneault Ralph Escamillan’s gateway to dance was a breaking class at Harbour Dance Centre in Vancouver. He was 14, and during his first class they had a cypher, when everyone forms a circle and takes turns performing freestyle in the centre. “There was such a rush of excitement and fear, and that
by Tessa Perkins Deneault It sounds like something out of a dream: shadow one of the world’s preeminent choreographers as she travels the globe presenting new works and preparing remounts, all while joining her company as an understudy. As an apprentice with Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, Renée Sigouin is living this dream. Sigouin met Pite