By Gavin Larsen My inspiration for The Rib-Cracking Episode, a chapter in Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life, came from my friend and fellow dance writer, Martha Ullman West. Martha and I had an ongoing email conversation as I was working on my book in which I shared with her
By Kyeren Regehr An artistic director has the power to lift a dancer to company stardom, or to house her in the wings. Interview with the Creator offers a composite of several artistic directors and choreographers who I worked with in Australia in the 1990s. It explores the way their position of power, and their
By Kaija Pepper The Vancouver Ballet Society, the not-for-profit organization that has published Dance International since 1977, celebrates its 75th anniversary. In earlier years, VBS was a presenter, mounting shows at downtown theatres. Some were mixed bills by local choreographers, others were gala affairs, such as the one in which two high-profile guests from London’s