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 Carolina Bergonzoni At the core of my practice as a community-engaged dance artist is a focus on process rather than final product. This often means longer incubation, development and rehearsal periods as I invest time and energy in analyzing the community I am working with and figuring out what is needed for people to
By Michael Crabb By the end of July 2021, if all goes according to plan, a sequence of six thematically linked but discrete dance solos will have been digitally captured in locations as far apart as Amsterdam and San Francisco. Edited together, these solos will constitute a new dance film called Switchback, scheduled for online