By Jenn Edwards Two pillars of Vancouver’s Indigenous dance community, Margaret Grenier and Starr Muranko, are Ballet BC’s 2022-2023 artists in residence. Working in tandem, they are meeting with company dancers once a month to explore intersections between contemporary ballet and the Indigenous forms they practice as artistic directors of Dancers of Damelahamid and Raven
By Kaija Pepper When Margaret Hart married Gitxsan Chief Kenneth Harris in 1953, she was groomed by her mother-in-law in the duties and functions that were now her responsibility. Important among them was to carry forward the traditional songs and dances of her husband’s lineage as a chief of the Gitxsan people — the People
by Tessa Perkins Deneault As a dance artist of Cree, Métis and mixed European descent from Treaty 4 Territory in Saskatchewan, Jeanette Kotowich’s cultural heritage is a source of inspiration for her work. She explores identity through dance, telling stories of culture, land and Indigenous traditions. To her, dance is a language that can express