By Jeannette Andersen During Germany’s first pandemic lockdown in March 2020, my initial reaction as a dance critic was, “Now I will watch all the performances online for which I usually do not have the time.” But very soon I found my attention trailing off. I got bored, whether I sat in front of my
By Kaija Pepper In the pandemic’s first year, along with cities worldwide, Vancouver dance was in a holding pattern. As elsewhere, once the idea of a lockdown became customary practice, companies and individuals quickly moved online with friendly, often home-based digital dance designed to keep artists in contact with their audiences. By 2021, however, these
By Michael Crabb Thanks to Digidance, an initiative by a consortium of major Canadian dance presenters, a new generation will this month have the opportunity to see why Jean-Pierre Perreault’s 1984 work Joe is considered a landmark in the evolution of Canadian contemporary choreography. Perreault, who died in 2002 at age 55, originally made Joe