By Rachel Silver Maddock In 2018, Ballet BC traded in the traditional model of apprenticeship for their new and more substantial Emerging Artists program. The venture is reimagining the transition of young dancers into working professionals, and creating new roles in the company structure somewhere between apprentice and junior company member. “We wanted to build
By Michael Crabb William Forsythe once memorably stated: “If dance only does what we assume it can do, it will expire.” Forsythe, who turns 70 on December 30, has spent the better part of his career ensuring that does not happen. He did not set out to be a revolutionary, but the effect of his
by Kaija Pepper “Are you here? We can’t see you, the lights are in our eyes … We can’t hear you when the music plays.” These sentences were projected onto the backdrop near the beginning of Still, a 40-minute work co-created by mid-career artists taking part in Banff Centre’s Creative Gesture workshop in summer 2016.