By Michael Crabb Apart from the perennial issues of funding, one can only imagine the logistical challenges facing the organizers of an annual festival such as Toronto’s Fall For Dance North (FFDN) in the still unsettled wake of a disruptive global pandemic. Festivals are generally mapped out years in advance, often based on the international
By Michael Crabb The biggest single event of the 2021 Fall For Dance North Festival, September 11 to October 29, was the screening before a live 450-member audience in Toronto’s 3,200-seat Meridian Hall of a triple bill of films called Signature Program — this despite the fact that according to recently eased public health mandates
By Tessa Perkins Deneault As physical distancing continues, dancers and dance companies continue to find innovative ways to present their works online. In part two of our series, The Show Must Go Online, we’ve compiled another list of the best online viewing, including footage of dancers at home, newly-released recordings of previous performances, dance films