By Kaija Pepper Rocío Molina has been dancing since the age of three, in 1987. The Malaga-born artist choreographed her first work, Entre paredes (Among the Walls) at age 22, and has made over a dozen more to date. She has worked with flamenco stars such as María Pagés and Israel Galván, and with the
By Sanjoy Roy The Royal Ballet has followed through on the success of Crystal Pite’s one-act Flight Pattern (2017) by expanding it into a full-evening triptych called Light of Passage. All three acts are cast in shadows set against suspended auroras of light, accompanied by the ebb and flow of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful
By Kaija Pepper A whole lot of girl! That, roughly, is the translation of Mucha Muchacha, the sprawling and explosive flamenco-influenced contemporary dance show that headlined the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival on September 16. The 70-minute piece from Spain filled the stage at the Norman Rothstein Theatre with wave after wave of female gusto, mixing