By Tin Gamboa “No matter what, I feel like this is what I’m supposed to do,” said Lorelei Williams, the founder of Butterflies in Spirit, a Vancouver group that works to advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and their families through the healing power of dance. When we spoke recently, Williams
By Tessa Perkins Deneault Splitting his time between the worlds of ballet and traditional Indigenous dance, Cameron Fraser-Monroe is a busy choreographer and dancer. While it can be difficult to balance working in more than one dance style, Fraser-Monroe plans to continue pursuing his parallel creative outlets. “Contemporary dance feeds my physicality — my desire
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