By Kathleen Smith Questions of embodiment frequently crop up in this current post-pandemic moment. There’s tension between the newly urgent drive to digital and the inescapable fact that we live in bodies that are not machines, that need connection and company. We look to technology for better or longer lives, flesh enhanced with gadgets or
By Robin J. Miller Victoria, BC, is a small, somewhat sleepy city perched on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Yet in a little over two weeks in January, it was possible to take in seven live dance performances, and it would have been eight inside three weeks had not COVID complications made it impossible
By Kaija Pepper Vancouver’s in-theatre fall dance season has begun! The much-missed DanceHouse series took off in late October with a performance at the Playhouse by Victor Quijada’s RUBBERBAND group from Montreal. In Ever So Slightly, featuring 10 super-charged young dancers, Quijada’s mix of street and contemporary dance styles made for a bright, well-paced 75