By Robin J. Miller March 12, 2020: Dance Victoria was one day away from presenting Ballet BC’s Romeo and Juliet at Victoria’s Royal Theatre. Thirty-two dancers had just arrived by ferry. Then BC’s public health chief, Dr. Bonnie Henry, made her fateful announcement. “We thought the shuttering of theatres wouldn’t happen until the next week,
By Bridgit Luján Few gypsies still live in Granada’s Sacromonte caves, but the performing venues known as zambras continue to flourish. “Zambra” references a song and dance party that dates back to the 16th-century nuptial rituals of the Moors; last year, the city of Granada initiated procedures with UNESCO to declare the zambras of Sacromonte
By Silvia Poletti On February 29, 2020, when I entered the beautiful Piccinni Theatre in the port city of Bari, I did not imagine it would be the last time I would be an audience member for a long while. That evening was a feast. The theatre had opened just two months earlier after eight