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 Many current events seem to demand creative action. Dancers are responding by performing at protests, staging their own peaceful interventions or using dance as a way to draw attention to their causes. Dance as protest isn’t a new phenomenon, of course. Dance has long played a role in providing social commentary