By Michael Crabb Danny Grossman, once hailed as among Canada’s boldest, most innovative, and prolific choreographers, died of heart failure in Toronto on July 29 at the age of 80. During his long career Grossman created a total of 67 dances, mostly for his own Danny Grossman Dance Company, founded in 1978, but also, whether
By Victor Swoboda Guillaume Côté knows Shakespeare’s Hamlet well. In 2012, he performed the title role in American choreographer Kevin O’Day’s two-hour Hamlet, staged by the National Ballet of Canada, where Côté is a principal dancer. Then he danced the title role in his own short Hamlet Redux, at the 2018 Festival des Arts de St-Sauveur,
By Rachel Silver Maddock In the Italian folk dance the polka chinata, two men embrace, bending their knees and spinning in circles low to the ground. The Bolognese courtship dance from the early 1900s is difficult, exhausting, and requires hours of training to perfect. “It’s about how to deal with the weight of each other,