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
By Rachel Silver Maddock Two years ago, seven Vancouver dance artists from very different aesthetic backgrounds came together to thrash out and define the meaning of contemporary and traditional in terms of their dance practice. Colleen Lanki of TomoeArts, who works in the Japanese form of nihon buyoh; Margaret Grenier of Dancers of Damelahamid, who
By Kaija Pepper When Margaret Hart married Gitxsan Chief Kenneth Harris in 1953, she was groomed by her mother-in-law in the duties and functions that were now her responsibility. Important among them was to carry forward the traditional songs and dances of her husband’s lineage as a chief of the Gitxsan people — the People