By Kaija Pepper The title of Jeanette Kotowich’s Kisiskâciwan comes from the Cree word for “swift-flowing river,” kisiskâciwanisîpiy, which became Saskatchewan — the prairie province where she grew up. In this choreographic memoir, Kotowich (now based in Vancouver) looks back to her childhood, evoking the gently rolling land’s geographical contours in a series of still
By Naomi Mori Tokyo City Ballet’s Swan Lake is noteworthy for the stage design by École de Paris painter Léonard Foujita, who created it for the first ever Japanese production of Swan Lake in 1946, for Tokyo Ballet (not the same company that is currently active) when Tokyo was still in the aftermath of World
By Kaija Pepper Everything will be ok — despite the reassuring title of the final work on Ballet BC’s May 12-14 triple bill at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the visions presented onstage were dark ones. There is good news behind the scenes at the company — they will soon be moving into their own home