By Kaija Pepper For 35 years, over 10 days each July, Vancouver — a port city on the edge of the Pacific Ocean — has been the loyal home to Canada’s longest-running professional dance festival, Dancing on the Edge. This edition included only one international company and most mixed bills featured just two productions. But
By Rachel Silver Maddock In June 2020, Meredith Kalaman had a realization. She was standing in a supermarket in Vancouver looking at an eight-dollar carton of organic, free-range eggs when something snapped — these eggs weren’t getting any cheaper and living in the big city just wasn’t serving her as an artist. “I had this
Thirty years is a long time. It’s an especially long time for a contemporary dance festival, and Dancing on the Edge is the longest-running one in Canada. At the helm since the beginning is producer Donna Spencer (who was joined by co-founder Esther Rausenberg for the first few years). Some local artists who were in