By Michael Crabb Apart from the perennial issues of funding, one can only imagine the logistical challenges facing the organizers of an annual festival such as Toronto’s Fall For Dance North (FFDN) in the still unsettled wake of a disruptive global pandemic. Festivals are generally mapped out years in advance, often based on the international
By Sanjoy Roy Many recent London performances were not strictly recent at all, but rather programs that had been on hold through several waves of COVID restrictions, and revived in the autumn while the going looked good (not before time: a new wave has put the dampers on again). These works emerged into a different
By Michael Crabb The biggest single event of the 2021 Fall For Dance North Festival, September 11 to October 29, was the screening before a live 450-member audience in Toronto’s 3,200-seat Meridian Hall of a triple bill of films called Signature Program — this despite the fact that according to recently eased public health mandates