By Tessa Perkins Deneault “There are certain things we can’t explain and ways we’re connected that don’t have any basis in our regular logic,” says Vancouver-based choreographer Lesley Telford. “We’re connected in so many ways, like the unseen roots of trees.” Connection across distance, and the relationship between people and how they impact each other,
By Elaine Gaertner Vaslav Nijinsky wrote in his diary, “Applause is not opinion. Applause is a feeling of love for the artist.” The following four artists — Muriel Valtat, Andrea Boardman, Gaby Baars, and José Manuel Carreño — have felt this love, a palpable embrace from audiences around the world. Today they have abandoned the
As part of its 40th anniversary tour, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago came to Quebec’s Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur with a sophisticated, upbeat and varied program. The company ethos, under the artistic leadership of Glenn Edgerton (a former principal dancer at Joffrey Ballet and then executive artistic director at Nederlands Dans Theater), is to bring