By Michael Crabb Thanks to Digidance, an initiative by a consortium of major Canadian dance presenters, a new generation will this month have the opportunity to see why Jean-Pierre Perreault’s 1984 work Joe is considered a landmark in the evolution of Canadian contemporary choreography. Perreault, who died in 2002 at age 55, originally made Joe
By Sheenagh Pietrobruno When COVID-19 darkened and emptied the four performance spaces at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, the executive producer of NAC Dance, Cathy Levy, swiftly engaged with the Centre’s lively digital stage. Levy invited dance artists across Canada to apply to present their shows through #CanadaPerforms on Facebook Live, a relief effort launched by
At the January premiere of Unikkaaqtuat at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, we were welcomed by the NAC’s Indigenous Theatre artistic director Kevin Loring. He pointed out that we could expect to be puzzled: “Confusion is part of any cultural exchange, so please embrace it.” Embracing this ambitious collaboration between Igloolik’s social circus collective Artcirq, Quebec’s