By Marisa C. Hayes “How would you dance if you knew you were going to die?” asked Pina Bausch in 1975 while choreographing her expressionist The Rite of Spring. Now a cast of dancers from 14 African nations explores the same question amid the backdrop of an ongoing pandemic that grounded their international tour in
By Rebecca Karpus Historical dance works are not nearly as accessible as paintings and music from the past, which are reasonably easy to access through art galleries, inexpensive reproductions, sheet music, and audio files. Beyond the rare film record and fleeting remounts onstage, where does dance of the past live? How do dancers and audiences
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