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Creative Process: The late, great Paul Taylor’s Three Dubious Memories

By Rachel Silver Maddock In Paul Taylor: Creative Domain, director Kate Geis and her team remarkably capture the creative process of late American modern dance master Paul Taylor. The 82-minute documentary (released in 2015 and recently re-released on streaming platforms and DVD) records the process of Taylor choreographing a single dance, Three Dubious Memories (2011),

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Why We Dance: CBC’s The Nature of Things has some interesting thoughts

By Kathleen Smith By exploring the diverse work of a handful of international scientists and artists, the new CBC documentary Why We Dance sets out to demonstrate how we learn, connect with each other, and survive through movement. Much more than a social ritual or performance spectacle, the film concludes, dance is a tool for

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