By Michael Crabb The Toronto dance scene has sprung back to a close approximation of pre-pandemic normality with a welcome stampede of live performances by local and visiting artists. Dancer-choreographer Nova Bhattacharya was first out of the gate in September with the premiere of Svāhā!, a joyful work for an all-female 22-dancer cast. The title comes
By Kathleen Smith For dancer/choreographer Syreeta Hector, the solo work Black Ballerina is the distillation of years-long personal research into identity, family history and how to be an artist in a society that tends to tamp down both. Created largely pre-pandemic, and two years in the making, Black Ballerina poetically gathers the threads of Hector’s