By Michael Crabb The pandemic has presented dance artists everywhere with financial and creative challenges that no amount of resilience can easily overcome. It presents an existential threat that, even with the arrival of vaccines, shows no sign of vanishing any time soon. If you can’t make dances and perform them for audiences, what in
By Kathleen Smith Once upon a time, dance was an integral part of the opera experience. Following the Greek model, in which opera comprises a plurality of forms — dance, music, song, poetry, design, acting — the work of early European composers such as Monteverdi, Rameau and Lully always contained a ballet or two. In
By Michael Crabb Toronto’s 2019-2020 dance season was heralded in October by the fifth annual edition of Fall For Dance North, a sampler of Canadian and foreign companies representing everything from meticulously stylized Indian classical dance to no-holds-barred urban moves, frequently with live musical accompaniment. Apart from FFDN’s high profile mainstage shows, made as affordable