By Rachel Silver Maddock In 1997, at the age of 42, Mary-Louise Albert had spent two decades dancing professionally and was ready to move on to the next stage of her life. As a final curtain call, the Vancouver dancer commissioned a series of solos from choreographers across Canada. Three of those solos will be
By Rachel Silver Maddock Music is pumping at the Vancouver café where we sit, surrounded by exposed red brick and industrial-cut wooden benches and tables. Belinda McGuire gently holds a cappuccino with two fingers. Her lightly freckled face has that post-rehearsal glow, and her eyes light up as she makes a sudden realization: “In a
By Kathleen Smith Dance on film as a standalone genre still felt new in the 1990s, when a kind of mini-Golden Era of activity occurred. Hybridity was a newish concept, and cultural institutions were anxious to appear progressive by embracing it. In Canada, dance and media collisions found regular support from the CBC, Bravo!FACT Foundation