By Kaija Pepper For 35 years, over 10 days each July, Vancouver — a port city on the edge of the Pacific Ocean — has been the loyal home to Canada’s longest-running professional dance festival, Dancing on the Edge. This edition included only one international company and most mixed bills featured just two productions. But
By Tessa Perkins Deneault Ralph Escamillan’s gateway to dance was a breaking class at Harbour Dance Centre in Vancouver. He was 14, and during his first class they had a cypher, when everyone forms a circle and takes turns performing freestyle in the centre. “There was such a rush of excitement and fear, and that
by Tessa Perkins Deneault It sounds like something out of a dream: shadow one of the world’s preeminent choreographers as she travels the globe presenting new works and preparing remounts, all while joining her company as an understudy. As an apprentice with Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, Renée Sigouin is living this dream. Sigouin met Pite