by Holly Harris The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s artistic director André Lewis took audiences down memory lane with the program Our Story, featuring seminal turning points in the company’s 78-year history. The historically rich mixed bill, also celebrating Canada 150, paid homage to six prominent choreographers who have left their footprint on the “Prairie fresh” company,
by Holly Harris There’s little doubt that HIV/AIDS has changed the dance world forever, with many artists lost since the pandemic first took hold during the 1980s. It has also fueled generations of choreographers to create powerful works as an artistic response. The premiere of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers As Though I Had Wings by artistic
by Kaija Pepper Q Dance made its debut at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2009, four months before it was actually founded in the mid-size prairie city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Artistic director-to-be Peter Quanz was premiering his contemporary ballet, In Tandem, as part of a double bill shared with New York modern dance