Tag: Dance

By Chris Courtice

There’s only so much fun to go around. Calgarians are busy people, with limited free time interspersed into their hectic schedules. So when it comes to the entertainment and arts scene in Calgary, those involved are fighting for as much exposure and attention as they can get. While music and theatre have commonly dominated the… Continue reading Dance Preview: Alberta Dance explodes onstage

By Garth Paulson

Let’s get something straight right away: this story is about dance. Yes, dance, that devilish series of body gyrations some people do for a living, more people submit to at the bar and everyone does in front of their mirror behind closed doors. Even though we all flail a leg to a good beat if… Continue reading Dance Preview: Flamenco Forms

By Richard Freeman

Blue Collar Dance asks what drives you with a powerful mix of urban street culture in Slammenberry Jam. The show brings together three different hip-hop squads, featuring the fly moves of C-Stylz, Wildcard Productions and malfunktion along with the rhymes of local rap group POETS, bringing street dancing to your everyday Calgarian. Tara Blue of… Continue reading Dance Preview: Calgary breaks

By Kristin McVeigh

You’re driving along in your car, and your favourite song comes on the radio. You just can’t help it, you start to boogie. You’re dancing like crazy. You look over into the next car and see a man doing another kind of boogie. You both look away, ashamed by your actions. Michèle Moss tells us… Continue reading Dance Preview: You can dance if you want to

By Roxanna Pullan

As the rain washes the streets, people seek the sanctuary of the great indoors to shake off their umbrellas and remove their rain jackets. One intimate venue safely inside is the Bubonic Tourist Plink Plink Plink Festival happening this weekend at Birds and Stone. Inside the cozy theatre, audiences can witness a festival of dances… Continue reading Dance Interview: Dancing for 120 seconds

By Stephanie Shewchuk

Ballet is hardly ever compared to hockey. Down at the local pub, inebriated patrons in tutus and hockey jerseys don’t engage in heated arguments or get into fisticuffs over which one is better. When putting the two side by side, burly hockey players beat the dancers into bloody pulps in pink tights. It’s even difficult… Continue reading Dance Preview: Hockey versus Ballet

By Naomi Sturtridge

A groan escapes the lips as you roll over to turn off the insidious machine interrupting dreams of lazing about on a tropical beach. Slowly awakening and stumbling out of bed in search of the bathroom, that’s when you catch a fleeting glimpse of yourself in the hall mirror and stop. This can’t be right.… Continue reading Dance Review: The happy-happy As I Am Dance

By Kristin McVeigh

Life sucks and then you die. A philosophy adopted as a mantra in our time. The linear philosophy of birth, life, then death being the be-all-end-all contradicts Santee Smith’s dance performance Kaha:wi. Her focus on the cyclical perspective of life comes from her Iroquian roots and allows for a refreshing new look at life, death,… Continue reading Dance Preview: Santee Smith grounded in dance

By Paul Jarvey

Easily one of the most publicly acclaimed ballets of all time, The Nutcracker is arriving with some of the world’s most talented dancers as the St. Petersburg State Ballet on Ice graces Calgary’s Saddledome. For over 40 years, the nutcracker prince has charmed audiences across the world with this classic tale of adventure and magic.… Continue reading Dance Preview: The Nutcracker hits the ice–ballet stylee

By Roxanna Pullan

As the fallen leaves become coated with their inevitable winter blanket, November marches boldly into December. For some reason, perhaps because of the coming bleakness, peoples’ minds turn to thoughts of celebration. The dance community is no different. Every year, when heavy coats and comical toques are trundled out, Calgary dancers embrace Dance Montage, a… Continue reading Dance Preview: Dancers of the proletariat unite