This review of Wayne McGregor’s Entity originally appeared in the Globe and Mail on Feb. 8, 2011. The performance took place at the Grand Theatre in Kingston ON before moving on to Ottawa and Montreal. Entity is back in Canada, appearing at the Fleck Dance Theatre as part of Harbourfront World Stage, Feb. 28 to Mar. 3, […]
Tina Rasmussen is director of performing arts, and artistic director of World Stage at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. In the latter case, she walks a fine line programming Canadian and international artists for one of Toronto’s premiere series. Calgary-born, Rasmussen graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton with a degree in theatre, winning the prestigious […]
Laurence Lemieux christened the new studio theatre at the Citadel with a very personal solo. The dancer/choreographer chose a very abstract topic – a piece to honour her father, renown Quebec political scientist Vincent Lemieux. The title comes from a book that Vincent Lemieux wrote – Les cheminements de l’influence, or in English, Pathways of […]
Choreographer Linda Garneau has made it her life’s work to create full-length, jazz dance shows with serious themes. Her new show Unearth is about the search for self-liberation. By digging deep inside our hearts and minds, we will find self-love which will, in turn, help us to unravel the tangled knots we carry inside us. […]
The übertalented, Australian-born Steven McRae is a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet. McRae made a sensational debut in James Kudelka’s The Nutcracker with the National Ballet of Canada on Sunday, in the dual role of Peter, the Stable Boy/Nutcracker Prince. Audiences might remember McRae as the techno-wizard, tap dancing Mad Hatter in Christopher Wheeldon’s […]
