A Review of Brown, by Kamal Al-Solaylee (HarperCollins, 2016)
The subtitle for Kamal Al-Solaylee’s 2016 book is “What Being Brown in the World Means Today (to Everyone).” I picked…
Talking Arts: Kate Hilliard About Her New Piece, …this happened
Kate Hilliard is a Toronto-based artist and the Artistic Director of Granite Motion Gallery. What fascinates me about her work…
Kylie Thompson: When Collaboration Brings Opportunity
A good portion of my dance training involved dance exams. In the case of tap, I even had to memorize…
How to Understand Contemporary Dance Shows
Last year, I watched Yvonne Ng once dance a duet with Robert Glumbek at The Registry Theatre in Kitchener, Ontario.…
Svetlana Dvoretsky: The Woman Behind Theatre
A Russian-Canadian Impresario Have you ever heard of the word “impresario”? That’s someone who organizes and maybe even finances performing…
What Is Flamenco Dance? Myriam Allard Answers
Continuing With Flamenco Last month, I wrote about Bonnie Masina, a woman who took up flamenco dance at age 50.…
Exploring Creativity by Exposing Yourself More
Engage With Your Art Form Theatre guru Trevor Copp has a bowl of theatre tickets, roughly 1,200 of them. The…
Flamenco at 50: “It’s too easy when we age to give up. I don’t agree with that.”
Starting Dance Past 50 When I turned 40, I suddenly cared about aging. Always active in my younger years through…
Alejandro Álvarez Cadilla: How a Dancer Becomes a Producer
With Change on the Horizon, Cadilla Moved Towards It Life is full of transitions, and I won’t bore you with…
Mitchell Cushman is on a Curious Voyage
It’s another Hollywood cliché (I seem to be taking a lot of digs at Hollywood lately): the loner who wants…
