Lori's Blog on Books, Writing, and Creativity
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Category: Canadian Creators
       
Talking Arts: Kate Hilliard About Her New Piece, …this happened
Lori Wolf-Heffner | January 27, 2020
Kate Hilliard is a Toronto-based artist and the Artistic Director of Granite Motion Gallery. What fascinates me about her work and …this happened, her new, contemporary piece at Compagnie + Citadel…
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Kylie Thompson: When Collaboration Brings Opportunity
Lori Wolf-Heffner | August 10, 2019
A good portion of my dance training involved dance exams. In the case of tap, I even had to memorize step definitions. “Tap: strike the floor with the ball of…
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How to Understand Contemporary Dance Shows
Lori Wolf-Heffner | June 20, 2019
Last year, I watched Yvonne Ng once dance a duet with Robert Glumbek at The Registry Theatre in Kitchener, Ontario. It was called “Stone Velvet,” and is a well-known piece…
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Svetlana Dvoretsky: The Woman Behind Theatre
Lori Wolf-Heffner | December 4, 2018
A Russian-Canadian Impresario Have you ever heard of the word “impresario”? That’s someone who organizes and maybe even finances performing arts events, including concerts, plays, ballets, operas, and more. It’s…
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What Is Flamenco Dance? Myriam Allard Answers
Lori Wolf-Heffner | September 22, 2018
Continuing With Flamenco Last month, I wrote about Bonnie Masina, a woman who took up flamenco dance at age 50. This month, I ask the question: What is flamenco? And…
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Exploring Creativity by Exposing Yourself More
Lori Wolf-Heffner | September 11, 2018
Engage With Your Art Form Theatre guru Trevor Copp has a bowl of theatre tickets, roughly 1,200 of them. The bowl makes its stage appearance when Copp judges the Ontario…
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Flamenco at 50: “It’s too easy when we age to give up. I don’t agree with that.”
Lori Wolf-Heffner | July 25, 2018
Starting Dance Past 50 When I turned 40, I suddenly cared about aging. Always active in my younger years through dance, and proudly displaying a photo of me doing the…
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Alejandro Álvarez Cadilla: How a Dancer Becomes a Producer
Lori Wolf-Heffner | June 29, 2018
With Change on the Horizon, Cadilla Moved Towards It Life is full of transitions, and I won’t bore you with a list of all the usual ones. But as you…
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Mitchell Cushman is on a Curious Voyage
Lori Wolf-Heffner | June 1, 2018
It’s another Hollywood cliché (I seem to be taking a lot of digs at Hollywood lately): the loner who wants to risk it all for his (sometimes her) goal, and…
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Art is Exploration: Sasha Ivanochko’s Double Bill at The Citadel
Lori Wolf-Heffner | May 28, 2018
Last time, I talked about how art isn’t only about those Hollywood-movie moments of inspiration, that ideas can take time to develop. But why? What makes it so difficult to…
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