Echoes from the field
18 September 2023
By Rymel Laroui
Echoes from the sector | Enhancing bodily expression through sensory experience by Melia Boivin
Dance invites me to collect clues, to investigate, to discover infinite potential. Lately, I’ve been taming and tasting certain approaches to somatic education that inspire me to think and act differently. This daily quest motivates me to renew myself both […]
Echoes from the field
17 August 2023
By le RQD
Echoes from the field | Dancing in the older adult brain
Over the past decade, researchers have been publishing data on the benefits of physical activity on the brain as we age. We’ve learned that higher levels of physical activity lead to lower risks of developing cognitive decline and dementia, that […]
Echoes from the field
22 June 2023
By le RQD
Echoes from the field | Janelle Hacault
As I geared up for Dancer Transition Resource Centre’s (DTRC) annual event “Industry Connect, ” for which I was a guest speaker this past weekend, I found myself reflecting on what I’ve learned throughout my dance career to ensure it […]
Echoes from the field
15 May 2023
By Foo Tai Wei, Charo
Each step at a time by Charo Foo Tai Wei
In honour of Asian Heritage Month, choreographer and performer Charo Foo Tai Wei shares her inspiring journey from Singapore to her current life in Quebec. In the mid-90s, in Singapore, I bought dance festival packages to watch different kinds of […]
Echoes from the field
13 April 2023
By Dupas, Mara
Being queer and shouting it from the rooftops – Issues of visibility in contemporary dance by Mara Dupas
Opinion. “As an emerging artist, I find myself more and more often confronted with the ordeal of biographical writing. Synthesizing, in more or less 150 words, my journey, my artistic approach, the themes that constitute the heart of my research, […]
Echoes from the field
23 June 2022
By le RQD
Celebrating Dance Through Cultural Backgrounds
I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t dancing. I lived in Kahnawake, Quebec in my early years, but then moved to Nova Scotia at a young age. I would always dance around the house and eventually started taking my […]
Echoes from the field
12 March 2020
By le RQD
Constants in Dramaturgical Practice
It is always interesting to try and articulate actions that arise mostly from an instinctual sense of what is required. Good days in dramaturgical thinking resemble a flow state where we are completely immersed in the work at hand. So […]