A Leader in Ballet Celebrates 10 Years

An interview with Emily Molnar, choreographer and director of Ballet BC BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Ten years ago, Emily Molnar assumed the directorship of Canada’s Ballet BC and turned the company into an innovative hub by commissioning new work and restructuring the company so as to make all the dancers soloists. […]

June 6, 2019  |  Read Article

Dancing Migrant Farmworkers’ Experiences

An Interview with Heryka Miranda BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Heryka Miranda is a dance artist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada who has been using approaches in expressive arts and dance movement therapy to work with migrant farmworker communities. Alongside Juan Luis Mendoza de la Cruz, she created The Sunflower Man using Indigenous […]

January 7, 2019  |  Read Article

Conversations, Processes and Insistences

An Interview with Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater is an artist who works in performance and is based in northern Ontario, Canada. She has exhibited in museums, videos and installations in Canada and abroad. Her work centers Indigenous knowledge production in and through orality, conversation and embodied practices, including dance. […]

January 3, 2019  |  Read Article

Appreciating the Passing: An Interview with Don Hewitt

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY BARTNING Don embodied the dance teacher archetype. He arrived early and prepared; he had given thought to what he wanted to say; he bestowed what he had to say with a measure of surety and kindness. He made me want to dance for him. […]

July 2, 2018  |  Read Article

Contact Improv’s Leviathan Studio

An Interview with Mark Young BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY SOREN WACKER Mark Young founded and built Leviathan, a dance studio dedicated to contact improvisation on Lasqueti Island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Home to about 400 year-round residents with a passenger-only ferry connecting the island to the […]

June 11, 2018  |  Read Article