Kept repeating to myself recently-- surprised and proud-- I made a thing! The culmination of a lot of research and three performances of Distraction are finished. This March and April I had the joy and pleasure of participating in Bloom, a choreographic residency for emerging artists run by MascallDance in the beautiful West end of … Continue reading Making my own art
Reviewing VIDF 2019
I love writing for The Dance Current and it's especially good when I get to choose which shows I want to review. :) This year for Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) I decided to cover SHINY by Kelly McInnes and TRUST by 10 Gates Dancing (Tedd Robinson). It was an extremely busy March with lots … Continue reading Reviewing VIDF 2019
In Fiction: Vanessa Goodman
It is Saturday night and the Studio Theatre at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is all dressed up ready for the show, a full-length solo by Vancouver-based choreographer-performer Vanessa Goodman. When we enter the theatre there are about 50 chairs set up facing a corridor of white Marley dance floor, which seems to recede … Continue reading In Fiction: Vanessa Goodman
Sunset
[written in January 2019] We have time Long hours and golden sunlight Each day offers the same amount of hours Our city is awake (Never sleeping) and in the sun People brighten like tulips Turning their faces south. The water is always blue And the sunlight is dripping molten Curving around corners and … Continue reading Sunset
Saturday Afternoon at 2019 PuSh Festival
PuSh Festival in Vancouver is always a struggle because there is so much happening and only one of me. Today I managed to make it to two events and witness three dance performances- The Biting School's Suddenly Slaughter, and then Left of Push where plastic orchid factory premiered In Traduction [Le Manifeste] and twobigsteps collective remounted Ravel. * We have … Continue reading Saturday Afternoon at 2019 PuSh Festival
