Feature: Finding Space for Creativity on Another Coast

Dance International

A Column for “Life Moves” on Meredith Kalaman’s relocation from Vancouver to Halifax, Nova Scotia and her journey establishing her practise in a new city.

“In June 2020, Meredith Kalaman had a realization. She was standing in a supermarket in Vancouver looking at an eight-dollar carton of organic, free-range eggs when something snapped — these eggs weren’t getting any cheaper and living in the big city just wasn’t serving her as an artist.

I had this idea that my career depended on the city. Then when everything stopped because of the pandemic, I realized that’s so far from the truth,” she says…”