By: Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:48:59 +0000

As an AD of a dance company working in the artistic remoteness of northern Canada (Edmonton) , we have been forced to change our ways of working and presenting dance in order to reach the audiences here, who are in general dismissive of abstraction in dance. This has resulted in using non-dancers, actors, live musicians and media artists to reach crossover audiences, It has also caused us to use many non-theatre venues and site specific locations, and to promote our own events with free 'trailers' in the city in busy areas. This type of evolution of dance in this area seems necessary. Evolve or Die as they say in punk rock!

By: JD

JD — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:26:23 +0000

Well, I am quite astonished to see how you manage to memorize (or write ?) all the circumstances of each performance you describe. I could not do so. I am a sort of thwarted poet, and for me dance can be (when good, and even sometimes when bad) the strongest source of inspiration. I am sometimes writing some critics that are poems in prose (if you like French, see e. g. link to imagesdedanse.over-blog.com), and I regret not accompanying them by some critical, and plainer descriptions like yours. But that would be a very heavy work for me.
By the way, you remind me of the booklets that are distributed to spectators before performances at the Theatre de la Ville : almost always, they do not say at all what you are going to see, and actually often do not mean much. That is pretty irritating. Fortunately, we have blogs now, to tell the truth ;-) …

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By: Gerry

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