dance

Moon Ribas uses a seismic sensor to feel the earth move

Meet New York-based ‘cyborg’ dancer Moon Ribas

Russia’s Bolshoi dance of history

Telling the story of Russia through one of the most famous ballets in the world

The real dance revolution

Where hockey skills are an asset and tights aren’t required

Emma Teitel on the real dance revolution — in men’s ballet

Dancing to a different drummer

Welcome to tap class, where ‘Tea for Two’ is no longer served

Tap enjoys an unlikely resurgence, to the songs of Radiohead and queen

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Avant-Garde choreographer Dana Gingras is big on ticks, kicks and shakes

The B.C.-born talent is creating a new vocabulary of movement

Dance of the Stanley Cup rioters

Dance of the Stanley Cup rioters

A hockey fan choreographs the night Vancouver famously embarrassed itself

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Cooking lessons from dancing tweens

Two young girls, ages 11 and 12, teach other kids how to embrace healthy eating

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The reign of Kain

Performing the most precarious dance of her career, Canada’s ballet queen taps Nureyev, Jagger, Chekhov—and Harper

Dirty Dancing in the Laurentians with Almodóvar

After two and a half weeks of being holed up in a cabin on a Laurentian lake, it’s time to break blog silence. It has rained every day I’ve been here except one. The weather in Quebec has been so unrelentingly wet this summer that it has become major news, literally. It’s all anyone talks about on the local English CBC radio. The lead front-page headline in The Gazette a couple of days ago was “Last call for vacation Fun” under a banner reading “Soggy summer.” Stuck indoors, I’ve plowed through a pile of books and various DVDs-including a boxed set of films by Pedro Almodóvar-but last night I broke the cabin fever with a road trip to St. Sauveur to catch a performance of a Brazilian dance troupe called Mimulus.