I've stripped dance away to be able to make it through my day. My career has shifted from relying on others to hire me to understanding that I now need to be a self-starter, and I am going to patiently wait until I'm ready to make my own work and can give it the energy it requires. This choice was mine and I embrace it! And I admire anyone who can do both!
Read MoreI appreciate BLOOM, and particularly this iteration involving kids and family. In the past few years, a lot of dance artists are having kids. As we know, dancers don't get a whole lot of support; for instance at SFU there was a class for a while just for moms - a really important means to attend to their own body practice and catch a breath. BLOOM is a great way to support parent dancers, I’m grateful for the platform.
Read MoreHit the ground running to get your pay-what-you-can tickets for BLOOM KIDS!
Read MoreOf course, this is an unusual BLOOM – last time, we were sharing live dance and commentary with a live audience, this time, on-line – very different. But I support the arts in whatever ways I can. I have a lot of passion for it and want arts and culture to continue. I am inspired by movement.
Read More“In the summer, my kids found a dead bird and mouse near our home. My son buried, named, mourned them and decorated their graves. What I would like is for my children to reanimate the animals' imagined spirits in their movement.”
Read More“A handful of types of elementary particles, which vibrate and fluctuate constantly between existence and non-existence and swarm in space, even when it seems that nothing is there, combine together to infinity like the letters of a cosmic alphabet to tell the immense history of galaxies, of the innumerable stars, of sunlight, of mountain, woods, and fields of grain, of the smiling faces of the young at parties, and of the night sky studded with stars.”
Carlos Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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I genuinely go to a place where I feel, in the moment, that a work I am part of is everything that I am. I can’t always work on one project at a time - a frustration. Most of all, I focus on one room at a time. A project can be only one or two months long, but it is still a complete season in a way – and each season is jampacked.
Read MoreQuick taste of a documentary we’d love to make about Jennifer.
Read MoreAlan Storey’s sculptural design is the epicentre of a new MascallDance production Lurch (working title), currently in a choreographic research phase led by Justine Chambers at David Lam Park and Malkin Bowl. Join us in conversation with Alan.
Read MoreYou’re invited to the Mascall Dance Society virtual AGM. Details here!
Read MoreAre YOU….
Read MoreFor so many decades we had been in enclosed rooms and rehearsing in a park felt so public. But it was astonishing.
Read Morerehearsing in times of COVID19
Read MoreWe’re listening. Moving. Thrifting. Postponing. Cancelling..
Read More“There’s something potent about the time - and distance - lag. Making dances is close work. Then you’d have a very different perspective - at some point in the gestating of ideas, a deeper focus emerges, or some event takes place and gives a pivot point to the work. Time together in intimate communion then time apart where process continues.”
Sarah Chase, Choreographer
Read MoreToday is about sparking a massive, collective spike of generosity and giving of all kinds to help address this unprecedented need.
GIVING TUESDAY NOW is an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. Across Canada and around the world, healthcare systems are overwhelmed and millions of vulnerable people need support as social distancing and the economic impact take their toll. Giving Tuesday Now is a group effort to drive an influx of generosity, citizen engagement, business and philanthropy activation, and support for communities and charities around the world.
““When facing difficult challenges,
I always say to myself:
”Don’t go to fear”
and
”What are the blessings hidden in the shadows?””
— Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Read MoreBLOOM Talking Stick kicks off. Meet the artists.
Read MoreMascallDance
celebrates you -
friends old and new.
Thank you for joining us
in creation, energy
and discovery.
