Anya Wassenberg

I caught up with Young Jean Lee, often described as a rising star of avant-garde theatre, on the phone just as her production of The Shipment begins performances in Toronto.

To say that the theatrical works of Young Jean Lee are thematically diverse is something of...

"The platforms for black dance are so narrow," states acclaimed Australian independent choreographer Bernadette Walong-Sene.

It was a sentiment that echoed over and over in the panel discussion I attended at the 2012 International Association of Blacks in Dance (I.A.B.D.) Conference that just ended Sunday, January 30 in Toronto...

A few years ago, I tuned out the news. It wasn't really meant to be a permanent decision, but nonetheless I did make a clean break with TV and radio newscasts, newspapers, and news magazines (although it's virtually impossible to entirely escape headlines when you're on the Internet). Around the...

Prosecutor
Law. No Order.
A documentary film screening and Q&A with Luis Moreno Ocampo, Stephen Lewis and filmmaker Barry Stevens
Nov. 14, 2011 in Toronto

"The Nazis killed millions of people. We said never again. We were wrong."

"The age of impunity is ending."

These...

I come from a culture that doesn't dance.

There is a series of videos you may be fortunate enough to catch on YouTube at some point. It comes from a 1966 film of the Berliner Philharmoniker performing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony under Herbert von Karajan (and the reason you probably...

I was going to be an important and well-paid writer, see. The modelling thing, that was just to tide me over till the whole writing gig took off, because I knew that you could basically walk in off the street and get work taking your clothes off for artists. But...

I interviewed South African trumpet player and composer Hugh Masekela on tour last year. At 71, he's been playing and recording since the late 1950s, and his work has been variously filed under jazz, classical, contemporary North American adult, and as African music, all terms he has little time for....

I just finished reading To See The Mountain and other stories, the anthology for the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, and it struck me with a feeling that took me back to my university days some 25 years ago.

I was studying French at McMaster University,...