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Contemporary Dance

Do Black Dance Companies Hit a Glass Ceiling?

Anya Wassenberg | Posted 04.01.2012 | Canada
Read More: Contemporary Dance, Black Dance, Black Culture, International Association of Blacks in Dance, African Dance, Canada News
Anya Wassenberg

It's hard to understand a rationale for the lingering reluctance of mainstream society to truly embrace the work of people of colour as an essential element of its own culture -- not an exception, not as a special category forever locked in a time vault of supposed historical purity.

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Dance = Life

Anya Wassenberg | Posted 12.29.2011 | Canada
Read More: Contemporary Dance, Kevin Ormsby, Classical Dance, Claus Award Winner, Herbert Von Karajan, Koerner Hall, Baaba Maal, Jeanguy Saintus, African Dance, Dancing, Canada News
Anya Wassenberg

All the arts are subjected to a kind of elitism that removes it entirely from the experience of the common man, and perhaps dance most of all. You are not a dancer. Your role as a loyal patron of the arts is to sit very still and very quiet in the dark as you watch others perform.

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