The Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba company is a major force in Cuban dance. The company is coming to Centrepointe Theatre this weekend as part of a Canadian tour but before the show, the founder and director answered some questions from ARTSFILE about her own career and
The world has almost 40 years with HIV/AIDS. Treatment has improved dramatically and today the virus is manageable with drugs. But, while the health of those who carry the virus continues to improve, the stigma hasn't really gone away. It's something the Australian dancer, choreographer and writer
The NAC's English Theatre department has added some new blood along with some continuity. Artistic Director Jillian Keiley will stay in her post until at least 2022. She joined the NAC in 2012. She will be joined by a new managing director David Abel, who
Singer, songwriter, producer, actor and civil rights activist, 91 year old Harry Belafonte is a legendary name in the history of American culture. His Calypso album was the first to sell a million records in the U.S. and again in Europe. And he popularized a form
Three generations of Lara Kramer's family were dragged to the Pelican Falls Residential School near the community of Sioux Lookout in Northwestern Ontario. The school left a mark, one that the Montreal-based artist Kramer is trying to navigate for her self and for her family. She uses
Peter and Will Anderson are twins both genetically and musically. The brothers both play jazz music and both have a passion for the history of the form. They also both play the same reed instruments primarily clarinet and saxophone. Their life in music has taken
Marie Antoinette’s wig could be a play unto itself. An eye-grabber in the Three Sisters Theatre Company’s smart production of Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists at The Gladstone, the wig is a beehive of crumpled, handwritten pages emblazoned with a couple of books which, in turn, are
The soldiers seen in The Wounded, a new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum, are varied and valorous, but they are not victims. It’s tempting to call them heroes, though that’s not the point. Photographer Stephen Thorne’s purpose was that the wounded be seen. Thorne, who
Some stories need to be told because they reveal something important about a person or a country. The story of the black men who worked as porters on Canada's passengers trains is such a history. The former journalist and educator Cecil Foster has brought their story
Marcelle Hudon works with shadows, but her world is not a dark place. Hudon is a master of shadow puppetry and she brings an artist's eye to this ancient art form. It is so much more than the shadow bird you might make with your
