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April 15, 2013
Are you looking for a creative learning experience this summer? Want to hone your existing skills, extend your professional knowledge, or simply explore an exciting new art form for personal interest and... Read more
April 11, 2013
The York Dance Ensemble, the exuberant resident company of York University’s Department of Dance, marks its 25th anniversary with "Rite Redux", a celebration of dance, music and spectacle culminating... Read more
April 04, 2013
From the near-riot at its Paris premiere in 1913 to the impressive number of remounts and re-interpretations it has inspired worldwide, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), choreographed by Vaslav... Read more
March 13, 2013
Dance ethnographer Patrick Alcedo has created a documentary film about the Ati-Atihan Festival, a hybrid, layered performance melding pre-colonial and colonial traditions, the carnivalesque and the... Read more
March 05, 2013
Hael Kobayashi, executive director of Creative Intelligence at the University of Technology, Sydney and chair of Digital Sydney, Australia, is the featured speaker for the 2013 Wendy Michener Lecture... Read more
February 12, 2013
MFA candidates in York’s Graduate Program in Dance – choreography and dramaturgy premiere a cluster of original works in The Field, opening Feb. 13 in the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre,... Read more
November 19, 2012
As autumn afternoons segue into nippy winter nights, the Department of Dance celebrates the turn of the season with “Dance Innovations: Frost Moon Dances”, running Nov. 22 to 24. York’s rising... Read more
November 15, 2012
More than 35 graduates in dance, design, digital media, film, music, theatre and visual art/art history returned to campus Oct. 20 for Connect/Reconnect, the Faculty of Fine Arts’ fourth annual... Read more
October 22, 2012
Five rising choreographers in York’s Dance MFA program in Contemporary Choreography and Dance Dramaturgy have discovered that, despite diverging interests, they have a lot in common.
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September 25, 2012
This Saturday, September 29 from dusk until dawn, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will transform downtown Toronto into a giant, all-night art party. An estimated one million visitors are expected to turn out for... Read more