by Charlie Smith on February 24th, 2021 at 5:25 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4
Renowned Vancouver dance artist Joshua Beamish has thought a great deal about the differences between being a choreographer and a dancer.
In a phone interview with the
Straight, he describes choreography as “really intellectually demanding” because it involves understanding how to communicate with a dancer while learning how they work and what their body is capable of doing.
“So there’s a lot of investigation,” Beamish says. “It’s like scanning. I feel you’re constantly scanning through material, seeking things that are resonant or vital.”
He explains that dancers, on the other hand, “are kind of in an unknown state” as they set out to achieve the choreographer’s vision and decode certain requests.
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by Charlie Smith on January 27th, 2021 at 7:13 AM 1 of 3 2 of 3
Most people don’t think much about how their electronic devices are created. Somewhere in a factory in a faraway land, a worker is toiling to create a cellphone, a laptop, or a television set.
But every once in a while, something dramatic occurs to force this issue into the consciousness of people living in the West. Like in 2010, when there were 10 suicide deaths at Foxconn’s operations in Shenzhen in China’s Guangdong province. Nearly every one of them threw themselves off a building, generating media coverage around the world.
Music on Main and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will livestream the show four times by Charlie Smith on January 21st, 2021 at 9:02 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4
Graveyards and gardens. They each connote radically different sentiments to many people.
A graveyard is a home for the dead, a barren landscape full of tombstones and crosses. A garden signifies life, providing sustenance for living, breathing human beings.
But to Pulitzer Prize–winning musician and previous Kanye West collaborator Caroline Shaw, graveyards
and gardens have been nourishing her soul for many years.
“When I was a little bit younger, I would seek out places to walk that are quiet,” Shaw tells the