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Many of DCD's print, DVD and web-based publications have been used in classroom settings. The descriptions below provide examples of how DCD products have been used as educational resources. If you wish to learn more about these publications click on their title. | |
| Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories Used by post-secondary dance programs in history and theory classes.
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| Encyclopedia of Theatre Dance in Canada (softcover) Used by secondary and post-secondary dance programs as a reference tool and in conjunction with DCD's Canadian Dance Family Tree Project / Le projet de généalogie de la danse canadienne.
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| Form Without Formula: A Concise Guide to the Choreographic Process Used internationally by secondary and post-secondary dance programs in composition classes. |
| Express Dance: Educators' Resource for Teaching Dance, Grades 4 to 12 Used by elementary and secondary school teachers to assist non-dancers in devising tools for creating movement. For more information, click here. |
| Revealing Dance Used by post-secondary dance programs in dance writing courses. |
| Ryman's Dictionary of Classical Ballet Terms: Cecchetti Used internationally by Cecchetti teachers to help students learn the Cecchetti terminology. |
| Betty Oliphant: The Artistry of Teaching Used internationally in studios, secondary and post-secondary dance programs to teach ballet. |
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| DanceForms 1.0 Software for Visualizing and Chronicling Choreography: A Practical Guide Used internationally by post-secondary dance programs to record and create choreography. Software published by Credo Interactive. |
Highly successful on VHS, this series has been relaunched on DVD and includes bonus features such as photo galleries, interviews with director Moze Mossanen, and an electronic teachers’ guide. If you would like to learn more CLICK HERE.
The Dancemakers series is the first comprehensive suite of programs featuring six innovative Canadian choreographers: David Earle, Danny Grossman, Christopher House, James Kudelka, Ginette Laurin and Constantin Patsalas. Each half-hour program features a complete choreographic work plus rehearsal scenes and concise commentary about the choreographer’s motivations and working method.
Originally broadcast on CBC Television and TVOntario, this outstanding series on Canadian contemporary dance was written, directed and produced in 1986 by Moze Mossanen. Each program is hosted by Veronica Tennant and showcases the talented dancers of some of Canada’s leading dance companies including The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto Dance Theatre, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Danny Grossman Dance Company and O Vertigo Danse. The dance works recorded in the series are now considered Canadian choreographic masterworks.
More than just fostering an appreciation for dance, this series promotes insights into the creative process and lays the groundwork for discussions centred on the following topics: the forms and elements of dance; the principles of composition; the potential problems of interpretation.
This component of the DCD web site offers an in-depth view of some of Canada's most important dance artists. Each exhibition contains a large assortment of images, biographical text, multimedia and memorabilia. All part of Dance Collection Danse's continuing effort to digitize its archives, exhibitions offer fascinating glimpses of Canadian dance history. This is an on-going project and exhibits will continue to be added – so be sure to visit again and again.
This component of the DCD web site offers images, brief biographies and content descriptions for dance artist's portfolios within the Dance Collection Danse archives. Providing fascinating glimpses of Canadian dance history, these pages also serve as finding aids for dance researchers. Pages in History is an on-going project and artist's portfolios will continue to be added – so, like our Encore! Encore! exhibitions, be sure to visit again.
The hope is to illuminate something about the person, their craft, the field, and to provide a peek into what inspires those uncovering and rediscovering our dance pasts. The interview is accompanied by a photo, giving a face to the names seen in the bylines. Often hunkered down in front of computer screens, surrounded by the papers, photos and ephemera that, hopefully, hold the answers to their questions, or sitting in the darkness at a performance, historians and writers are an anonymous force buried beneath their writing. Here is your chance to meet them.
Choreographic Dialogues initiator Carol Anderson was interested in creating opportunities for choreographers to speak about their work, and for audiences to connect with them. The motivation, craft, and art of choreography often seem mysterious, and it can be both fascinating and illuminating to learn about the process in a creator's own words. There are broad themes within the series Anderson was curious to know how artists of diverse background address issues of tradition and contemporaneity, and in how choreographers of widely differing aesthetic address creative process. She was also interested in discussion about conceiving and creating work for film, and about making dance for non-traditional venues with both artistic and community-minded aspirations and values.
Dance Collection Danse celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy with a virtual exhibition about the musical revue “Meet the Navy”. Initiated in 1943, the purpose of the show was to entertain service personnel in all of Canada’s armed forces while also promoting recruitment efforts and maintaining public morale and goodwill.
The live exhibit Dancing Through Time: Toronto's Dance History 1900-1980 explored the development of the city's dance scene from influential touring artists to vaudevillians to the ballet and modern dance booms to the diversity of dance forms present in the city. The exhibit featured costumes, photographs, playbills, souvenir programs, posters, designs, and more. This on-line resource offers a glimpse of the exhibit and its related events.
CANADIAN DANCE FAMILY TREE PROJECT
This project makes use of the Encyclopedia of Theatre Dance in Canada/Encyclopédie de la Danse Théâtrale au Canada, which provides the students with a cross section of the history of theatre dance in Canada, dating from 1850 to the present. "Theatre dance" is the phrase used to describe dance that is performed by professional dancers in a theatrical setting, for example, on a stage. The Encyclopedia offers over 250 entries on dancers, choreographers, companies, significant choreographic works, and a list of music compositions created for dance. This bilingual book is the only Canadian dance reference book of its kind.
Ce projet recourt à l'Encyclopédie de la Danse Théâtrale au Canada/ Encyclopedia of Theatre Dance in Canada, ouvrage qui fournit une coupe transversale de l'histoire de la danse théâtrale au Canada, de 1850 à aujourd'hui. Le terme « danse théâtrale » désigne la danse exécutée par des interprètes professionnels dans un contexte théâtral, par exemple, sur une scène. L'encyclopédie offre plus de 250 articles sur des interprètes, des chorégraphes, des compagnies, des oeuvres chorégraphiques notoires, ainsi qu'une liste de compositions musicales créées pour la danse. Ce livre bilingue est une référence tout à fait unique sur la danse canadienne.
BALLETS RUSSES CELEBRATES 100 YEARS
May 19, 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of the debut performance of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Dance Collection Danse is celebrated this occasion with a gallery of images from our archives that relate to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the subsequent Ballets Russes companies that followed with their own debuts in the 1930s.
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