Graduate students Shannon Roberts, Nancy Latoszewski Greyeyes and Ilse Gudiño, candidates in York’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in choreography and dance dramaturgy, premiere new choreographies for ensembles in Temenos. The show, performed by professional and pre-professional dancers, runs Feb. 15 to 17 in the Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre at the Keele campus. Shannon Roberts. […]
Faculty of Fine Arts Professor Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt has been named Dance Historian of the Month for August 2011 by Dance Collection Danse (DCD), Canada’s national dance archives. This monthly series features interviews with Canada’s notable dance historians, with the goal of illuminating aspects of the person, their craft and the field, and to provide […]
Dance Professor Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt (BA Spec. Hons. ’78, MFA ’86), York’s associate vice-president, academic learning initiatives, has published a major new work in the annals of Canadian dance. Her book, The Ballet Class: A History of Canada’s National Ballet School, 1959-2009, traces the conception and growth of the National Ballet School (NBS), one of the […]