From October 21-23, 2022, dance Immersion hosted the Legacy Series: Jazz Dance Symposium. On the first night we watched the extraordinary documentary entitled “Everything Remains Raw: A Historical Perspective on Hip Hop Dance” by E. Moncell Durden. The documentary was incredible and deeply informative on the different types of dances from African American and Latinx […]
Originally posted in the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) “Keepers of the Flame” Newsletter in 2022. Toronto, Ontario has a population of over 2.5 million people and is the most populated city in the country of Canada. Toronto is made up of many diverse expressions that carry dynamic vibrations from around the […]
What is art? Art to me is an escape from reality. A way to express our thoughts, feelings, emotions and experiences. Throughout my artistic journey, I have encountered many situations where people were engaged in conversations on the differences between the qualifications of a trained/ technical dancer versus a self-taught dancer. The debate on whether […]
A continuation of dance Immersion’s Online Bantaba & Check-In with Esie Mensah on her film, Tessel. In this video, Esie answers questions from the audience that we did not have time for at the Bantaba event.
Hello, My name is Zahra Badua and I am the administrative assistant here at dance Immersion – welcome to my blog. Over the next few weeks, I will be hosting a community corner where I will be discussing various topics that affect the African Diaspora. In addition, I will be speaking with prominent people within our […]
On January 27, 2021, dance Immersion’s Curator & Program Director Timea Wharton-Suri spoke on Turnout Radio CIUT 89.5 FM about our programs and services for dancers. Also on the broadcast were Robert Sauvey of Dance Umbrella of Ontario and Amy Hampton of Dance Ontario Association. Hosted by Nicole Inica Hamilton, the program helped highlight the […]
As part of our 2018 Doing Our Thing event, dance Immersion had the opportunity to ask Dr. Seika Boye: How do you balance being both a scholar and an artist? Seika’s In-Depth Reply: “I am not sure that I ever tried to find a balance between these two so often separated categories – scholar […]
By Timea Wharton-Suri At the end of 2020, an exceptional year of challenge and change, I am reflecting on dance Immersion’s year. Shock, fear, hope, strength, questioning, challenging, calling out, calling in, coming together, standing apart: 2020. I am grateful to have been invited to join the dance Immersion team in the fall. This organization, […]
Note: This article was published in a book of essays taken from the CONFIGURATIONS IN MONTRÉAL: PERFORMANCE CURATION AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOUR event, conducted in 2017. Canadian and American performance curators, artists, and scholars gathered in Montréal June 1 and 2, 2017 to share work, develop resources, and build strategies for supporting performance in, for […]