Dirty Feet

Public Recordings is a Toronto-based performance company rooted in dance. They are touring their work, what we are saying this fall, wrapping up with a presentation at the Ottawa Dance [ … ]

Serge Bennathan founded the Vancouver based company Les Productions Figlio in 2006 after spending 16 years as the artistic director of Toronto’s Dancemakers. This 12-time Dora Award nominee (two-time winner) [ … ]

The last of a series of episodes covering the 2016 edition of the Dark Horse Dance Projects features an interview with the Technical Director and Lighting Designer, Fraser MacKinnon. Allison then [ … ]

This episode features interviews with the remaining choreographers presenting work as a part of the Dark Horse Dance Projects. The first group of guests include choreographer, Charles Cardin-Bourbeau and his [ … ]

In a continuation of the Dark Horse Dance Projects coverage, Allison interviews the artists presenting choreographic work in the showcase. First is solo artist Alexane Couture, followed by choreographer Amber [ … ]

In this first of a series of episodes covering the 2016 edition of the Dark Horse Dance Projects (DHDP), the focus is on the team behind the project. Allison interviews [ … ]

Dirty Feet is back in production on a semi-regular basis. Find out what is in the works for upcoming episodes.

The Dirty Feet team is taking a break. After three years of releasing content weekly, we are taking some time off to arrange our next steps. If you are interested [ … ]

Gerry Morita is the Artistic Director of Mile Zero Dance in Edmonton, Alberta. She tells Allison about her career as a performer, what she has learned along the way, and [ … ]

Stéphanie Bernard returns to the Dirty Feet podcast to talk about her experience working as the rehearsal director for Catherine Laframboise Desjardins’ work It’s all about fictions. Catherine’s choreography will [ … ]

This is the first of a series of episodes covering the 2016 edition of the Bouge d’ici Dance Festival. Liliane Moussa will be presenting her work Finale au sol alongside [ … ]

A follow up from episode #63, Kati visits Studio 303 to speak with Artistic & General Director, Miriam Ginestier and Production & Technical Director, Andrea Joy Rideou. They cover Studio [ … ]

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal is presenting the play Tribes by Nina Raine. Actors Greg and Toni Ellwand sit down with Allison to discuss the production. The [ … ]

Paul Chambers is an accomplished set and lighting designer who works primarily with dance. He worked as the Technical Director at Tangente: Laboratoire de Mouvement Contemporains for five years, and [ … ]

Cette semaine, Kati a rencontré Evelyne Laforest et Rémi Laurin-Ouellette pour un déjeuner et conversation enthousiaste autour de leur spectacle en ouverture a Tangente le 26 novembre. Une soirée en [ … ]

The company Joe Jack et John, directed by Catherine Bourgeois, brings together artists from different disciplines and background to create multidisciplinary, inclusive work. Allison speaks with performer Dorian Nuskind-Oder about [ … ]

Cette semaine, Stéphanie Gaudreau et Daniel Proulx rejoignent Kati pour une conversation autour de l’Association Contact Improvisation et la 33e Jam International de Contact Improvisation de Montreal qui se tiendra [ … ]

Melissa Tuplin is a dance artist as well as the Community Investment Assistant for the Calgary Arts Development. We discuss her involvement with Dancing Monkey Laboratories, her choreographic practice, and [ … ]

Vancouver based independent educator David MacMurray Smith (Fantastic Space Enterprises Studio) guides us through his artistic journey in the professional world of Theatre, Ballet, Opera, Mime and Clown. David generously [ … ]

Montreal’s MainLine Theatre is once again producing the live musical version of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, just in time for Halloween. Allison Burns, who is performing in the [ … ]

L’invitée de cette semaine, Kim-Sanh Chau, vient nous parler de sa pièce Black&Scholes (1973), qui fut présentée à la Maison Théâtre lors du récent festival Quartiers Danses 2015. De ses [ … ]

This week’s guest, Trudy Lee Gayle, is performing in the The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God. The show is a co-production between the Centaur Theatre (Montreal) [ … ]

George Stamos returns to the Dirty Feet Podcast to discuss his new work, Situations, which is opening at Agora de la danse this weekend. The work features 11 performers and [ … ]

David Vaughan is a dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, writer and dance historian. Allison has the pleasure of interviewing him in his New York home about his varied career on and [ … ]

Allison takes a trip to Brooklyn in New York City, NY to visit the Brooklyn Studios for Dance. She discusses her experience there and the philosophy of the organization with [ … ]