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We are all of us, beings, in a constant state of continual change. We humans are a composition of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen.
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Ilter Ibrahimof is the cofounder and artistic director of Toronto’s Fall for Dance North festival. Held annually since 2014, FFDN is a Canadian offshoot of the beloved New York City Center series. A producer and booking agent for more than fifteen years, Ibrahimof grew up in Istanbul and studied dance, theatre, and arts management at Emerson College in Boston before moving to New York. There he founded, in 2004, and ran, until 2020, his own dance booking agency. Sunny Artist Management represented the American tours of European artists and entities such as Nacho Duato, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Compagnie Käfig, and classical Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa. Ibrahimof has created original evenings with ballet principals Wendy Whelan, James Whiteside, and Daniil Simkin in New York, and has been a guest curator for Atlanta’s Off the Edge contemporary dance festival. Moving from New York to Montreal and then to Toronto in 2015, Ibrahimof has turned FFDN into one of Canada’s largest dance festivals. Fjord Review spoke to him by telephone. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
We are all of us, beings, in a constant state of continual change. We humans are a composition of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen.
Continue ReadingThe title of Catherine Tharin’s latest production, “In the Wake of Yes,” is a reference to “Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy,” an inner monologue on womanhood and sexuality, from James Joyce’s Ulysses. Tharin matches the tone of this work as she picks up on an exuberant string of “yeses” from that text. Her witty series of dances explores romance and its complications. At the center of the show is a film by Lois Robertson that lifts the dancers out of the tiny East Village stage and transports them (and us) to scenes of contemporary New York City. Tharin, who danced with the...
Continue ReadingThrough its newly opened program, “Other Dances,” Dutch National Ballet kicks off the summer with a slate of lighthearted fare that varies in precise approach but altogether evokes an effervescent mood.
Continue ReadingTaking the historian’s long view, the message within “Last and First Men,” that “the whole duration of humanity, its evolution, and many successive species, is but a flash in the lifetime of the cosmos,” is, to me, ultimately a comfort.
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