In this issue: Rachel Silver Maddock interviews Deanna Peters, Artistic Director of Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) offering a close view of a festival shaped by an artist-led ethos and championing underrepresented dance forms.
Tessa Perkins Deneault’s profile of Eric Cheung follows a multidisciplinary artist committed to exploration and movement as a site of curiosity. In November 2025 Cheung premiered his first full-length work, Contra, presented through The Dance Centre’s Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award.
