The Banff Centre: Communications

Mediacaster: “Canada’s national interactive media association is joining a chorus of commentators, both from industry, government and the cultural sector, to urge the federal government to reconsider… [the] recent decision to discontinue production funds, trade support and media industry education initiatives…. The National Training Schools Program also benefited educational institutions featuring Interactive Media as part of their curricula, including the Banff Centre for the Arts….”

Calgary Herald: “The Banff Centre’s current exhibition delved into its own archives for inspiration. The result was more than even the curators could have expected.”

National Post: “Two choreographers… bookended the impressive four-part program presented Aug. 5 to 9… by participants in the famed Alberta cultural institution’s freshly revamped summer dance program… Whatever was involved during the course of the program’s five weeks culminated in performances that, like many past Banff summer dance festival shows, reverberated with the expansive optimism of youthful talent. Mozart would have approved of that.”

The Calgary Sun: “It just doesn’t get any better than a weekend in the mountains, complete with fabulous food and superb entertainment. Such are the trappings of the annual must-attend Banff Midsummer Ball Weekend supporting the world renowned Banff Centre, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. And the recent 29th ball weekend was one for the record books, raising an astounding $700,000 for artist scholarships!”

Calgary Herald: “In his newest dance work, Toronto-based dancer and choreographer Robert Glumbek, recipient of the 2008 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award, says he wanted to create an ‘atmosphere of suspense — because I see that as how we’re living right now.’”

Calgary Herald: “Lindsay Fischer wants to bring new movement to the way dance is taught at the Banff Centre. And a shift in philosophy. Accordingly, the 47-year-old Fischer, a former principal dancer with the Dutch National Ballet and New York City Ballet and presently artistic director of YOU dance, a collaboration between the National Ballet and its school, has already marked his first months as the new director of the Centre’s Professional Dance Program with a few fundamental changes.”

Ottawa Citizen: “At about 300, the audience was smaller than might have been expected…. The performance was thoroughly pleasing.”