Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers

Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers
General information
NameWinnipeg's Contemporary Dancers
Year founded1964
FoundersRachel Browne
Principal venueRachel Browne Theatre
Websitewinnipegscontemporarydancers.ca
Artistic staff
Artistic DirectorJolene Bailie

Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers is Canada's oldest continuously running modern dance company.[1][2] Founded in 1964 as Contemporary Dancers Inc., it has presented original works of this new art form in thousands of theatres, school and public places in Winnipeg[3] as well across Canada, the United States and Mexico. In circa 1968, the WCD toured as far north as Inuvik and performed in conjunction with the Delta Drummers and Dancers in one of those communities.[4][5]

The company also creates avant-garde and expressionistic dance-theatre.

  1. ^ Holmberg, Arthur; Solorzano, Carlos (2014). World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 2: The Americas. Vol. 2. Routledge. p. 640. ISBN 1136118365.
  2. ^ Crabbe, Michael; Botaitis, James (3 April 2015). "Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers". Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  3. ^ Scene Staff (11 June 2012), Remembering Rachel Browne, founder of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 1 February 2016
  4. ^ GetWellSoonBitchez (2008-10-05). Delta Drummers and Dancers of Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik and Aklavik, NT. Retrieved 2024-06-30 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ Anderson, Carol (1999). Rachel Browne : dancing toward the light. Internet Archive. [Winnipeg] : J. Gordon Shillingford. ISBN 978-1-896239-53-8.