Dancing Through History

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Probably two of my favourite things to do are to dance and to travel. For years I’ve worked as a travel writer, spending my time on the road and catching as many dance classes as I could whenever I was home. But, I thought, there had to be a way to include more dance in my professional life. So I did what anyone else would do: I danced across Canada.

Slated for release in spring 2012, the book that came out of my various trips within the country, Dancing Through History: In Search of the Stories that Define Canada, follows me on my adventures as I learn numerous traditional dances I have never done before.

Inuit drum dancing and throat singing, and Greenlandic folk and mask dancing in Nunavut, step dancing in Cape Breton, Ukrainian dancing in Alberta and Saskatchewan; I tried my hand in the circus (and got a behind-the-scenes account of performing in Cirque du Soleil from my friend Melena Rounis), and even entered into a Métis jigging competition. I was honoured to be invited to join in at pow wow competitions in Ontario and Manitoba, and witnessed Gitxsan and Haida dancing in Vancouver and Skidegate, Haida Gwaii.

I hope my book does justice to all the people I met across Canada, to the dance traditions that are being upheld, and to the stories that keep those traditions alive.

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