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Randy Glynn

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This weekend, Halifax’s Live Art Dance kicks off its 2019-2020 season with Brazil-based  Focus Cia de Dança performing  Ímpar , a mesmerizing works that uses seven bodies across a stage-turned-playground to tell a story both absurd and magical. Recently we spoke with LAD’s Artistic Director Randy Glynn about the production and about his own passion for his profession. What is your own personal/professional background? I am from Ottawa, but started my professional dance career in Halifax in 1976 while studying music and English at Dal. Back then, I helped form and manage the Halifax Dance Co-op Dance company with Sara Shelton Man as Artistic Director. In 1977, I moved to Toronto and was asked to join the Danny Grossman Dance Company. I danced and toured the world with them for 10 years. In 1987, I started my own dance company the Randy Glynn Dance Project which toured and performed for 10 years. Since then I have been involved in a variety of eclectic dance and circus ...

Broken Man on a Halifax Pier

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Lesley Choyce’s latest work, Broken Man on a Halifax Pier, is the tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers. Recently we spoke with the prolific Nova Scotian author about the book. When and why did you want to be a writer? When I was eight, I wrote a story about a groundhog. I was in love with my teacher at the time who was a beautiful young woman who had come in runner-up as an apple-blossom beauty queen. I was only eight, mind you, so I had low expectations that things would develop romantically. Nonetheless, Miss Smith said she loved my story about the groundhog and I knew right away that I should be a writer. Are they the same reasons you do it today? Well, no. Not really. I would reckon Miss Smith now to be well over ninety and that ship has sailed as they say. How have your grown as a writer over that time? I’ve moved on from primarily writing about groundhogs and other wild furry animals with poor eyesight.   I want to write abo...