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Morning coffee queue at The Banff Centre’s Maclab Bistro, and the line-up consists of the usual suspects: a poet with a post-yoga glow, a sculptor in a postparty funk, and a conference suit with a pre-caffeine twitch. At the front of the line, two girls in knee-high boots, sequinned silver skirts, and massive, winged fur coats wait for their skim lattes. I sneak a glance at the taller one – her brown hair teased into an electrified madness, one glittering oversized eyelash peeling away from her face. The girls/women/amazons look …
It’s easy to spot Jeff Melanson on campus. He’s the tall guy with the big smile, who never forgets your name once you’ve been introduced, and who is eager to hear about your connection to the Centre.
“I wouldn’t be here tonight if I hadn’t gone to Banff, if funding for places like Banff didn’t exist.”
Of her off-Broadway premiere, The Huffington Post critic in New York commented, “What a treat. It’s unvarnished, but paired with the right music and Gilbertson’s marvelous vocals, it’s catchy and memorable and funny and true.”
“Brian [Macdonald] saw something in me that I knew I had,” she recalls. “He guided me in finding my voice, and I started to approach dance almost as if I were an actress.”
On the eve of her departure as president of The Banff Centre, Mary Hofstetter sat down to talk with Inspired.
“There are a lot of people who love science, who track a career in science but have a creative side that never gets realized,” says Ingram, chair of the program.
With this fall’s publication of A Good Man, Saskatoon writer Guy Vanderhaeghe completes a literary hat trick.
I will always love Loulou the acrobat.
