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Kicking off the Bates Dance Festival’s 25th anniversary season, Victor Quijada’s Montreal-based Rubberbandance Group (RBDG) performs an evening of new works at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 14, in Schaeffer ...

In the early-’90s, before pseudo-hip hop enveloped dance studios and pop music stages, and before the b-boy renaissance later that decade, there was old-school West Coast freestyle. Choreographer ...

What would the offspring of ballet and breakdancing look like? Victor Quijada, co-director of Rubberbandance Group with Anne Plamondon, started searching for the answer in 2002, when he left ...

Has Victor Quijada, the dancer- choreographer who heads up the Montreal-based Rubberbandance Group with the equally flexible Anne Plamondon, been brushing up on his E.M. Forster? Switch a pronoun, and ...

It's been more than five years now since Victor Quijada, founder and artistic director of RUBBERBANDance Group, has performed with the company. But he didn't stop because he was injured or too old to ...

RUBBERBANDance Group choreographer Victor Quijada has truly walked between the worlds. After growing up in the hip-hop culture on the streets of Los Angeles (which gave him the nickname Rubberband in ...

When he was growing up in East Los Angeles, Victor Quijada spent his downtime in spontaneous sidewalk circles of hip-hop dance. There, slick footwork was more than an art or sport; rather, hip-hop was ...

Growing up as a b-boy on the streets of Los Angeles, Victor Quijada never thought of hip-hop as an art form. “That’s just what we were, we were hip-hoppers,” he says. “It wasn’t something we went to ...

When he founded RUBBERBANDance Group in 2002, Victor Quijada was on a mission: to merge his modern dance and ballet training with the hip hop that was his first love growing up in L.A. He describes ...

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