Get your first sneak peek at Season 2 of The Move

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We've basically been working downstairs from a pop-up dance studio all week, and that's way more awesome than it might sound. For one thing, none of the folks practicing upstairs are cloggers, and for another, when the sprawling 10th floor studio at CBC Toronto gets tricked out with bonkers lighting rigs — enough spotlights that we should really be recreating Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" video every lunch break — it can only mean one thing: a new season of The Move is on its way!

Remember The Move?

It's just an incredibly stylish series of short docs featuring the country's top dancers — folks who bear their souls and dance their talented butts off in every episode. (An incredibly stylish web series that's now up for two Canadian Screen Awards, just saying.)

And this is your first sneak peek at Season 2!

The Move's (CSA-nominated!) director, Lucius Dechausay, has been working with dancers including Nico Archambault, Scott Fordham, Esie Mensah, Sara Porter and Santee Smith on new episodes, and he shared a few special moments from the set.

Nico Archambault

"Watching Nico dance is hypnotic. He choreographed a piece specifically for us, which juxtaposed fluid movements and contemplative pauses with sharp athleticism. It was truly beautiful."

Scott Fordham

"Scott brought two dancers with him. His cardio-forward style of choreography is fun and upbeat but extremely hard to pull off...even for himself. This set had him sweating."

Santee Smith

"Santee Smith, who will become the next chancellor at McMaster University, somehow made this large, dark studio feel like the most intimate performance space. She blessed us with an excerpt from her most recent choreography 'Blood Tides,' and then taught us how to do [a move called] the 'woman's shuffle.'"

Esie Mensah

"I sat and chatted to Esie while she prepared for her dance. Her quiet contemplations left me completely unprepared for the explosive beast that was about to be unleashed. She moves with the strength of her ancestors, and you could feel them pushing her further with each beat."

Sara Porter

"Sara introduced me to a concept of dance I didn't know much about: improvisation. After a lovely conversation around motherhood, soul-searching and dancing after 40, she took us through an exercise in improvised dance — moving her body exactly where it needed to go in that moment."

Watch for the series this spring! (Update: Season 2 is now streaming on CBC Gem. Watch it here.)

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Why is the Remai Modern a must-see? - Saskatoon keeps landing on lists of the world's top travel destinations, and this modern art gallery is the No. 1 attraction. And since the Remai also happens to be one of Zachari Logan's favourite places to see art anywhere, we asked the Toontown native to give us a tour. (More museum guides to come! Where in Canada should we go next?)

This playlist is the Schitt - If you asked Alexis Rose to name her all-time favourite love songs, she'd probably rattle off the tracklisting to Tiësto's Greatest Hits before telling you about this one time she was the coke godmother of Rio, but only because Lindsay Lohan lost her in a bet to a druglord, who was actually, like, super sweet, and inciting a mob war was just the quickest way of chartering a jet home in time for prom. Sadly, that is not what this video is about. But we did talk to Annie Murphy! (She plays Alexis on Schitt's Creek.) And she made us a playlist of her top five love songs.

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Hilary Jane (@hilaryjanetattoos) - We met Hilary Jane in Montreal for the latest episode of Art Hurts, but this artist is known for more than her (incredible) tattoos. Follow her to see more gorgeous flash art like this, plus her paintings and photography and embroidery work, too.

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