After a long 18 months of pivoting and adapting to the restrictions of a global pandemic, DanceHouse recently unveiled its 2021/22 season, returning to the stage with live performance at Vancouver Playhouse and SFU Goldcorp Centre, from October 2021 through May 2022. Audiences will enjoy a season showcasing an array of fan favourites and exciting…
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Kokoro Dance 27th Annual Wreck Beach Butoh
Currently being developed in workshops, Kokoro Dance’s 27th Annual Wreck Beach Butoh performances will take place July 24th and 25th, with set, costumes, and lighting provided by Mother Nature. Each year, during the workshops Kokoro Dance creates a new dance that embraces the sand, water, and air at this beautiful location with its views of…
33rd Dancing on the Edge Festival brings back live dance.
British Columbia’s contemporary dance scene eagerly awaits the return of Dancing on the Edge Festival (DOTE), kicking off July 8th with a live performance by internationally acclaimed Radical System Art/Shay Kuebler at Firehall Theatre. The opening weekend will also include Dumb Instrument Dance, Dreaming of Koi at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, and other performances outdoors…
Dance Centre wraps Discover Dance! Series with Goh Ballet
The Dance Centre’s 2020-2021 Discover Dance! Series comes to a close this week with the internationally-renowned Goh Ballet. Streaming from June 3rd to 17th, the digital June edition of the Discover Dance! Series features members of the Goh Ballet Youth Company and Goh Ballet Academy’s Senior Professional Division. The repertoire features a selection of award-winning…
WANTED…a VIDF Livestream
This year’s Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) livestream festival continues May 27-29 with WANTED by Vancouver’s new dance collective, CAMP. WANTED is a fantastical exploration of the light and dark extremes of humanity, told through the lens of the cowboy. In a performance rich with artifice, aesthetic, exaggeration and comedy, CAMP takes a campy dive into themes of systemic evil. Panic,…
VIDF is LONGING… for you to join this week’s livestream
Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) continues bringing the world of dance to audiences, online. Livestreaming tonight, May 6th until Saturday May 8th, the Festival presents Vidya Kotamraju’s Longing. Using a multi-camera video stream, the up close and personal online performance lets the audience get inside the dance. Kotamraju is a Vancouver-based Bharata Natyam dance artist and…
VIDF is BRIMMING with excitement for Company 605
Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) continues streaming performances online until June 4th. Next up, VIDF presents Company 605’s Brimming from April 29 – May 1. With a multi-camera approach this stream takes viewers inside the dance, created and performed by Company 605 co-director Josh Martin. Brimmingis a new solo investigating the body as a container: a…