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,…
Tag: VIDF
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…
Picks of the Week – March 17, 2021
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! May the luck of the Irish be upon you and us all for this 17th of March and throughout the week with these entertaining picks Masterpiece: Friday, the much buzzed about Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition opens at Vancouver Convention Centre, running until June 11th, the initial run of ticket…
Picks of the Week – March 10, 2021
As we reach the first anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, let’s take a look what has managed to adapt and thrive to keep us entertained. Global: Joining in a global event in honour of the anniversary of the pandemic, The Cultch will host a free presentation of the the award-winning play White…
Picks of the Week – March 3, 2021
Can you believe it’s March already?! Signs of spring are all around, and let’s see what the season is bringing to keep us entertained this week Dine: It’s the last week to check out Dine Out Vancouver Festival before it wraps up on March 7th, you’re sure to find sometime to whet your appetite from the over 330 restaurants (most…
Vancouver International Dance Festival celebrates its 21st.
The Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) is returning for its 21st season from March 4 to June 19, 2021. As the pandemic restrictions continue, this year will be a virtual festival with 18 livestreamed contemporary dance performances. This year, VIDF is providing residencies and technical support for artists to enhance their choreography with multiple cameras…