As DanceHouse prepares to close out its current season, it has announced its 2025/2026 season line up featuring five presentations.
The final production of the 2024/2025 season is the BC premiere of Peeping Tom’s theatrical dream world Diptych: The missing door and The lost room, at the Vancouver Playhouse April 24-26, 2025. Created by co-founders Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, the paired works of Diptych introduce audiences to a collection of odd and archetypal individuals in seemingly real and stable environments – a banal hallway and a ship’s cabin – only to slide into a mysterious and macabre labyrinth that defies all logic of time and space.
“We are delighted to introduce Vancouver audiences to the multiple-award-winning Belgian dance theatre company, Peeping Tom,” says Jim Smith, Artistic and Executive Director of DanceHouse. “Peeping Tom takes on a surreal and highly cinematic storytelling approach, featuring extraordinary physicality and pushing the limits of movement with astonishing performances. Diptych deftly balances darkness with moments of absurd humour as the company delves into psychological depths to explore relationships, subconscious fears, and the nature of reality itself.”
As Diptych unfolds, eight talented performers navigate a series of increasingly bizarre scenarios, where coherence fractures and reality bends. Elements of film noir and dark comedy, paired with an all-enveloping soundscape and foley effects, immerse audiences in a world of shifting perceptions where space and time remain in constant flux. Set changes occur in full view, seamlessly becoming part of the performance, evoking the feel of live film editing and heightening the work’s eerie, otherworldly quality. With its hypnotic storytelling and jaw-dropping athleticism, Diptych dissolves the boundary between theatre and dance.
DanceHouse welcomes Peeping Tom’s Diptych: The missing door and The lost room April 24-26 at Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street, with a Pre-show Talk at 7:15pm ahead of each performance in the Upper Lobby, and a Post-show Social following Friday’s performance in the Salon.
Before this season wraps DanceHouse 2025/2026 Season subscriptions go on sale April 22, 2025 for a season featuring five incredible presentations from Canada and around the world that run the gamut of the human experience from despair to joy, rebellion to unity.
The 2025/2026 season incudes;
Amour, acide et noix (Love, Acid and Nuts) – Daniel Léveillé (Montreal)
October 24 & 25, 2025 @ 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)
Birdy – Hung Dance (Taiwan)
Presented with Asian-Canadian Special Events Association
November 28 & 29, 2025 @ 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)
Paradisum – Recirquel (Hungary)
Co-presented with The Cultch
January 21-24, 2026 @ 8pm
January 24, 2026 @ 2pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – Ex Machina & Côté Danse (Quebec City & Toronto)
Presented with Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
March 19-21, 2026 @ 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)
Manifesto – Stephanie Lake Company (Australia)
Co-presented with Vancouver New Music
April 16-18, 2026 @ 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)
Visit dancehouse.ca for tickets and information about the season closing Peeping Tom’s Diptych: The missing door and The lost room and for new season subscription renewals on April 22