The Firehall Arts Centre is Fujiwara Dance Inventions’ dance-theatre production, Eunoia to the stage from Wednesday, May 8 to Saturday, May 11. Adapted from Christian Bök’s award-winning book of poetry, Eunoia, a conceptual book written in the form of a lipogram where each of its five chapters is constrained to the use of one vowel….
Tag: Choreography
Cobalt & Crone, an Evening of New Works from Dumb Instrument Dance
Dumb Instrument Dance presents Cobalt & Crone a presentation of new solo works, September 20-24 and September 27-October 1. Audiences will be treated to a full-evening of new solo works, choreographed and performed by Ziyian Kwan and Shion Skye Carter, with original music by Stefan Nazarevih and Jo Hirabayashi.In a nod to the unorthodox, the…
Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House welcomes everyone September 16th
September 16th, the annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House is throwing open the doors and shining a light on dance. From bellydance and Bollywood to contemporary, flamenco, and Latin, the Open House is a chance to sample a wide range of dance styles in an afternoon of open classes and workshops. Participating companies and artists…
DanceHouse 2021/22 Season Returns to the Stage
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…
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…
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…