Dancers of Damelahamid is warming up for the 13th annual Coastal Dance Festival, a celebration of Canadian and global Indigenous stories, song, and dance. Taking place February 25–March 1, 2020 at two locations; the Anvil Centre in New Westminster and at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. The 2020 program includes the festival debut of Tooma Laisa and Leanna Wilson (Inuit), a musician duo…
Tag: Choreography
Dance House opens the season with Spirit.
Next week, DanceHouse, opens its 2019/20 season with the Canadian Premier of Spirit, October 25 & 26, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Presented in partnership with Vancouver-based Indigenous dance company, Dancers of Damelahamid, Spirit is from Australia’s acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre, a leader in the celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance. Choreographed by Bangarra’s Artistic Director Stephen Page and…
Dance House Closes One Season, Announces A New
To close out the 2018-19 season, DanceHouse welcomes the Canadian premiere of MOMIX : Viva MOMIX, on April 12 & 13, at the Vancouver Playhouse. The US company, helmed by acclaimed Artistic Director Moses Pendleton, one of America’s most innovative choreographers and directors, MOMIX is revered for its ability to conjure a surreal world using props, light,…
DanceHouse presents Compagnie Marie Chouinard
This Friday and Saturday, DanceHouse welcomes the Vancouver premiere of Montreal–based Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights to the stage. In honour of the 500th anniversary of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, the acclaimed choreographer Marie Chouinard creates a living canvas, embodying Bosch’s most infamous masterpiece. Accompanied by Louis Dufort’s original score and…
DanceHouse opens with Borderline
DanceHouse is launching their 2018/19 season with the Canadian premiere of France’s Company Wang Ramirez work, Borderline, playing October 26 and 27, 2018 at 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Performed to layered rhythms and spoken word by percussionist, composer LACRYMOBOY (Jean-Philippe Barrios), along with choreographic duo Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang combining hip hop and contemporary dance with the movement of martial arts…
TUTS takes us to 42nd Street
The 2018 season of Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is now open with 42nd Street alternating nights at Malkin Bowl, in Stanley Park with Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Directed by Robert McQueen, 42nd Street is a show within a show jukebox musical that takes us back to 1930s Broadway. A familiar selection of standards and showtunes…
Dancing on the Edge 30th Anniversary opens July 5, 2018
Canada’s longest running festival of contemporary dance, Dancing on the Edge Festival is coming to Vancouver venues July 5 -14, 2018. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, Dancing on the Edge Festival’s longevity serves as a powerful reminder of the contributions of dance, to our past and future of the Arts in the community. Building on its 30 years of…