Roar hard, fly high: Dancing into the Year of the Dragon
Photo by Jiratchaya Piamkulvanic
With the 2024 Lunar New Year coming up, the Vancouver Chinese Lion & Dragon Dance Association is preparing to bring the Chinese community prosperity and luck …
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January 8 2024 Culture Hold On Let Go takes centre stage this January, with contemporary performers tackling issues of technology in a unique and creative way
“This process is like this moving boat; there are pockets of space where we can bring our own stories forward and allow for the synergizing of our own beliefs and stories into the room,” said …
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July 10 2023 Culture Dancing on the Edge – Building connection through dance, artistry and culture
In its 35th year and working on building back after the pandemic, the Dancing on the Edge Festival returns with all its creativity, collaboration and innovative choreography from July 6 to July 15. …
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May 8 2023 Culture Aerosia, a feat of vertical dance performance
Artistic director Julia Taffe’s Vancouver-based Aeriosa Dance Society merges elements of vertical dance and rock climbing in the theatrical work New Artists and Approaches in Vertical Dance, part…
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March 20 2023 Culture Dancers of Damelahamid - Family, connection, artistry and tradition
Coming full circle from 2003 to 2023, the Dancers of Damelahamid are back at The Dance Centre on March 30th. Their performance of Spirit and Tradition, a sizeable production for family audiences, …
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February 20 2023 Culture Broken Chord - Dance as history, identity, trauma and healing across borders
From Soweto and Johannesburg and through Belgium, France, Spain, London, Germany, Austria and Hungary, choreographer Gregory Maqoma is bringing Broken Chord to the Vancouver public.
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February 6 2023 Culture Matriarchs Uprising Festival
The 5th edition of Matriarchs Uprising Festival features new contemporary Indigenous dance works from Atamira Dance Company, O.Dela Arts + Pepper’s Ghost Media Collective, Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre, …
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January 23 2023 Culture Arabic and Persian sounds blend in jazz setting
A deep connection to the past requires the unique group sound and the raw emotion of the solo performance. The Marrow, a quartet that melds the styles of Persian and Arabic music with Western Jazz, …
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January 9 2023 Culture Source Amnesia - A look at faulty memory, fake news, and truth vs. fiction
Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY presents the world premiere of Source Amnesia, an exploration of false memory and the fragility of truth, in which five Vancouver-based contemporary dance artists …
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September 19 2022 Culture Kathak: a mix of story-telling and dance
Search for the beauty within an unshaped space, says Usha Upta when she brings Khoj – A Contemporary Kathak Dance Extravaganza to The Firehall from Wednesday, Sept. 21 to Saturday, Sept.…