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.…
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July 4 2022 Culture On stage: modern Bharatanatyam
Indian Canadian dancer and choreographer Sujit Vaidya explores queerness, sensuality, and movement in his performance of Off Centre at Performance Works on July 12, as part of the Indian Summer …
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April 25 2022 Culture Dance and poetry meet to narrate the internment and dispossession of Japanese-Canadians
Kunji Mark Ikeda uses family stories and artistic expression to navigate challenging life experiences in Sansei: The Storyteller at the Chan Centre Apr. 28–29. The show follows Ikeda as he …
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March 21 2022 Culture Kidd Pivot’s Revisor - Adapting a Russian farce on power and corruption
A low-level clerk arrives at a remote government complex where all the officials mistake him as a high-ranking inspector. Since they all have secrets that they fear being exposed, they do everything…