#LoveVancouver Dance Bubbles bring movement to the downtown core
The new, free light and art installation features eight local performers
There’s a new free art exhibition to take in downtown. Photo by Jeanette Kotowich.
SEVERAL VANCOUVER DANCERS are back in the spotlight in a new way. #LoveVancouver Dance Bubbles is a COVID-19-friendly outdoor art and light exhibition running throughout March, with projected and live, physically distanced performances.
Tourism Vancouver has launched the installation in partnership with the Downtown BIA, Robson BIA, and the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel.
Vancouver’s Small Stage collaborated with the organizations to bring the bubbles to life with movement. Perhaps best known for its Dances for a Small Stage platform, Small Stage is a dance-production and -creation company that offers creative support for B.C. dance artists.
The Dance Bubbles artists include Ashley Rhianne, who studies Egyptian Oriental dance; Chengxin Wei, a Ballet BC alum who cofounded Moving Dragon, a contemporary dance company focusing on a fusion of Eastern and Western styles; Ballet BC member Livona Ellis, who’s on the faculty at Arts Umbrella; Jennifer Aoki, co-founder of the Body Orchestra collective; flamenco artist Kasandra La China; Ikue Ueno, who specializes in waacking, voguing, hip hop, house, and other styles; choreographer Claire French, co-artistic director of Restless Productions; and Jeanette Kotowich, an independent dance artist and choreographer of Cree Métis and European ancestry.
You can find the installations alight Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 5 pm to 9pm PST. (Live dancers are at the Friday evening events only.)
Locations are as follows: Thursdays: at Lot 19, 855 W Hastings Street (between West Hastings and West Cordova at the foot of Hornby ; Fridays at Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Courtyard, 1000 Burrard Street; and Saturdays at the Bute and Alberni pop-up plaza.
It’s all about sharing some happiness after a long, dark, lonely winter.
“In support of our talented arts and culture partners, we’re creating a safe and physically distanced outdoor art and light experience that we hope will bring smiles to local residents and create another reason for people to get out and enjoy what downtown Vancouver has to offer,” Tourism Vancouver president and CEO Royce Chwin said in a release.
For more information, visit Tourism Vancouver.
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