Four free and low-cost shows take place at 24th annual Vancouver International Dance Festival
Audiences can check out Modus Operandi, Ferenc Fehér, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, and VIDF Jazz Jams from February 25 to March 9
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Ferenc Fehér and Zoltán Pál in DISCO BOYS. Photo by Molnar Miklos
As part of this year’s Vancouver International Dance Festival, which takes place from February 25 to March 9 at venues around the city, four free and low-cost shows are available to watch.
On February 25 and March 3 at 2 pm and 3 pm, Vancouver-based company Modus Operandi will share excerpts of new creations and repertoire in development. The performance in the open Woodwards Atrium is free to all audiences. Modus Operandi was founded in 2007 and offers post-secondary contemporary dance training, with a mission to nurture unique emergent voices by investing in a practice-based curriculum that welcomes all possible ways to dance.
Two shows hosted in the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre’s Exhibition Hall are available at three pricing points: free for those who have a ticket to the Roundhouse show at 6:30 pm; by donation at the door; or a $10 online ticket.
New Skin. Photo by Michael Slobodian
The first of these pricing-scaled shows is DISCO BOYS, showing from February 28 to March 2 at 5:30 pm. Choreographed by Hungary’s Ferenc Fehér, DISCO BOYS is a duet performed by Fehér and Zoltán Pál. Two guys from the future are back from Planet PZ to reminisce about the old days: disco, partying, flirting, success. The ridiculous buffoons wallow in the haze of a borrowed smoke machine on the floor of a small room they think is the stage of the world. They sing, spin, and push, giving everything until exhaustion.
The second show is autoeroticism-inspired dark lullaby New Skin from March 6 to 9 at 5:30 pm, choreographed by Vancouver’s Jennifer McLeish-Lewis. This full-length solo performed by James-Amzin Nahirnick is a roller coaster of song, dance, and theatre. Audiences will peek into the boudoir and be serenaded by a crooner so seductive, he can’t keep his hands off himself.
A fourth show is by donation at the door: VIDF Jazz Jams at KW Production Studio, from February 28 to March 2 and Mar 6 to 9 at 10 pm. Join in for a casual evening of improvised dance with leading Vancouver musicians hosted by guitarist-composer Tony Wilson, who has been a fixture on the West Coast jazz and free-improv scene for decades.
More details are at VIDF.
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Modus Operandi performing a work by Nicolas Ventura in 2023. Photo by David Raymond