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Vancouver’s Livona Ellis, Gabrielle Martin, and Kevin Fraser join other leading Black artists from across Canada for new collaborative dance film

TESSEL, a co-commission of Fall For Dance North and Harbourfront Centre, is a national show of unity

SCREEN, DANCEGail JohnsonMay 4, 2021dance, screen, film, Ballet BC, Black artists

Vidya Kotamraju transforms choreography for digital realm at Vancouver International Dance Festival

The local bharata natyam dancer reflects on the new reality of livestream, embraces new forms of storytelling

DANCEStir VancouverMay 4, 2021dance, VIDF, bharata natyam, Vidya Kotamraju

For Kokoro Dance, collaboration with artists across genres is a creative wellspring

Partnering with musicians, visual artists, and other dancers has led to wildly inventive works

DANCEStir VancouverMay 3, 2021sponsored content, Kokoro Dance

Vancouver dance artists find new national platform in 60-film CAPSULE video gallery

Ziyian Kwan conceives project with NAC and F-O-R-M to screen free short works from the past pandemic year

DANCE, LIVESTREAM, NEWSJanet SmithMay 3, 2021NAC, National Arts Centre, Dumb Instrument Dance, livestream

Dreamwalker Dance Company takes audiences to the stars as part of ExplorASIAN Festival, to May 30

Dance artist Andrea Nann and shadow-puppet master Annie Katsura Rollins explore family lineage

Gurdeep Pandher seeks to spark happiness and hope through bhangra

The Punjabi-born Yukon resident wants to take his joyful dance-based mission nationwide once the pandemic ends

DANCEGail JohnsonMay 1, 2021dance, bhangra, Gurdeep Pandher, Yukon

Bharata natyam dancer Vidya Kotamraju yearns for connection at the Vancouver International Dance Festival

The local artist’s new work, Longing…, draws from ancient Indian poetry

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 ways to celebrate International Dance Day in Vancouver, April 29

From a wave of new Micro-Commissions to a massive projection at English Bay, dance shows its resilience

LIVESTREAM, DANCEStir VancouverApril 29, 2021DANCEHOUSE, Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

End of an era as dance artist Amber Funk Barton prepares for final chapter of the response

The choreographer-performer appears in the fittingly titled How to Say Goodbye before stepping away from company

DANCEJanet SmithApril 27, 2021the response, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

The Dance Centre celebrates International Dance Day online on April 29

The all-digital program features micro-commissions from an exciting and diverse group of local artists

DANCEStir VancouverApril 26, 2021sponsored content, dance, The Dance Centre

New energy spills out of confinement for Company 605's Josh Martin

At VIDF, Brimming explores the body as a rigid container for an invisible inner world

DANCEJanet SmithApril 23, 2021VIDF, Company 605, Homepage feature

DanceHouse set to light up the night with eight-story video REBO(U)ND, April 29 to May 8

Gravity-defying dance work to be projected on tower by English Bay

DANCEStir VancouverApril 21, 2021Partner Content, DANCEHOUSE

VIDF web series spotlights dance artist Josh Martin, whose solo livestreams April 29 to May 1

Company 605 performer-choreographer explores what contains us, internally and externally

DANCEStir VancouverApril 20, 2021Partner Content, VIDF

Stir Q&A: olive theory's Stefan Nazarevich and Shion Skye Carter talk piano wires, DIY, and hardware synthesizersd

The Vancouver multidisciplinary duo draws from their expertise in music and dance

DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverApril 17, 2021olive theory

Dance review: Ballet BC goes from fluid to fierce in REACHING U's strikingly shot double bill

The troupe shows its versatilty to striking effect in GARDEN and Bedroom Folk

DANCEJanet SmithApril 16, 2021BALLET BC

Co.ERASGA opens the virtual doors to a Spring Studio Salon, April 17 and 18 at 5 pm

Tin Gamboa, Salome Nieto, Jeanette Kotowich, and Sammy Chien make for a diverse, boundary-pushing program

DANCEJanet SmithApril 16, 2021Co.ERASGA, livestream

Dance review: Red Sky Performance—More Than Dance, We Are A Movement mesmerizes

The streaming Digidance film celebrates the Indigenous performance company’s 20th anniversary

DANCEGail JohnsonApril 14, 2021Digidance, Red Sky Performance, Indigenous, Indigenous dance, DanceHouse

Filmmaker Patrycja Kamska delves into dancers’ worlds in new VIDF web series

The artist captures the behind-the-scenes of the Vancouver International Dance Festival

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverApril 13, 2021Partner Content, dance, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Dance meets writing and storytelling in Made in BC conversations, April 15 at 2 pm

Guests include Ziyian Kwan, Justine Chambers, Celestine Aleck, and Peter Dickinson amid the guests

DANCE, READJanet SmithApril 12, 2021Made in BC, MADE IN BC

Kasandra "La China" finds fresh ways to stoke flamenco fire through pandemic

Mozaico Flamenco maven reaches new students and continues pushing the form

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