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Dance review: Persian poetry drives intense cross-cultural Chutzpah Festival offering

Alexis Fletcher and Arash Khakpour make a compelling duo, as All my being is a dark verse builds an atmospheric visual world

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022Chutpah Festival, Alexis Fletcher, Arash Khakpour

Throe brings human frailty and struggle to Corporeal Imago’s atmospheric new aerial-dance hybrid

Cirque-trained, Vancouver-based Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes strive to create something deeper than spectacle

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022circus, Corporeal Imageo, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Homepage feature

Dance review: Alexander Ekman's Play proves to be a gorgeous delight

Created for the Paris Opera Ballet, the work is having its Canadian streaming premiere

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 9, 2022DanceHouse, Digidance, Paris Opera Ballet, ballet, dance, Homepage feature

Dance review: Hourglass is a poignant exploration of passing time

Wooden chairs, breathtaking honesty, and Philip Glass’s 20 Piano Études

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 7, 2022Chutzpah Festival, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, Leslie Dala

Dance review: Striking imagery as Shion Skye Carter crafts a reverie through paper and ink

Program features innovative work from the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award-winner, as well as soloist Juolin Lee

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 7, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Kinesis Dance somatheatro's Noxious, November 16 to 19

New dance work explores pollution of both Planet Earth and the mind

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 6, 2022Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Dance review: Throbbing beats, surging sexuality, and time stands still at Ballet BC's edgy OVERTURE/S season opener

Buzzy show wires directly into the European contemporary-dance vanguard

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 5, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Alexis Fletcher and Arash Khakpour find an intimate new dance language at the Chutzpah! Festival

Inspired by Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, their All my being is a dark verse resonates amid women’s calls for freedom in Iran

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 4, 2022Chutzpah Festival, Alexis Fletcher, Arash Khakpour

Hourglass comes to fruition with a full journey through Philip Glass's Piano Études, at the Chutzpah! Festival November 5 and 6

Leslie Dala is at the keyboard while eight dancers take the stage

FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRING, DANCEJanet SmithNovember 2, 2022Chutzpah Festival, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance

Dance artist Shion Skye Carter reconnects with calligraphy and her Japanese culture in Residuals (住み・墨)

Translucent paper, brushlike movement, and memories of her grandparents’ traditional house drive the choreographer-performer’s new work

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 1, 2022Shion Skye Carter, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

Paris Opera Ballet performs Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman’s Play to launch Digidance 2022-23 season

Canadian premiere of virtual production features 36 dancers and a score by Swedish composer (and Alicia Keys collaborator) Mikael Karlsson

WHAT'S STIRRING, DANCEJanet SmithOctober 31, 2022Digidance, DanceHouse

In-demand Dutch siblings’ Heart Drive brings the surreal and sexual to Ballet BC OVERTURE/S program

In Vancouver for a pioneering coproduction, Marne and Imre van Opstal have been shaking up Euro contemporary dance and Paris fashion runways

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 30, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Legendary Louise Lecavalier returns to Vancouver with new solo Stations, at DanceHouse November 23 to 26

Fou glorieux artistic director pushes her body to the edge, exploring fluidity, control, meditation, and obsession

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 28, 2022Partner Content, DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse

Dance reviews: Killer clowns, an intense look into the void, and a warm embrace

Arresting dancers in Hofesh Schechter’s Double Murder, and an immersive multimedia universe at Forêt

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 22, 2022DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE, Vancouver Civic Theatres

With Forêt, multitasking French musician Franck Vigroux conjures dreamlike world of dance, visuals, and sound

Sensorial universe blends the shamanistic and the cosmic via throbbing electro score, haunting video imagery, and slow, eerie dance

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 18, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

Dance review: One hundred more brings the ongoing need to resist oppression to frenzied life

Through pulsing rhythms, repeated gestures, and intense eye contact, new dance duet is a call to action

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 15, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Justine A. Chambers

Ballet BC announces Kim Spencer-Nairn as its incoming managing director

Chartered professional accountant and arts manager was the founder of Capture Photography Festival and trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 14, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

U.K. dance artist Hofesh Shechter's two-part Double Murder journeys from darkness to hope

At DanceHouse, Clowns explores the urge to violence as entertainment, while The Fix is a moving tribute to human connection

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 14, 2022DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Hofesh Shechter, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Solidarity and resistance drive the rhythms of Justine A. Chambers and Laurie Young's One hundred more

The pair drew on Black Lives Matter and other movements for the gestural language of the new duet

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 9, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Homepage feature

Stir Q&A: Director Chelsea McMullan discovers new ways to shoot dance for Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas, at VIFF 2022

New documentary goes inside the choreographer’s process, then plays out the celebrated National Ballet work in its entirety

SCREEN, DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 1, 2022VIFF 2022

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