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Through circus, Sacre reinvents Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Australian contemporary-circus company Circa turns the ground-breaking work on its head

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 10, 2023DanceHouse, The Cultch, circus, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Dance Victoria announces 2023 Chrystal Dance Prize for Julia Taffe, Shion Skye Carter, and Amber Downie-Black

Annual award supports work that collaborates on an international level

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2023Dance Victoria, Aeriosa, Julia Taffe, Shion Skye Carter, Chrystal Dance Prize

Dancehouse's Digidance 2022-23 season closes with Batsheva Dance Company, online January 9 to 29

Ohad Naharin seeks out new ways to create and experience dance

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 8, 2023Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Digidance

DanceHouse and The Cultch bring Australia’s mighty Circa to Vancouver, January 17 to 21

Sacre’s acrobats display the raw strength of circus

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 3, 2023Partner Content, DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse

2022 in review: A few of the year's most memorable moments in Vancouver performing and visual arts

Cyborg ballet, multisensory percussion, and a chorus of singing ghosts were just some of 2022’s highlights

Arts Umbrella School of Dance announces 2023 International Auditions Tour

The showcases are aimed at those interested in attending this year’s summer intensive as well as post-secondary programs

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 15, 2022Partner Content, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

Dance Victoria presents Out Innerspace Dance Theatre's Bygones on January 13, as part of Dance Days festival

Vancouver company’s optical illusions, cutting-edge choreography, and cinematic elements keep audience in suspense

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 14, 2022Partner Content, Dance Victoria, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre

DanceHouse and Hawthorne Foundation launch $10,000 Louise Bentall Award for Emerging B.C. Choreographers

Biennial prize pays tribute to memory of late arts supporter, who passed away in 2017

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithDecember 13, 2022DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, Louise Bentall

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Nutcracker

Intricate snowflake tutus, nods to pond hockey and Mounties, and a Vancouver-born Sugar Plum Fairy as it visits Vancouver December 9 to 11

Emmalena Fredriksson and Arash Khakpour's You Touch Me plays with connection through both spoken and body languages

New dance work explores identity, connection, and migration through ensemble’s multitude of mother tongues

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 6, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Arash Khakpour

Van Vogue Jam teams up with Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week for blowout Supernatural Kiki Ball, December 2

Expect runway divas, vogue battles, and competitions for grand cash prizes

FASHION, DANCEJanet SmithDecember 2, 2022Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, Van Vogue Jam

Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency artists Sidney Chuckas, Mohammed Rashead, and Ana Sosa have a studio showing, December 1

Dance West Network’s “Meet the Artists” event at Morrow provides a peek at work in progress

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 30, 2022Dance West Network

Arts Umbrella Dance Company's Mixed Nuts brings an assortment of dance styles to the stage

The modern and engaging twist on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is an extra-special holiday treat

DANCE, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverNovember 29, 2022Partner Content, Holiday 2022

Dance review: Canadian icon Louise Lecavalier's Stations enthralls

The founder of Fou glorieux shares her most personal work to date, wild and transfixing

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 24, 2022DanceHouse, dance review, Louise Lecavalier

In Stations solo, Louise Lecavalier journeys between four different physical moods

As ever, the Canadian dance icon’s work grew out of intense, instinctual exploration alone in the studio

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 21, 2022DanceHouse, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, Louise Lecavalier, dance

Vancouver holiday show guide 2022: Laughs, nostalgia, and classic choral beauty are all on the program

From a candle-lit harp concert to a one-man Christmas Carol, all the arts events you need to know to get festive

DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, COMEDYGail JohnsonNovember 21, 2022Holiday 2022, Festive 1

SFU Woodward's and DanceHouse continue longtime partnership with copresentation of Louise Lecavalier's Stations

Appearing at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, the solo is a deeply personal look at her lifelong relationship with dance

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 21, 2022Partner Content, SFU Woodward's, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs

Dance review: Through emotion and aerial movement, Throe throbs with a sense of yearning

Performance company Corporeal Imago’s Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes bring a fresh new choreographic language to Vancouver with their new ensemble piece

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 18, 2022Corporeal Imageo, Gabrielle Martin, Dance Centre, dance, review, dance review

Microphones and loopers, as the body becomes an Echo Chamber in Vanessa Goodman's newest work

The Action at a Distance artistic director has been busy creating while touring North America and the world

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 17, 2022Vanessa Goodman, Chutzpah! Festival, Action at a Distance

Stir Q&A: Plastic pollution and human toxicity swirl in Kinesis somatheatro's new Noxious

Choreographer Paras Terezakis talks Pacific gyres, microplastics, extremism, and the open dialogue that can happen in a studio

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