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Vancouver International Burlesque Festival unveils 2023 program, March 29 to April 2

Zyra Lee Vanity, Moscato Sky, and Vancouver-based Legend Lorna headline an inclusive live event

BC Movement Arts showcases OURO Collective's mixed program from March 5 to 11

Touring across rural communities in B.C., the performance is part of the society’s North Island Contemporary Dance Series

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 27, 2023Partner Content, BC Movement Arts Society

Review: Broken Chord delivers potent social commentary through dance, song, and South African history

Voices of South African artists and members of Vancouver Chamber Choir prove outstanding

DANCE, MUSICGail JohnsonFebruary 24, 2023DanceHouse, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver Civic Theatres, African, South Africa

Vancouver International Dance Festival presents Christopher House in New Tricks

The veteran choreographer and performer explores the queering of the body and the imagination in riveting solo

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 22, 2023Partner Content, VIDF

Arts Umbrella Dance Company presents MIDSEASON at the Vancouver Playhouse on March 7 and 8

Choreographers include Paxton Ricketts, Ethan Colangelo, Sharon Eyal, Lukas Timulak, and more

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 20, 2023Partner Content, ARTS UMBRELLA

B.C. Movement Arts Society launches North Island Contemporary Dance Series March 5 with OURO Collective

Ne Sans Opera and Dance and Human Fields amid the innovative artists hitting West Coast communities through to September 27

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 17, 2023Partner Content, BC Movement Arts Society, Ouro Collective

From South Africa, Broken Chord shares the overlooked story of The African Native Choir

South African vocalists join performer-choreographer Gregory Maqoma and Vancouver Chamber Choir in the ambitious dance work’s Canadian premiere

Ballet Jörgen draws on the age-old and the contemporary for its fresh take on Cinderella

Canadian dance icon Bengt Jörgen has devoted his company to making the art form accessible

DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2023Ballet Jorgen, Massey Theatre, ballet

Matriarchs Uprising employs tech to take female contemporary Indigenous dance into the future

The multifaceted festival features everything from VR films to dancing avatars while remaining rooted in ancestral world views

Vancouver International Dance Festival returns for 23rd year with ambitious lineup

From manic butoh to punk flamenco, the fest features artists from as far away as Senegal, Italy, Japan, and beyond

Dance review: At PuSh Festival, Lontano + Instante put fresh new spin on circus arts

Vancouver audiences have never witnessed anything like the way the Cyr wheel turns in works by la Compagnie 7Bis from France

DANCE, FESTSGail JohnsonJanuary 27, 2023PuSh Festival, circus, review, dance review, reviews

DanceHouse and Vancouver New Music team up to present Broken Chord

Featuring one dancer, four vocal soloists, and an onstage a cappella chorus, the epic work runs from February 23 to 25

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2023Partner Content

At PuSh Festival, Le Cri des Méduses transports haunting French painting to the stage

Quebec City’s Alan Lake Factorie blends dance, theatre, visual art, and cinema in its founder’s interpretation of a grisly 1819 masterpiece

FESTS, DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 24, 2023PuSh Festival, dance, Quebec, Alan Lake, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Dance review: Never Twenty One builds an intense new dance language out of African diaspora

At the PuSh Festival, Smail Kanouté’s thought-provoking new work interweaves spoken testimonials, graffitied bodies, and a mix of street-dance languages

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2023PuSh Festival, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

TomoeArts artistic director and Japanese classical dance master Colleen Lanki passes away

She brought her passion for Noh theatre and nihon buyoh to Vancouver

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2023TomoeArts

Circus arts see a raw and dreamlike new twist in O'DD and Lontano + Instante at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Finland’s Race Horse Company conjures an eerie sci-fi universe, while La Compagnie 7Bis spins the Cyr wheel in metaphorical new ways

DANCE, THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2023circus, PuSh Festival, DANCE CENTRE

Review: Circa's Sacre builds dark beauty out of its dance-acrobatic hybrid

At The Cultch and DanceHouse, Aussie company slow-builds to a frantic climax of bodies bending, tangling, and lifting in kaleidoscopic formations

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2023Circa, DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, The Cultch, THE CULTCH

Massey Theatre presents Ballet Jörgen Canada’s Cinderella

The contemporary take on the classic fairy tale features innovative, dramatic sensibilities

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2023Partner Content, Massey Theatre

Never Twenty One pushes beyond gun violence into Black identity and creativity

Presented by the PuSh fest and Dance Centre, Smaïl Kanouté’s intense dance work draws on his own quest to connect with Afro communities around the world

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2023DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, PuSh Festival, Homepage feature