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Dance review: At Ballet BC's HERE season opener, its largest-ever work brings the audience to its feet

Shahar Binyamini’s exhilarating and unforgettable 50-dancer BOLERO X caps a top-notch program that showcases a powerhouse corps

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 4, 2023Ballet BC, Batsheva, BALLET BC, ARTS UMBRELLA, Vancouver Civic Theatres

In new dance solo Accumulation, Alvin Erasga Tolentino taps into human consumption's alarming effect on the environment

World premiere from Co.ERASGA incorporates a live soundtrack by Emmanuel Mailly, and sculptural work by visual artist Marc Gerenton

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 3, 2023Co.ERASGA, Performance Works

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 screenings and installations to catch at F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement

Offerings this year span stop-motion animation and immersive video environments, and topics from Indigenous belief systems to melting glaciers

DANCE, SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverNovember 2, 2023F-O-R-M, Festival of Recorded Movement

The Dance Centre presents Calle Verde and Jhoely Triana Flamenco in Discover Dance! series, November 9

Flamenco artists navigate tradition and experimentation with concepts spanning from a bullfight to finding strength in roots

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 1, 2023Partner Content, The Dance Centre

Belle Spirale Dance Projects' KIN navigates intergenerational memory at the STAND Festival, November 2

Piece directed by Alexis Fletcher highlights the partnerwork and emotion of Brazilian dancers Juan Duarte and Lazaro Silva

Corporeal Imago inverts traditional circus dance with the return of aerial fusion piece Throe, November 3 and 4

Aerial rope choreography and emotive contemporary dance form the basis of post-apocalyptic work by Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 30, 2023Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Corporeal Imageo

Dance review: The Impossible Has Already Happened conjures melting glaciers and climate change through projected imagery and fluid movement

MascallDance-Footnote New Zealand Dance coproduction takes a gentle, humanistic, and dreamlike approach to global warming

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 30, 2023MascallDance, Jennifer Mascall, climate change, Anvil Centre, Anvil Theatre

Dance review: By turns cerebral and funny, Kidd Pivot's Assembly Hall plays elaborate games

In Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s world premiere, ancient stories and unruly humans can’t be contained

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 28, 2023DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Kidd Pivot, Crystal Pite

Ballet BC's 50-dancer BOLERO X becomes an act of unity and humanity in the face of division and inhumanity

Israeli choreographer and Batsheva alumnus Shahar Binyamini grabs the last ticket out to bring Vancouver his epic work set to Ravel’s masterpiece

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 27, 2023Ballet BC, BALLET BC, ballet, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

Ballet BC presents Royal Winnipeg Ballet in holiday favourite Nutcracker, December 7 to 10

Enchanted story set to Tchaikovsky score features Canadian elements, from snowy pond hockey to a Parliament Hill battle

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 27, 2023Partner Content, Ballet BC, Holiday 2023

Theatre review: Te Tangi a te Tūī's acrobatic stories of Māori magical spirits speak eloquently to colonial damage

Indigenous language and oral storytelling traditions drive circus-theatre piece from New Zealand, commissioned by The Cultch and Urban Ink

DANCE, THEATRE, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 21, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch

Jennifer Mascall reflects upon dance's ability to take social action ahead of The Impossible Has Already Happened's Canadian premiere

Piece co-created with Footnote New Zealand Dance explores water as a symbol of environmental distress

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 20, 2023MascallDance, Anvil Theatre, Homepage feature

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Corporeal Imago's aerial dance piece Throe, November 3 and 4

Work features six dancers clinging resiliently to aerial ropes in the throes of survival

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 19, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Blackout Art Society's third annual STAND Festival centres on immigrant and refugee artists, November 2 to 12

Several impactful theatre, dance, and music performances are on the lineup, along with workshop, art exhibition, and live podcast offerings

FESTS, THEATRE, DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverOctober 19, 2023Partner Content, Blackout Art Society

Crystal Pite navigates multiple planes of reality and conflict for Assembly Hall

Working again with theatre artist Jonathon Young, Vancouver dance star makes sophisticated play out of medieval re-enactment, Robert’s Rules, and the spoken word

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 19, 2023Kidd Pivot, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Crystal Pite, Homepage feature

Co.ERASGA hosts world premiere of dance hybrid work Accumulation, November 9 to 11

Solo by Alvin Erasga Tolentino uses found objects, debris, and natural remnants to tell a story of environmental crisis

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 16, 2023Partner Content, Co.ERASGA

Lesley Telford's intergenerational Borrowed Time integrates dancers whose ages span 50 years

Inspired by her mother, the Inverso Productions choreographer explores connection, acceptance, and support

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 12, 2023Inverso Productions, Lesley Telford

Stir Q&A: Tainui Tukiwaho talks about Te Tangi a te Tūī's unique meld of Māori culture, dance, and circus arts

Director-cowriter reflects on the safe creative space in unique collaboration between New Zealand’s Te Rēhia Theatre Company and The Dust Palace

Radical System Art's Shay Kuebler wins Barney Commissioning Prize from Portland's White Bird

Choreographer to create new project called Ghost Scripts with $15,000 prize from respected American contemporary-dance presenter

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 5, 2023Shay Kuebler, Radical System Art, White Bird, contemporary dance

Mascall Dance's The Impossible Has Already Happened marks Canadian premiere at Anvil Theatre, October 27

Co-production with Footnote New Zealand Dance brings together two nation’s stories of water amid a global climate crisis

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, MascallDance, Anvil Theatre

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