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Club Origami's folded paper allows kids' imaginations to flourish at Vancouver International Children’s Festival

Presented with Boca del Lupo, the accessible production by the U.K.’s Seven Circles encourages interactive learning

A Simple Space serves up acrobatic feats without the sequins, at the Kay Meek Arts Centre May 22

Aussie troupe Gravity & Other Myths’ stripped-down spectacle has been a hit around the world

DANCE, THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 16, 2025Kay Meek Arts Centre, A Simple Space, Spring 2025

Inverso Productions' LIFT festival brings generations together through dance

Senior dance artists offer decades of insight to the new event’s joyful collaborations with younger performers

DANCEJanet SmithMay 15, 2025Inverso Productions, Lesley Telford, Spring 2025, Claudia Moore

Ballet BC announces 2025-26 season, complete with a Jiří Kylián work and new Saturday matinees

Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber share a full-evening work, and hit productions of Crystal Pite’s Frontier and Shahar Binyamini’s BOLERO X return

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 15, 2025Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

With Arts Umbrella's Season Finale, Rena Narumi returns to source of artistic independence and community

In the midst of an international career, the Kidd Pivot dancer is setting a short Crystal Pite work for the student showcase

DANCEJanet SmithMay 14, 2025Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, SPRING 2025

Dancing on the Edge unveils program full of local works by the likes of MascallDance and Ziyian Kwan, June 12 to 21

Moroccan and Spanish choreographers join the international contingent of event that runs at Firehall Arts Centre and SFU Woodward’s

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithMay 13, 2025Dancing on the Edge, Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, SFU Woodward's

Seeds of Resistance honours the vibrant legacy of Mexican poet Rosario Castellanos

With the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, artists Marco Esccer and Carla Alcántara celebrate the centenary of the feminist writer’s birth

Dance review: Love in all its complexity at Ballet BC’s season-closing DUSK

Powerful dancing across the board in Medhi Walerski’s striking Last light; Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s straight-from-the-heart Obsidian; and Marco Goecke’s vibrating Woke Up Blind

DANCEJanet SmithMay 9, 2025BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2025

Hong Kong Exile tunes into celestial stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 15

As part of Asian Heritage Month, the gallery’s first performers-in-residence use old-school radios and headlamps in a new piece that fuses dance, multimedia, and theatre

Eric Cheung receives Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award, while Vanessa Goodman wins Isadora Award

The Dance Centre prizes carry $5,000 in funding for each artist

At The Dance Centre's Open Stage, Punit Singh's SubHuman investigates self-perception

Fifth edition of uncurated program provides a welcoming space for artist’s first dance-theatre piece

Indian Summer Festival unveils dance, sarod music, and comedy shows for July event

Tickets on sale today for a Simran Sachar–Justine A. Chambers choreographic collab, comedian Kiran Deol, and Indian classical music star Alam Khan

FESTS, DANCEJanet SmithMay 5, 2025Indian Summer Festival, Am Johal, Justine A. Chambers

Live piano and raw love, as duo Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber craft their first premiere at Ballet BC's DUSK

Batsheva Dance Company alumni’s fascinating journey around the globe and onscreen finally brings them to Vancouver with Obsidian

DANCEJanet SmithMay 2, 2025Ballet BC, BALLET BC, SPRING 2025, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Dance review: Waking nightmares and hallucinatory scenes haunt Peeping Tom's Diptych

In a surreal and outstanding conclusion to the DanceHouse season, the Belgian company warps time and gravity, toying inventively with cinematic tropes

DANCEJanet SmithApril 28, 2025DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Spring 2025