Dance

Ralph Escamillan’s subversive, playful new work brings the Ball from the runway to the stage

Artist Jasmine Chen relearns Mandarin and discovers lost family history in multidisciplinary, personal show

At The Dance Centre, world premiere by Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes moves away from aerial arts and toward conceptual innovation

Principal dancers from the National Ballet of Canada perform a guest duet and artists-in-residence Margaret Grenier and Starr Muranko share a creation after their five-year collaboration with the troupe

Featuring works by Crystal Pite, Marcos Morau, Sharon Eyal, and more, the season finale is a celebration of presence, community, and the beauty of fleeting time

Choreographer Stephanie Thomasen’s piece has no plot and instead invites audience members to imagine their own storylines

Vancouver Playhouse show features works by several world-renowned choreographers, including Crystal Pite, Sharon Eyal, and Medhi Walerski

Set to music by Philip Glass, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s latest piece focuses on everyday moments and palpable intimacy

Amid the offerings are names like Lukas Malkowski, Belle Spirale Dance Projects, O.Dela Arts and musica intima, and much more

Marking Asian Heritage Month, the show features names like Kasandra La China, Andrea Nann, and Sujit Vaidya

The Dance Centre announces Lola Award and Isadora Award for Vancouver choreographers

Star choreographic duo Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber return with a full-evening premiere that draws on the emotional layers in Philip Glass’s music—and in the company members themselves

At the Firehall Arts Centre, the Toronto-based choreographer reckons with the forced displacement of Japanese Canadians and the cycles of fear-based thinking that still echo today

Production by Denmark’s Uppercut Dance Theater features breathtaking physicality and inventive humour

On Belle Spirale Dance Projects’ Exhale program, the Vancouver artist creates his first piece since leaving Ballet Edmonton—complete with live vocals and a central metal sculpture

Compelling production features choreography by Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes in collaboration with five performers

Showcase features performances by Sujit Vaidya, Toronto’s Dreamwalker Dance/Andrea Nann, and more

In this DanceHouse and Vancouver New Music copresentation, the Australian performers feed off the energy of nine drum kits on a stylized stage

Mayumi Lashbrook’s dance-theatre piece centres the forced removal of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War

With its lease coming up in 2029 on land owned by Scotiabank, the future of the dance hub had been uncertain

Batsheva Dance Company alumni draw on Gaga movement for the searingly intimate piece with a full-company cast

Celebration of sound and dance sets music from the Golden Age of tango alongside modern gems

Wen Wei Wang’s Last Breath and a new piece by Alexis Fletcher, Sylvain Senez, and Ariana Barr explore the virtuosity of established performers

At DanceHouse, Robert Lepage’s inventive visual touches and Côté Danse’s expressive contemporary choreography offer a surreal, boldly contemporary new take on narrative ballet

Montreal’s Compagnie Catherine Gaudet to kick off five-show lineup that brings in companies from as far away as Sweden and India

Bright, bold, and explosive Australian piece offers audiences an infectious sense of hope and exuberance

In a DanceHouse presentation, Guillaume Côté and Robert Lepage stage their tightly paced adaptation of Shakespeare’s story

At the Roundhouse, Little Room Productions’ inaugural piece draws on choreographer Isak Enquist’s lifelong experience in martial arts

The piece by Vision Impure, called being, comes to KW Studios courtesy of Kokoro Dance Theatre Society

The Dance Centre and Vancouver International Dance Festival coproduction concludes a triptych spanning over 15 years