The Dance Centre announces 2022-23 season, with French electroacoustic innovator Franck Vigroux's Forêt, French-Malian Smaïl Kanouté, and more
Local premieres include Jeanette Kotowich’s: Kisiskâciwan, Justine A Chambers and Laurie Young’s One hundred more, and Corporeal Imago’s Throe
Compagnie d’Autres Cordes stages the multimedia Franck Vigroux: Forêt.
A MIND-EXPANDING electro-acoustic journey; a new mix of aerial acrobatics and contemporary dance; and a performance-art piece about Israeli-Arab race relations.
Those are just a few of the highlights of the just-announced Dance Centre season, a mix of international and local contemporary works.
Kicking off the season in the Global Dance Connections series at the Scotiabank Dance Centre is local artist Jeanette Kotowich’s Kisiskâciwan, September 30 to October 1, in which she reflects Nêhiyaw/Métis cosmology with Indigenous and non-Indigenous dancers.
Vancouver artist Justine A Chambers and Berlin’s Laurie Young present One hundred more October 13 and 14. Their first collaboration taps today’s socio-political struggle, expressing it through a groundswell of bodies resisting and moving in collective anger, captured and replayed in an endless torrent of images.
Justine A Chambers and Laurie Young’s One hundred more.
France’s Compagnie d’Autres Cordes then arrives with Franck Vigroux: Forêt, October 20 to 22—a mix of the electroacoustic musician and composer’s immersive sounds with dance and dazzling projected video.
November 17 to 19 marks the debut of Corporeal Imago’s Throe, a new mix of aerial and contemporary dance by Cirque du Soleil alumni Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes.
Vancouver dance artists Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson present You Touch Me from December 8 to 10, an intricate web of duets and text within an ensemble that investigates cultural identity, race, gender, and migration.
The new year welcomes French-Malian dancer, choreographer, film maker, visual artist, and designer Smail Kanouté with Never Twenty One, a tribute to the young Black men who have been victims of gun violence in New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Johannesburg—and will never reach the age of 21. The show runs January 19 to 21 as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
Israeli choreographic star Hillel Kogan’s We Love Arabs runs April 13 to 15, 2023. Presented with Théâtre La Seizième, it imagines peace and power struggles between a Jewish choreographer and an Arab dancer.
FakeKnot’s Piña wraps the Global Connections season May 4 to 6, in an exploration of choreographer Ralph Escamillan’s identity as a first-generation Canadian-born Filipinx and with a cast of all-Filipinx dancers.
November 4 and 5, Shion Skye Carter performs Residuals, a work that draws on Japanese calligraphy and memories of her grandparents, presented through the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award and in partnership with Powell Street Festival.
Mark September 17 on your calendar for The Dance Centre’s 21st annual Open House and April 29 for International Dance Day.
The facility has also unveiled a season-long lineup of noonhour Discover Dance! programming, ranging from the aerial performances of Aeriosa to Lamondance and Karen Flamenco Dance Company.
Subscriptions, and single tickets for most events, are on sale at
https://thedancecentre.ca.
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