RUBBERBAND, Kidd Pivot's Revisor, and more as Dancehouse unveils live 2021-22 season
LA’s BODYTRAFFIC, and Australia’s Circa also join the roster, with a planned Digidance online program to come
RUBBERBAND’s Every So Slightly. Photo by Marie-Noëlle Pilon.
Crystal Pite’s critically acclaimed Revisor returns. Photo by Michael Slobodian
DANCE COMPANIES from Norway, Australia, and right here at home are on the roster as DanceHouse has just revealed a full-on return to live performances in its 2021-22 season.
The program, split between the Vancouver Playhouse and SFU Goldcorp Centre, boasts works by everyone from local superstar Crystal Pite to Down Under circus innovators Circa.
Montreal’s streetdance-energized RUBBERBAND kicks off the season with Ever So Slightly on October 22 and 23. The dystopian work finds choreographer Victor Quijada setting 10 extraordinary performers to the live music of composer/DJ Jasper Gahunia and violinist William Lamoureu.
Red Sky Performance, seen during DanceHouse’s Digidance online 2020-21 season, is back November 24 to 27 in-person with Trace, an astrophysical spectacle inspired by the origin story of the Anishinaabe people and the mythological figure of Geezhigo-Quae (Sky Woman). It’s copresented with SFU Woodwards Cultural Programs.
Australia’s Circa hits the Playhouse stage with Sacre from January 11 to 15 in a copresentation with The Cultch. The work features 10 acrobats interpreting Igor Stravinsky’s wild and carnal The Rite of Spring through circus arts. (See trailer below.)
In February, check out one of the rising stars of a new generation of Scandinavian artists, as Norwegian dance-theatre choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen brings his winter guests here with the striking work Story, story, die.
If you missed it the first time, or you just want to revel in its genius again, Kidd Pivot’s Revisor makes a long-awaited return March 30 to April 2, 2022. In it the celebrated creators of Betroffenheit, choreographer Crystal Pite and writer/director Jonathon Young, mix political satire, pantomime, and the visceral power of words.
Wrapping up the season in May is a visit from Los Angeles’s BODYTRAFFIC with a wildly diverse mixed program of their most acclaimed works, including Hofesh Shechter’s Dust and Matthew Neenan’s whimsically funny A Million Voices.
“After a long, challenging stretch without live performance, we know our audience is ready to experience works that will dazzle minds, move hearts, and set imaginations racing with untold possibilities,” artistic and executive director Jim Smith said in the announcement today. “In our return to the stage, and with the presentation of DanceHouse’s 2021/22 season, we are confident we will achieve just that.”
In a first for DanceHouse, only single tickets will be available for each performance. DanceHouse 2019/2020 Season Subscribers will receive first access to purchase them, as of now, with tickets for the general public going on sale on September 9.
DanceHouse has also announced it will continue its Digidance program--the popular digital presentations it launched with copresenters Harbourfront Centre, the National Arts Centre, and Danse Danse during the pandemic. Watch for more details on that lineup at the end of this month.
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