Dancing on the Edge announces 30-show program for June 4 to 13
Amid the offerings are names like Lukas Malkowski, Belle Spirale Dance Projects, O.Dela Arts and musica intima, and much more
Lukas Malkowski’s Microphone Controller. Photo by Drew Berry
Modus Operandi’s Wound. Photo by David Raymond
DANCING ON THE EDGE has just released the programming for its 38th annual festival, featuring 30 shows centred at the Firehall Arts Centre, SFU Woodward’s, and The Dance Centre, from June 4 to 13.
Names on the roster include Daina Ashbee, Corporeal Imago, Starr Muranko, Co.ERASGA, Joe Ink, and Company 605, with several world premieres and shorter works grouped across the fest’s four mixed EDGE Programs.
Amid the full-length offerings is Microphone Controller, by Canadian dance artist Lukas Malkowski—his reimagining of a rock concert for both Deaf and hearing audiences through choreography, embodiment, and sign language.
The fest also sees the Vancouver-based world premiere of Belle Spirale Dance Projects’ full-length KIN & DOVES, featuring performer Sid Chuckas (a Ballet BC alumnus).
Also making its debut is Char from Prince George’s Method Dance, an interdisciplinary creation about wildfires in Central and Northern British Columbia.
Elsewhere, Where You Go, a multidisciplinary collaboration between Vancouver’s O.Dela Arts and musica intima, sees the chorus providing live music for a piece inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, portraying two lovers bound by the inescapable promise of death.
Anne, meanwhile, is a personal work choreographed and performed by Laurence Lemieux of Toronto’s Compagnie de la Citadelle.
Additional world premieres include She Was Here, a solo by local choreographer Vidya Kotamraju; Casseiopia, a new work by Indigenous artist Cheyenne Seary created in collaboration with a cast of mature dancers from Vancouver's All Bodies Dance; and Joe Ink’s the heart of it, from Vancouver’s Joe Laughlin.
Other shorter pieces include Wound by Vancouver’s Modus Operandi and Soft Animals by North Van’s Dance//Novella, as well as the Western Canadian premiere of B.C.-based sensation Daina Ashbee’s Laborious Song. Local artists Starr Muranko and Co.ERASGA are collaborating on Tahanan/Home.
In addition there will be sneak peeks at two works in progress: Eighty Years by Jennifer Aoki, and Lighthouse by Company 605.
Single tickets are on sale May 11. Find the full schedule and lineup here. 
Related Articles
