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Dance review: Stunning imagery and fresh voices power Ballet BC's energized NOW mixed program

Out Innerspace Dance Theatre sets fiery work against solar flares, while newcomer Micaela Taylor brings street touches to contemporary style

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 9, 2024BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Spring 2023

Ballet BC dancers ride wild worlds of sound, sun, and genre-crossing styles in premieres on the NOW program

Choreographers Micaela Taylor and Tiffany Tregarthen revel in working with a company that’s hungry for new challenges

Emerging Artists of Ballet BC and New Coast Players come together for Absence; Creation, February 17

Ballet by Jack Campbell and Antony Knight makes its world premiere at Arts Umbrella

Dance review: At Ballet BC's HERE season opener, its largest-ever work brings the audience to its feet

Shahar Binyamini’s exhilarating and unforgettable 50-dancer BOLERO X caps a top-notch program that showcases a powerhouse corps

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 4, 2023Ballet BC, Batsheva, BALLET BC, ARTS UMBRELLA, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Ballet BC's 50-dancer BOLERO X becomes an act of unity and humanity in the face of division and inhumanity

Israeli choreographer and Batsheva alumnus Shahar Binyamini grabs the last ticket out to bring Vancouver his epic work set to Ravel’s masterpiece

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 27, 2023Ballet BC, BALLET BC, ballet, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

Ballet BC hosts Grand Opening Weekend on Granville Island, May 27 and 28

Observe rehearsals, performances, and Q&As on Saturday or register for classes and special events on Sunday

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 26, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2023, Granville Island

Ballet BC announces 2023-24 season, including an epic 50-person piece and four world premieres

Works by.Stephen Shropshire, Shahar Binyamini, Micaela Taylor, and Out Innerspace are on the roster, as well as a few new Surrey performances

Dance review: Life, laughs, and the apocalypse—BC WAVE/S program takes an epic journey

With breathtaking breadth, Johan Inger’s PASSING looks at the traces we leave behind; Roy Assaf’s 20 People pokes fun in fuchsia pink

DANCEJanet SmithMay 13, 2023Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Spring 2023

Stir Q&A: Israel's Roy Assaf lets dance speak profoundly for itself, at Ballet BC's WAVE/S double bill

“For many years now I have been, with great difficulty, trying to answer the questions of journalists about my work”

DANCEJanet SmithMay 9, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2023, Vancouver Civic Theatres

At Ballet BC, inspiration flows from a volcanic eruption for Johan Inger's large-scale new work

The Swedish icon’s new commission builds a mini-community onstage at WAVE/S

DANCEJanet SmithMay 5, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, ballet, Spring 2023, Johan Inger

Ballet BC dancers show their choreographic chops at Take Form, March 31 and April 1

Sidney Chuckas, Michael Garcia, Orlando Harbutt, Jacalyn Tatro, and Jacob Williams create short works

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 28, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Dance review: Ballet BC adeptly shifts moods from dark eco horror to playful rebellion against conformity at HORIZON/S

Dancers move eerily in Jiří Pokorný’s A Night Walker, while Shay Kuebler’s First/Last has sly fun with suit jackets

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 18, 2023Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Spring 2023

Vancouver choreographer Shay Kuebler brings his signature physicality to Ballet BC for the first time

Artist stages a 20-dancer work about society and surveillance, all set to God Speed You! Black Emperor

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 9, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Shay Kuebler, Radical System Art, Spring 2023

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Nutcracker

Intricate snowflake tutus, nods to pond hockey and Mounties, and a Vancouver-born Sugar Plum Fairy as it visits Vancouver December 9 to 11

Dance review: Throbbing beats, surging sexuality, and time stands still at Ballet BC's edgy OVERTURE/S season opener

Buzzy show wires directly into the European contemporary-dance vanguard

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 5, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

In-demand Dutch siblings’ Heart Drive brings the surreal and sexual to Ballet BC OVERTURE/S program

In Vancouver for a pioneering coproduction, Marne and Imre van Opstal have been shaking up Euro contemporary dance and Paris fashion runways

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 30, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Ballet BC announces Kim Spencer-Nairn as its incoming managing director

Chartered professional accountant and arts manager was the founder of Capture Photography Festival and trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 14, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Ballet BC unveils a diverse roster of new dancers for 2022-23 season

Talent hails from the U.S., France, Italy, and our own Arts Umbrella

DANCEJanet SmithSeptember 3, 2022Ballet BC, BALLET BC

A Seth Rogen vase, contemporary dance, and cocktails, as Ballet BC celebrates 35 with MOMENTUM gala, June 4

Event and auction transforms Rocky Mountaineer Train Station

DANCEJanet SmithMay 31, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Ballet BC unveils 2022-23 season that features Roy Assaf, Johan Inger, and more world premieres

Royal Winnipeg’s Nutcracker returns, Tero Saarinen Company coproduces, and Vancouver choreographer Shay Kuebler creates first work for the company

DANCEJanet SmithMay 19, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

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