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From baby-friendly studio time to intergenerational singing, Arts Umbrella offers vast range of new classes this fall

The arts-education centre for young people from age three months to 22 years launches numerous courses in its new home on Granville Island

ART & DESIGN, DANCE, THEATRE, COMEDYStir VancouverSeptember 2, 2021Partner Content, Arts Umbrella

Temporary Steps dances outdoors into an uncertain autumn, with new music by Leslie Uyeda, September 5

Little Chamber show at Celebration Hall features eight musicians and choreography by Ted Littlemore

DANCE, MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 2, 2021Little Chamber Music

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival fires up Granville Island in free shows

Acts from Vancouver and Victoria pummel the Picnic Pavilion stage

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 1, 2021Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

DanceHouse launches online Digidance series with Deborah Colker’s Dog Without Feathers

Brazilian standout evokes the natural beauty and environmental destruction in Capibaribe River region

DANCEJanet SmithAugust 31, 2021DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse

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

DANCEJanet SmithAugust 26, 2021DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse

Krystal Kiran brings the song and dance to Monsoon Arts Fest's Sunday Funday, August 22

The youngest South Asian woman to perform on Broadway gives a Zoom class geared to all ages

FESTS, DANCEGail JohnsonAugust 20, 2021Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts, Krystal Kiran, dance, what's stirring

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters brings dazzling dance to Vancouver Queer Film Festival, to August 22

A look at the creation, and remount, of a seminal work spurred by the AIDS crisis

SCREEN, DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithAugust 18, 2021Queer Film Festival

Choreographer Jamie Robinson comes through the void to explore connection in Paradise Replica

Using repetitive movement, the Iris Garland Award-winner deconstructs the way dance is made

DANCE, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithAugust 17, 2021DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Homepage feature

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival presents local and national artists on stage and online

Flamenco Rosario hosts the highly anticipated annual fest, running September 4 to 26

Arts Umbrella Dance open houses show a program that goes beyond movement, in a bright new facility

Events August 12 and 17 reveal how life-changing dance education offers tools for success in and out of the studio.

DANCEStir VancouverJuly 30, 2021Partner Content, ARTS UMBRELLA, Arts Umbrella

Vancouver's Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts celebrates South Asian culture

Through music, dance, visual art, a marketplace, workshops, and more, diverse South Asian artists share their culture

Posh Ball builds an energized and empowering new tradition at Pride Vancouver

Van Vogue Jam’s Ralph Escamillan takes international runway competition online

DANCE, FESTS, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithJuly 27, 2021Pride Vancouver

Wreck Beach Butoh returns to Vancouver's iconic clothing-optional beach

Kokoro Dance presents its annual performance for 10 artists rain or shine

DANCEGail JohnsonJuly 20, 2021Kokoro Dance, Wreck Beach Butoh, butoh, Jay Hirabayashi

Dance review: Rachel Meyer builds another off-kilter world of wonder in Mama, do we die when we sleep?

Four top-flight dancers inhabit a surreal universe of stacked chairs, a strange blue dress, and an echoing lullabye

DANCEJanet SmithJuly 17, 2021Dancing on the Edge

Alexis Fletcher switches it up with Vanessa Goodman and Ted Littlemore, creating a new sonic connection

At Dancing on the Edge, Tuning marks a new journey for the 14-year Ballet BC dancer

DANCEJanet SmithJuly 14, 2021Dancing on the Edge

Dance review: Dream logic and ballet-honed bodies, indoors and outdoors at Dancing on the Edge

Kirsten Wicklund bids an intense adieu to the Vancouver stage for awhile

DANCEJanet SmithJuly 13, 2021Dancing on the Edge

Dance review: Subtly and sensuously, Two evokes the yearning for connection

Choreographer Wen Wei Wang’s duet at Dancing on the Edge Festival speaks to pandemic-era loneliness

DANCE, FESTSGail JohnsonJuly 10, 2021Dancing on the Edge, Wen Wei Wang, Wen Wei Dance, dance, Homepage feature

Ziyian Kwan and Rianne Svelnis conjure a garden of wonder and mystery in Dumb Instrument Dance's Dreaming of Koi

Audiences will move through a botanical labyrinth at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden, during Dancing on the Edge

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 7, 2021Dancing on the Edge

Bodies and seascapes unite in two COVID Commissions from both coasts, at the Dancing on the Edge festival

Billy Marchenski embodies isolation at Iona Beach, while Meredith Kalaman explores ocean and identity

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 2, 2021Dancing on the Edge, Billy Marchenski, butoh, Homepage feature

Shay Kuebler and Radical System Art take another look at isolation in M.O.I.—the partitions, at Dancing on the Edge July 8 and 9

It’s the second chapter in a multi-dancer work-in-progress that kicks off the fest’s Firehall Arts Centre live series

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