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Old friends Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick build a Fortress by the sea together

Reconnected by pandemic times, the pair explores the strength of women at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 14, 2021BC Movement Arts Society, The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

Lamondance reimagines Romeo and Juliet as a dreamy holiday romance in A Winter's Twist

Davi Rodrigues choreographed, wrote, and directs the full-length contemporary-dance work, which is about to have its world premiere

DANCEGail JohnsonDecember 14, 2021Lamondance, Festive, dance

No average Nutcracker, as Arts Umbrella dancers serve up holiday Mixed Nuts, December 10 to 12

Production combines styles in pieces by top Canadian dance artists

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 9, 2021Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, Festive

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet’s epic Babel 7.16 is a vivid reflection on a divided world

Streamed here via DanceHouse’s Digidance, the Belgian work features 22 diverse performers on a stage with ever-shifting metal frames

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 8, 2021DANCEHOUSE

Review: Vancouver Opera's Orfeo ed Euridice conjures a dreamlike world of serene dancing and music

Balloons, chandeliers, and ghost-white jesters make for a fascinating, Felliniesque interpretation

OPERA, MUSIC, DANCEJanet SmithDecember 6, 2021Vancouver Opera, DANCE CENTRE, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, The Dance Centre

Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick join forces in Fortress

New collaboration plus four solos at Scotiabank Dance Centre on December 17 and 18

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 2, 2021Partner Content, The Dance Centre, BC Movement Arts Society

Small Stage brings dance under holiday lights at the Bentall Centre 40th anniversary, December 1

Arts Umbrella company dancers perform live outdoor pieces from The Nutcracker under a 45-foot Christmas tree

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 25, 2021Small Stage, Bentall Centre, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, Festive

Dance review: Red Sky Performance's Trace evokes a cosmos and a culture

The fiercely athletic full-length work revolves around the Anishinaabe creation stories

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 25, 2021Red Sky Performance, Indigenous, SFU Woodward's

Biennial Dance in Vancouver reimagines event through "slow curation" for a changing world

Australia’s Angela Coquet brings an outside eye to this year’s intimate, immersive offerings

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 22, 2021DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, The Dance Centre

Looks and sounds like the holidays: Stir's guide to seasonal concerts, plays, and performances

From classic carols to raucous dance and theatre pieces, Vancouver’s performing-arts groups are ready to spark joy

MUSIC, DANCE, THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 22, 2021Festive, Festive 1

Dance West Network supports dance artists and writers in conversation

Re-centering/Margins creative residency offers emerging dance artists of colour the chance to invite emerging writers of colour to accompany their in-studio processes

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 18, 2021Partner Content, Dance West Network

Red Sky Performance looks to the night sky through the eyes of the Anishinaabe

A work for six dancers with live music and cosmic visuals, Trace explores Indigenous star stories

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 18, 2021DanceHouse, Red Sky Performance, Sandra Laronde, Homepage feature

Dance review: Two creatively inspired solos explore the joy and struggle of artistic expression at Chutzpah Festival

Alexis Fletcher’s light in the rafters riffs on Tiko Kerr’s paintings, while Idan Cohen’s Solo for Orpheus taps vaudeville, Baroque, and drag

NEXT: New Dance in Development offers four emerging choreographers residency at state-of-the-art SFU theatre

DanceHouse, 149 Arts Society, and the National Arts Centre launch project that will livestream works-in-progress December 15

The Dance Centre celebrates the return of biennial Dance In Vancouver, November 24 to 28

The showcase of the local contemporary dance scene goes online and and live in venues around the city

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 16, 2021Partner Content, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, The Dance Centre

Dance review: Momentum of Isolation illustrates the pain of loneliness in enthralling ways

Radical System Art choreographer Shay Kuebler’s new full-length piece is moving and fiercely funky

DANCE, FESTSGail JohnsonNovember 15, 2021Chutzpah! Festival, Shay Kuebler, Radical System Art, dance

Dance artist Ted Littlemore draws on skills from drag to accordion-playing for Solo for Orpheus

The Ne.Sans Opera and Dance performer has formed a deep bond with the character from Greek mythology

Shay Kuebler's Momentum of Isolation evolves into a multilayered look at loneliness—and even love

The Radical System Art dance artist unveils the full-scale results of a pandemic-long project at the Chutzpah Festival

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 9, 2021Chutzpah Festival, Radical System Art, Shay Kuebler, Homepage feature

DanceHouse to stream spectacular Babel 7.16 as part of Digidance Series, December 8 to 19

Two of the world’s hottest choreographers, Belgians Damien Jalet and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, join forces with British sculptor Antony Gormley and dancers from around the globe

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 8, 2021Partner Content, DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse