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Van Vogue Jam teams up with Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week for blowout Supernatural Kiki Ball, December 2

Expect runway divas, vogue battles, and competitions for grand cash prizes

FASHION, DANCEJanet SmithDecember 2, 2022Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, Van Vogue Jam

Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency artists Sidney Chuckas, Mohammed Rashead, and Ana Sosa have a studio showing, December 1

Dance West Network’s “Meet the Artists” event at Morrow provides a peek at work in progress

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 30, 2022Dance West Network

Arts Umbrella Dance Company's Mixed Nuts brings an assortment of dance styles to the stage

The modern and engaging twist on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is an extra-special holiday treat

DANCE, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverNovember 29, 2022Partner Content, Holiday 2022

Dance review: Canadian icon Louise Lecavalier's Stations enthralls

The founder of Fou glorieux shares her most personal work to date, wild and transfixing

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 24, 2022DanceHouse, dance review, Louise Lecavalier

In Stations solo, Louise Lecavalier journeys between four different physical moods

As ever, the Canadian dance icon’s work grew out of intense, instinctual exploration alone in the studio

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 21, 2022DanceHouse, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, Louise Lecavalier, dance

Vancouver holiday show guide 2022: Laughs, nostalgia, and classic choral beauty are all on the program

From a candle-lit harp concert to a one-man Christmas Carol, all the arts events you need to know to get festive

DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, COMEDYGail JohnsonNovember 21, 2022Holiday 2022, Festive 1

SFU Woodward's and DanceHouse continue longtime partnership with copresentation of Louise Lecavalier's Stations

Appearing at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, the solo is a deeply personal look at her lifelong relationship with dance

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 21, 2022Partner Content, SFU Woodward's, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs

Dance review: Through emotion and aerial movement, Throe throbs with a sense of yearning

Performance company Corporeal Imago’s Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes bring a fresh new choreographic language to Vancouver with their new ensemble piece

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 18, 2022Corporeal Imageo, Gabrielle Martin, Dance Centre, dance, review, dance review

Microphones and loopers, as the body becomes an Echo Chamber in Vanessa Goodman's newest work

The Action at a Distance artistic director has been busy creating while touring North America and the world

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 17, 2022Vanessa Goodman, Chutzpah! Festival, Action at a Distance

Stir Q&A: Plastic pollution and human toxicity swirl in Kinesis somatheatro's new Noxious

Choreographer Paras Terezakis talks Pacific gyres, microplastics, extremism, and the open dialogue that can happen in a studio

Dance review: Persian poetry drives intense cross-cultural Chutzpah Festival offering

Alexis Fletcher and Arash Khakpour make a compelling duo, as All my being is a dark verse builds an atmospheric visual world

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022Chutpah Festival, Alexis Fletcher, Arash Khakpour

Throe brings human frailty and struggle to Corporeal Imago’s atmospheric new aerial-dance hybrid

Cirque-trained, Vancouver-based Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes strive to create something deeper than spectacle

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022circus, Corporeal Imageo, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Homepage feature

Dance review: Alexander Ekman's Play proves to be a gorgeous delight

Created for the Paris Opera Ballet, the work is having its Canadian streaming premiere

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 9, 2022DanceHouse, Digidance, Paris Opera Ballet, ballet, dance, Homepage feature

Dance review: Hourglass is a poignant exploration of passing time

Wooden chairs, breathtaking honesty, and Philip Glass’s 20 Piano Études

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 7, 2022Chutzpah Festival, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, Leslie Dala

Dance review: Striking imagery as Shion Skye Carter crafts a reverie through paper and ink

Program features innovative work from the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award-winner, as well as soloist Juolin Lee

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 7, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Kinesis Dance somatheatro's Noxious, November 16 to 19

New dance work explores pollution of both Planet Earth and the mind

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 6, 2022Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

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

Alexis Fletcher and Arash Khakpour find an intimate new dance language at the Chutzpah! Festival

Inspired by Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, their All my being is a dark verse resonates amid women’s calls for freedom in Iran

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 4, 2022Chutzpah Festival, Alexis Fletcher, Arash Khakpour

Hourglass comes to fruition with a full journey through Philip Glass's Piano Études, at the Chutzpah! Festival November 5 and 6

Leslie Dala is at the keyboard while eight dancers take the stage

FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRING, DANCEJanet SmithNovember 2, 2022Chutzpah Festival, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance

Dance artist Shion Skye Carter reconnects with calligraphy and her Japanese culture in Residuals (住み・墨)

Translucent paper, brushlike movement, and memories of her grandparents’ traditional house drive the choreographer-performer’s new work

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 1, 2022Shion Skye Carter, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

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