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Circus arts see a raw and dreamlike new twist in O'DD and Lontano + Instante at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Finland’s Race Horse Company conjures an eerie sci-fi universe, while La Compagnie 7Bis spins the Cyr wheel in metaphorical new ways

DANCE, THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2023circus, PuSh Festival, DANCE CENTRE

Review: Circa's Sacre builds dark beauty out of its dance-acrobatic hybrid

At The Cultch and DanceHouse, Aussie company slow-builds to a frantic climax of bodies bending, tangling, and lifting in kaleidoscopic formations

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2023Circa, DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, The Cultch, THE CULTCH

Massey Theatre presents Ballet Jörgen Canada’s Cinderella

The contemporary take on the classic fairy tale features innovative, dramatic sensibilities

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2023Partner Content, Massey Theatre

Never Twenty One pushes beyond gun violence into Black identity and creativity

Presented by the PuSh fest and Dance Centre, Smaïl Kanouté’s intense dance work draws on his own quest to connect with Afro communities around the world

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2023DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, PuSh Festival, Homepage feature

Kokoro Dance performs with musicians Tony Wilson, Joe Williamson, and Kai Basanta, January 13

Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi team up with jazz artists for the KW Production Studio show

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2023Kokoro Dance, Jay Hirabayashi

Through circus, Sacre reinvents Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Australian contemporary-circus company Circa turns the ground-breaking work on its head

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 10, 2023DanceHouse, The Cultch, circus, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Dance Victoria announces 2023 Chrystal Dance Prize for Julia Taffe, Shion Skye Carter, and Amber Downie-Black

Annual award supports work that collaborates on an international level

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2023Dance Victoria, Aeriosa, Julia Taffe, Shion Skye Carter, Chrystal Dance Prize

Dancehouse's Digidance 2022-23 season closes with Batsheva Dance Company, online January 9 to 29

Ohad Naharin seeks out new ways to create and experience dance

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 8, 2023Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Digidance

DanceHouse and The Cultch bring Australia’s mighty Circa to Vancouver, January 17 to 21

Sacre’s acrobats display the raw strength of circus

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 3, 2023Partner Content, DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse

2022 in review: A few of the year's most memorable moments in Vancouver performing and visual arts

Cyborg ballet, multisensory percussion, and a chorus of singing ghosts were just some of 2022’s highlights

Arts Umbrella School of Dance announces 2023 International Auditions Tour

The showcases are aimed at those interested in attending this year’s summer intensive as well as post-secondary programs

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 15, 2022Partner Content, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

Dance Victoria presents Out Innerspace Dance Theatre's Bygones on January 13, as part of Dance Days festival

Vancouver company’s optical illusions, cutting-edge choreography, and cinematic elements keep audience in suspense

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 14, 2022Partner Content, Dance Victoria, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre

DanceHouse and Hawthorne Foundation launch $10,000 Louise Bentall Award for Emerging B.C. Choreographers

Biennial prize pays tribute to memory of late arts supporter, who passed away in 2017

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithDecember 13, 2022DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, Louise Bentall

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

Emmalena Fredriksson and Arash Khakpour's You Touch Me plays with connection through both spoken and body languages

New dance work explores identity, connection, and migration through ensemble’s multitude of mother tongues

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 6, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Arash Khakpour

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

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