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Dance review: At PuSh Festival, Lontano + Instante put fresh new spin on circus arts

Vancouver audiences have never witnessed anything like the way the Cyr wheel turns in works by la Compagnie 7Bis from France

DANCE, FESTSGail JohnsonJanuary 27, 2023PuSh Festival, circus, review, dance review, reviews

DanceHouse and Vancouver New Music team up to present Broken Chord

Featuring one dancer, four vocal soloists, and an onstage a cappella chorus, the epic work runs from February 23 to 25

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2023Partner Content

At PuSh Festival, Le Cri des Méduses transports haunting French painting to the stage

Quebec City’s Alan Lake Factorie blends dance, theatre, visual art, and cinema in its founder’s interpretation of a grisly 1819 masterpiece

FESTS, DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 24, 2023PuSh Festival, dance, Quebec, Alan Lake, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Dance review: Never Twenty One builds an intense new dance language out of African diaspora

At the PuSh Festival, Smail Kanouté’s thought-provoking new work interweaves spoken testimonials, graffitied bodies, and a mix of street-dance languages

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2023PuSh Festival, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

TomoeArts artistic director and Japanese classical dance master Colleen Lanki passes away

She brought her passion for Noh theatre and nihon buyoh to Vancouver

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2023TomoeArts

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