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Invoking an Alchemy of Transformation: Gabrielle Martin talks curating with care at this year's PuSh Festival

In a statement ahead of the festival, director of programming reflects on compiling “works that share a sense of cultural urgency”

Gravity & Other Myths' The Mirror pushes the limits of human endurance

Australian company draws on circus arts and dance for its high-flying work soon having its North American premiere in Vancouver

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2024DanceHouse, dance, Homepage feature

Hold On Let Go performances disrupt conventions, push forms—and put unexpected objects at centre stage

Theatre Replacement and Company 605’s renamed and ever-growing series gathers experimental works at Russian Hall

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024Theatre Replacement, Company 605, Maiko Yamamoto

Montréal’s Compagnie Virginie Brunelle headlines just-announced 2024 Vancouver International Dance Festival

Running February 25 to March 9, Kokoro Dance event also features FakeKnot’s whip, Ferenc Fehér’s Disco Boys, Tony Chong’s Invisible, and more

TomoeArts closes the curtain with program commemorating legacy of late artistic director Colleen Lanki, January 20

Fifteen Years of Dream features performances by company’s closest collaborators over its 15-year run, in honour of Japanese classical dance master Lanki

DANCE, MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024TomoeArts

Paper becomes a playground in Pli, at the PuSh Festival

The copresentation with Chutzpah! Festival sees paper used as an aerial rope, a dance partner, and more

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 15, 2024PuSh Festival, Chutzpah! Festival, circus, Homepage feature

Romania's Tangaj Collective explores "choreomania" and microbiology at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

Ramanenjana takes a witty look back at a real mass-dance event in Madagascar, while BLOT – Body Line of Thought cultivates real bacteria

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg explores gender identity in PANTS

The dancer-actor-comedian employs movement and a fierce sense of humour to get at serious subjects

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 10, 2024Firehall Arts Centre, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, dance, Homepage feature

With Returns, Nellie Gossen stitches together a 30-day performance around fashion labour, waste, and retail

As part of PuSh Festival at Scotiabank Dance Centre, performers disassemble clothing items, sew them into ever-shifting sculptural pieces, and then return them to original forms

The Runner and Dear Laila invite critical engagement at this year's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

One piece highlights a dilemma between impulse and socially imposed morals, while the other offers perspective on forced displacement

In mind-bending trio Dog Rising, Clara Furey explores contactless shocks and hypnotic repetition

Plastic orchid factory presentation features an electro-immersive soundtrack and red-tinged lighting

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 4, 2024plastic orchid factory, Roundhouse Community Centre

Massey Theatre presents Ballet Jörgen’s Anne of Green Gables – The Ballet, February 10

Lively, heartfelt production based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel features original choreography by Bengt Jörgen

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 4, 2024Partner Content, Massey Theatre, Ballet Jorgen

Gravity & Other Myths performs glorious circus-dance spectacle The Mirror, January 24 to 27

Co-presentation of Australian company by The Cultch and DanceHouse pairs skill with gravity-defying acrobatics

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 2, 2024Partner Content, the Cultch, DanceHouse

Cascading sand and warbling strings: A few standout moments from 2023's stage and gallery scene

Random memorable scenes from the year in arts span 50 dancers swirling in BOLERO X, a powerful Julius Caesar speech, and a cello star’s finale with local string students