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Festival du Bois spotlights Acadian sounds, Métis culture, all-ages fun & more, March 8 to 10

Event marks 35 years at Coquitlam’s Mackin Park with a weekend lineup that includes contra dancing, Métis jigging, and more

FESTS, DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 22, 2024Partner Content, Festival du Bois, Francophone, Spring 2024

Stir Q&A: Vancouver International Dance Festival's Virginie Brunelle talks about strings, artificial grass, and beauty

The Quebec artist’s Les corps avalés, performed live with the Molinari Quartet, explores human fragility with intense musicality

New Works shares fresh XR programming in the Short Circuit Series, March 15 to 17

Extended reality-dance offerings include workshops, panel conversations, and a community mixer

DANCE, SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 22, 2024Partner Content, New Works, Spring 2024

Four free and low-cost shows take place at 24th annual Vancouver International Dance Festival

Audiences can check out Modus Operandi, Ferenc Fehér, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, and VIDF Jazz Jams from February 25 to March 9

Matriarchs Uprising Festival showcases Indigenous contemporary-dance excellence, February 19 to 25

Annual festival features all-women lineup with performances from Raven Spirit Dance, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Louise Pōtiki Bryant, and more

Dance artist Elle Sofe Sara draws on Sámiland roots in Vástádus eana – The answer is land

The choreographer who spends her summers reindeer herding with her family creates a piece that integrates joiking, megaphones, and proud red hats

Emerging Artists of Ballet BC and New Coast Players come together for Absence; Creation, February 17

Ballet by Jack Campbell and Antony Knight makes its world premiere at Arts Umbrella

Ballet BC presents NOW from March 7 to 9 in Vancouver, celebrating West Coast women creators

Program that lands on International Women’s Day includes return of Crystal Pite’s The Statement along with two highly anticipated world premieres

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2024Partner Content, Ballet BC

Vancouver International Dance Festival presents solo works by Conan Amok and Tony Chong, March 6 to 9

Amok showcases butoh work The Folds, while Chong dances Le Collectif RNTF’s multidisciplinary piece Invisible 无形

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 9, 2024Partner Content, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Renaissance sculpture inspires Voirelia Dance Hub’s De/Formed Revival, February 29

Contemporary piece is presented as part of The Dance Centre’s Discover Dance! noon-hour series

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 8, 2024Partner Content, The Dance Centre

Ballet Jörgen brings a beloved Canadian classic to life with Anne of Green Gables – The Ballet

Choreographer Bengt Jörgen breathes new life into Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel with an original ballet starring Hannah Mae Cruddas as Anne

DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 5, 2024Ballet Jorgen, Massey Theatre

Dance review: In Les SUBS' Pli, paper is a jumpsuit, a tug-of-war rope, and a vessel for the seemingly impossible

At PuSh Festival, artists play off themes of strength and fragility by using paper for aerial stunts

PuSh Festival's final week closes with PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s 15th Anniversary Series

Copresentation of DARKMATTER and L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie celebrates milestone for SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs

DanceHouse and Dancers of Damelahamid present Elle Sofe Sara's Vástádus eana – The answer is land, February 23 and 24

Sámi choreographer-filmmaker’s new work is inspired by activism and Indigenous spiritual practices

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 29, 2024Partner Content, DanceHouse, Dancers of Damelahamid

Review: Gravity & Other Myths' The Mirror creates a sophisticated yet saucy cabaret of physical feats

Receiving a wild standing O, Aussie company ups its own game to create a fun, finely orchestrated flow of ever-shifting human towers and sculptures

DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 25, 2024Gravity & Other Myths, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Homepage feature

In DARKMATTER, Brussels-based dance artist Cherish Menzo seeks to detach bodies from biased perceptions

PuSh Festival duet with Camilo Mejía Cortés plays with distortion through a hip-hop music technique, rap-anthem choir, black paint, and more

Review: With humour and honesty, Rakesh Sukesh's because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) digs into complexities of discrimination and immigration

Free-associative stories and dance stitched loosely together to match ginormous sari tapestry that unfurls in Indian Summer Festival/PuSh Festival/The Cultch show

Vancouver International Dance Festival presents Catherine Gaudet’s Se dissoudre, February 28 to March 2

Solo danced by Marie-Philippe Santerre explores sensations of dissolving and solitude

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 23, 2024Partner Content, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Belgium-based Indian dancer Rakesh Sukesh draws upon a personal encounter of racism, January 22 to 24

Artist’s Indian Summer Festival/PuSh Festival solo because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) was a close collaboration with award-winning Vancouver playwright Marcus Youssef