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Arts Umbrella's festive Mixed Nuts returns to the Vancouver Playhouse, December 12 to 14

This spin on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker features a flavoursome assortment of styles, ranging from classical ballet to hip hop

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 14, 2025Partner Content, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, Mixed Nuts, Holiday 2025

MOSAÏCO unites diverse dance and cultural backgrounds with kaleidoscopic projections

Quebecois choreographer Audrey Gaussiran’s work tours to Alliance Française Vancouver’s V-Unframed and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Stir Q&A: At the Chutzpah! Festival, Australian duo’s Common Place taps into the magic of partnerwork

Dancers Omer Backley-Astrachan and Jana Castillo explore the importance of connection and trust

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 10, 2025chutzpah! festival, Chutzpah! Festival, Chutzpah Festival

Dance review: Stunning group work drives Ballet BC’s high-energy TRILOGY

Company looks sharp across opening program of eclectic, full-throttle LILA, mysterious SWAY, and epic BOLERO X

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 9, 2025BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Created with survivor testimonials, The Mush Hole tells the truth about Canada’s longest-running residential school

Renowned Indigenous choreographer Santee Smith brings her haunting yet hopeful piece to The Cultch and Urban Ink’s TRANSFORM Festival

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 7, 2025the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Urban Ink Theatre, Transform Festival, Santee Smith

Goh Ballet's The Nutcracker brings magic and merriment to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, December 18 to 21

Presented by RBC, production features more than 250 performers and a live Tchaikovsky score played by members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 6, 2025Partner Content, Goh Ballet, Nutcracker, Holiday 2025

Alliance Française Vancouver hosts Audrey Gaussiran’s vibrant MOSAÏCO, November 20

Production explores identity as the dancers’ movements influence a highly reactive digital projection onstage

From contortion to krumping, OUROFEST shines a spotlight on form-pushing street dance

OURO Collective’s second annual festival features mainstage performances at Massey Theatre by the likes of TARANTISM and RubberLegz

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 4, 2025Ouro Collective, OUROFEST, Massey Theatre, Homepage feature

Royal Winnipeg Ballet's distinctly Canadian Nutcracker returns to Vancouver, December 12 to 14

Presented by Ballet BC at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the production puts a fantastical twist on the classic story, all set to Tchaikovsky’s score

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 31, 2025Partner Content, Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Nutcracker, Holiday 2025, Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Movement and emotion fuse with wide-ranging influences in rising dance artist Sofia Nappi’s unique style

Ahead of a premiere at Ballet BC’s TRILOGY, the fast-rising Italian-born choreographer reflects on a creative journey that began locally and led her around the globe

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 30, 2025BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Oscar: Homage to the Rebel Maestro of Flamenco honours a dance luminary’s extraordinary legacy

Co-producer Lia Grainger reflects on the storied life of Oscar Nieto, who helped establish flamenco’s presence in Vancouver

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 29, 2025Oscar Nieto, flamenco, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, Caravan World Rhythms, Lia Grainger

Audrey Gaussiran brings culturally diverse piece MOSAÏCO to the Shadbolt Centre, November 21 and 22

Dance and digital art combine onstage with a colourful projection that reacts to the movements of five dancers

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 28, 2025Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Shadbolt Centre

All-Indigenous burlesque collective Virago Nation performs at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, November 4

Seven artists are on an empowering mission to reclaim Indigenous sexuality from the effects of colonization

Taiwan's internationally acclaimed Hung Dance brings Birdy to Vancouver care of DanceHouse, November 28 and 29

The anticipated performance, a captivating cry for freedom, marks the first time DanceHouse presents a Taiwanese work

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 27, 2025Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE

OUROFEST brings electrifying street dance to Massey Theatre, November 14 and 15

Mainstage performances presented by OURO Collective include Greece’s TARANTISM, German-American B-boy RubberLegz, and more

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 22, 2025Partner Content, Ouro Collective, New Works, OUROFEST, Massey Theatre

In Anne Plamondon’s Myokine, seven dancers serve as messengers of hope

Montreal choreographer’s post-pandemic piece, inspired by a type of molecule secreted by moving bodies, comes to the Firehall Arts Centre

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 22, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, Anne Plamondon, Homepage feature

Royal Winnipeg Ballet unveils 2026 B.C. tour culminating in Vancouver with Carmina Burana and T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods

Exhilarating double bill featuring a virtuosic classic and a historic West Coast premiere lands here February 9 and 10, 2026

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 22, 2025Partner Content, Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Ballet BC Annex brings world premieres by Alexis Fletcher and Vanessa Goodman to the Shadbolt Centre, November 9

Junior company features eight dancers training with Modus Operandi and Arts Umbrella Dance Company

Kinesthesia: Body as Form celebrates the power of dance at Surrey Art Gallery, October 25 to December 14

New exhibition and performance series opens with WTM / What’s the Move? art party featuring Lucy M. May, ĀNANDAM dance theatre, and more

Daniel Léveillé's Amour, acide et noix finds a staying power in skin and sinew

At DanceHouse, the Montreal artist resurrects a piece whose stripped-down expression is still touring after 23 years

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 17, 2025DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, Vancouver Civic Theatres

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