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Ballet BC dancers ride wild worlds of sound, sun, and genre-crossing styles in premieres on the NOW program

Choreographers Micaela Taylor and Tiffany Tregarthen revel in working with a company that’s hungry for new challenges

Vancouver New Music presents Parallel 06: Ioana Vreme Moser, March 16

Berlin-based Romanian sound artist hosts Screaming Minerals concert exploring the decay of information technologies

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 28, 2024Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Spring 2024

In Jade Circle, Jasmine Chen explores themes of family and connection in both Mandarin and English

Performance weaves together dance and theatre as artist unveils the story of her late grandmother

WONDERHEADS brings physical theatre show The Wilds to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on March 17

Award-winning wordless production features signature masks, whimsical puppetry, and enchanting music

THEATREStir VancouverFebruary 28, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Spring 2024

With Festival du Bois' Podorythmie, folk songs meet stepdancing, limberjacks, and—yes—crankies

If you’re not quite sure what all those are, read on in our interview with the cross-border quintet of fiddlers, guitarists, and accordion players

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 27, 2024Festival du Bois, Acadian, Spring 2023, Spring 2024

DanceHouse showcases Vancouver premiere of Côté Danse’s X (Dix), March 22 and 23

Striking study of universal longing for home is inspired by Odysseus’ epic journey in Homer’s The Odyssey

DANCEStir VancouverFebruary 27, 2024Partner Content, DanceHouse, Spring 2024, Côté Danse

Wearing leather hoods, dancers learn to "see without seeing" in FakeKnot's whip

In daring duet at VIDF, Ralph Escamillan explores the limits of trust with Daria Mikhaylyuk

DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 26, 2024Ralph Escamillan, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival, FakeKnot

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts Royal Wood and Jeffery Straker in The Piano Men Tour, March 13

Award-winning Canadian musicians deliver unique sounds and emotional storytelling

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 26, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Spring 2024

Voirelia Dance Hub's De/Formed Revival makes Renaissance sculptures move at The Dance Centre lunch series, February 29

Art history, psychology, dance, and philosophy all interweave in a piece about transformation

DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 26, 2024Voirelia Dance Hub, DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre

Mezzo Marion Newman stars as explorer Isabelle Eberhardt, in Song From the Uproar, February 29 to March 3 at the York Theatre

City Opera stages Canadian premiere of composer Missy Mazzoli’s contemporary work

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 26, 2024City Opera, Marion Newman, opera

Dance review: Mesmerizing Sámi voices drive Elle Sofe Sara work—inside and outside Vancouver Playhouse

Contemporary-dance show claims space, shepherds audiences in Vástádus eana – The answer is land.

DANCEJanet SmithFebruary 24, 2024DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Dancers of Damelahamid, Vancouver Civic Theatres

VAM Symphony Orchestra expresses all the moods of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, February 25 and March 3

Maestro Ian Parker conducts concert of work that follows composer’s journey from melancholy to euphoria

North Van Arts' annual Art Rental Show opens February 24, with over 350 artworks

Visitors to the salon-style exhibition can choose to rent or buy diverse works made by more than 150 artists

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverFebruary 23, 2024Partner Content, North Van Arts, Art Rental Show, Spring 2024

Justin Adams and Mauro Durante's music migrates fluidly from Middle East to Puglia, and beyond

The electric guitarist and violinist-percussionist, set to hit the BlueShore at CapU, bring their diverse influences together in blues that transcend borders

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 22, 2024BlueShore at CapU

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

Work Different documentary looks at the shift to working from home from all angles

Making its Vancouver premiere at Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, Julien Capraro’s new NFB movie assesses the good, the bad, and the ugly of the emerging laptop-and-sweatpants generation