Ballet BC is Gather’in online
Since announcing the cancellation of the remainder of its 2019-2020 season due to COVD-19, Ballet BC has been busy offstage, looking for an opportunity...
Helen Walkley & Paras Terezakis are this year’s BC Dance Awards recipients
Dance artist Helen Walkley and Kinesis Dance somatheatro's artistic director Paras Terezakis are this year's recipients of the BC Dance Awards. "These are trying times...
Hip-hop meets contemporary dance in RUBBERBAND’s Ever So Slightly
In its first outing with Vancouver dance presenter DanceHouse, Montreal's RUBBERBAND will perform Ever So Slightly, a hybrid mix of urban hip-hop and contemporary...
Dance review: Comedia 2020 misses an emotional connection
Comedia 2020 tells the story of Dante’s Inferno through a one-woman mime performance by Yayoi Hirano. It seems as though it was important to...
Brazil’s Grupo Corpo returns with a double-bill
In its third outing with local dance presenter DanceHouse, the Brazilian contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo returns in a two-part program with the Vancouver...
Coastal Dance Festival looks to the future
The 2020 Coastal Dance Festival is expanding and looking to the future in its thirteenth year of presenting Canadian and global Indigenous stories, song,...
Dance review: Tentacle Tribe breathes life into Ghosts
Choreographers Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund, who dance alongside Céline Richard-Robichon, Mecdy Jean-Pierre, Erika Nguyen and Rahime Gay-Labbé in Ghosts, use the breath...
Anne of Green Gables goes to the ballet
When one thinks of Canada, images of beavers, poutine, and Drake may be at the top of your list, but you would be hard-pressed...
Contemporary and street dance combine with martial arts in Tentacle Tribe’s Ghost
With elements of contemporary and street dance alongside martial arts, it is this unique combination that sets Montreal's Tentacle Tribe apart from other dance...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo’s twisted takes on classical ballet favourites may very...
Since the founding of the New York-based Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Trocks) in 1974, the original concept for the company has remained unchanged:...