Mary-Louise Albert returns to her dance roots
What do you do after leading one of Vancouver's premier arts festivals for fifteen years? If you are Mary-Louise Albert, you return to your...
Margaret Grenier receives the 2020 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts
In a media release, Dancers of Damelahamid has announced choreographer, dance artist and the company's executive and artistic director Margaret Grenier has been awarded...
Meet Ballet BC’s rising stars
Ballet BC will welcome six dancers as part of its 2020-2021 emerging artist program.
The annual program provides an opportunity for the artists to work...
Meet six of Canada’s rising opera stars
Vancouver Opera will welcome a half-dozen rising stars to this year's Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program.
Designed to be a bridge between formal educational...
Dancing on the Edge in the age of COVID-19
Having run uninterrupted for 31 years, Canada's longest-running contemporary dance festival isn't going to let the pandemic stop them. Instead, this year's Dancing on...
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...
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...