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In Conversation
In Conversation
5/23 - 5/24/2024


The Dance Centre presents Canadian tap dance artist Danny Nielsen’s In Conversation , a collaboration with renowned pianist/percussionist Kristian Alexandrov which delves into the symbiotic ...


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The Dance Centre Presents Tap Dancer Danny Nielsen's In Conversation


by A.A. Cristi - April 30, 2024

The Dance Centre will present the Global Dance Connections series featuring Danny Nielsen In Conversation (world premiere) on Thursday-Friday May 23-24, 2024. ...

World Premiere of The Falling Company's FAMILY ROOM to be Presented by The Dance Centre in April


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 19, 2024

Experience the world premiere of FAMILY ROOM by The Falling Company, a dance theatre piece choreographed by Marissa Wong. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets. ...

The Dance Centre Presents ACHE BRASIL This Month


by A.A. Cristi - March 01, 2024

Experience the vibrant culture and rhythms of Brazil with Aché Brasil at The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! series....

The Dance Centre to Present Hip Hop Innovators Ebnflōh This Month


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 08, 2023

Ebnflōh's 'La Probabilité du Néant' explores the fine line between spectator and accomplice in extreme situations. This powerful and urgent creation by Montreal's Ebnflōh combines hip hop dance, electrifying music, and video to highlight resilience and resistance....

The Dance Centre Presents The World Premiere Of Stand Up Dance's ANATOMALIA: ANATOMY + ANOMALY + FEMALIA


by A.A. Cristi - October 20, 2023

The Dance Centre presents Stand Up Dance's Anatomalia, a world premiere that explores anatomy, anomaly, and femalia. This immersive performance celebrates survival, recovery, and collective healing. ...

The Dancing on the Edge Festival of Contemporary Dance Returns for its 35th Year


by Stephi Wild - May 26, 2023

One of the most eagerly anticipated events in British Columbia's contemporary dance scene, the 35th anniversary of the Dancing on the Edge Festival will kick off on July 6th. Festival Producer, Donna Spencer, is delighted that Canada's oldest and longest running contemporary dance festival, will hos...

The Dance Centre And Théâtre La Seizième Present HILLEL KOGAN: WE LOVE ARABS, April 13-15


by A.A. Cristi - March 01, 2023

The Dance Centre and Théâtre La Seizième present HILLEL KOGAN: WE LOVE ARABS, April 13-15, 2023 at Scotiabank Dance Centre....

Artists Announced for PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2023


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 23, 2022

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) will present its 19th annual edition from January 19 to February 5, 2023 at various venues across the Lower Mainland and select programming online....

The Dance Centre Presents World Premiere Of The Global Dance Connections Series THROE


by A.A. Cristi - October 05, 2022

An exciting world premiere from Corporeal Imago, Throe explores our interdependence in an inhospitable world through a stunning intersection of aerial acrobatics, contemporary dance, and visual theatre. ...

Flamenco Rosario Presents Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, September 3-25, 2022


by A.A. Cristi - July 25, 2022

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival's 32nd edition announces its 2022 lineup of local, national and international flamenco artists from September 3– 25. ...

Past Shows

Night Is The Mother


The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! noon series features an exciting new dance theatre work by Dance//Novella. Founded by former Ballet BC artists Racheal Prince ...

Aché Brasil


The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! noon series features Aché Brasil. The company will demonstrate folkloric Afro-Brazilian dances and music, including the famous dance-martial art ...

If You Could See Me Now
If You Could See Me Now
3/14 - 3/16/2024


Incessant movement, propulsive music, stunning light: Dutch choreographer Arno Schuitemaker’s If You Could See Me Now is a mesmerising experience. Three powerful performers take a ...

Voirelia Dance Hub


The Dance Centre’s Discover Dance! noon series features Voirelia Dance Hub , an innovative Vancouver company whose original contemporary dance works draw on psychology, philosophy ...

Open Stage #4


The fourth edition of Open Stage features a program of exciting and varied dance works by CollabArt Creations, Francesca Vergara, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis & James-Amzin Nahirnick, ...

Ramanenjana
Ramanenjana
1/19 - 1/21/2024


The Dance Centre presents Ramanenjana , a docufiction performance about a ‘dance epidemic’ which swept Madagascar in 1863. Created by Simona Deaconescu (Romania) and Gaby ...

La Probabilité du Néant
La Probabilité du Néant
12/7 - 12/9/2023


The Dance Centre presents Montreal’s Ebnflh, a company acclaimed for powerful works which are deeply rooted in hip hop dance and culture.  Choreographed by Artistic ...

Anatomalia: anatomy + anomaly + femalia


An exciting world premiere created by Berlin-based queer Canadian choreographer Meagan O’Shea, Anatomalia is an adventurous international collaboration, and a passionate collective healing of the ...

Calle Verde + Jhoely Triana Flamenco


The November edition of The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! noon series highlights the art of flamenco with an exciting double bill of works by ...

Classical Indian Dances in Focus


The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! series features two beautiful and contrasting styles of classical Indian dance, famed for their intricate movements, percussive rhythms and ...

The African Dream


Rwandan-born Isaac Gasangwa (aka Izo Dreamchaser) founded Afrobeats Van to connect audiences to African culture and history. The African Dream follows the life of a ...

Open Stage #3


From flamenco and contemporary dance to bharata natyam, Open Stage features a program of exciting and varied dance works by Lili Flamenco/Liat Har Lev, Kiruthika ...

Lamondance
Lamondance
4/20


The April edition of The Dance Centre’s Discover Dance! series features Lamondance in a program of vibrant contemporary works. Known as an exceptional contemporary dance ...

We Love Arabs
We Love Arabs
4/13 - 4/15/2023


Israeli choreographer Hillel Kogan’s award-winning duet We Love Arabs dives headlong into the toughest of questions – how can we co-exist within conflict? Somewhere in ...

Spirit and Tradition


The internationally-renowned Indigenous dance company Dancers of Damelahamid brings its rich and compelling work to the stage for the March edition of The Dance Centre’s ...

LONTANO + INSTANTE
LONTANO + INSTANTE
1/26 - 1/29/2023


For these two dazzling shows, Juan Ignacio Tula and Marica Marinoni start with a simple concept: one human being plus a large aluminum ring called ...

Never Twenty One
Never Twenty One
1/19 - 1/21/2023


The Dance Centre and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present Smail Kanouté/Compagnie Vivons! in Never Twenty One . Kanouté is a French-Malian dancer, choreographer, film ...

You Touch Me
You Touch Me
12/8 - 12/10/2022


An exciting world premiere created by Vancouver-based choreographers Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson,  You Touch Me  weaves an intricate web of duets within an ensemble ...

Discover Dance! Karen Flamenco Dance Company


Vancouver’s innovative Karen Flamenco Dance Company brings the brilliance and passion of flamenco to the stage for the November edition of The Dance Centre’s Discover ...

Corporeal Imago: Throe
Corporeal Imago: Throe
11/17 - 11/19/2022


An exciting world premiere from Corporeal Imago, Throe explores our interdependence in an inhospitable world through a stunning intersection of aerial acrobatics, contemporary dance, and ...

Residuals (住み・墨)
Residuals (住み・墨)
11/4 - 11/5/2022


Created and performed by the award-winning young choreographer Shion Skye Carter, Residuals () is a captivating solo which draws visual, sonic, and physical influences from ...

Discover Dance! VanVogueJam


The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! noon hour series opens with VanVogueJam (VVJ), highlighting artists from the Vancouver Kiki Ballroom Scene. Ball culture emerged in ...

Compagnie d’Autres Cordes – Franck Vigroux: Forêt


Conceived by French composer/artist Franck Vigroux, Fort creates a dazzling universe through dance, music, sound and video. A solo dancer undertakes a mesmerising journey: hypnotic ...

Justine A. Chambers + Laurie Young: One hundred more


One hundred more is urgently informed by our current socio-political climate, which has produced a groundswell of bodies resisting and moving in collective anger. This ...

Kisiskâciwan
Kisiskâciwan
9/30 - 10/1/2022


An exciting world premiere from choreographer Jeanette Kotowich, Kisiskciwan is a creative return to the fast-flowing landscape of Saskatchewan, the robust and undulating land of ...

The Dance Centre presents the 21st annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House


From Bollywood, bhangra and Mtis jigging to K-pop and tap, the annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House offers the chance to sample a host of ...

glint
glint
7/14 - 7/16/2022


glint is a triple bill with new works by Erika Mitsuhashi, Francesca Frewer, and Alexa Mardon. Each piece is in a different stage of completion, ...

The Days
The Days
6/24 - 6/25/2022


The Days is an intimate duet created by English choreographer Theo Clinkard in collaboration with the Finnish dancers Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen. Caught in ...

Rebel Grace
Rebel Grace
5/12 - 5/14/2022


The Dance Centre presents an exciting world premiere from choreographer Ziyian Kwan. Rebel Grace explores gentle transgressions as acts of resistance, empowerment and gratitude, through ...

International Dance Day events


The Dance Centre presents a day of free events, both live and online, celebrating the art of dance for International Dance Day. Highlights include Shot ...

Open Stage #2


Open Stage features dance works spanning a varied range of styles and approaches by Anya Saugstad and Artists, Lamondance, Linda Hayes, and Rachel Maddock....

Discover Dance! All Bodies Dance Project


All Bodies Dance Project brings together artists with and without disabilities to explore the endless creative potential of difference, in a program of beautiful, moving ...

Daina Ashbee
Daina Ashbee
3/9 - 3/12/2022


J'ai pleur avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction), Daina Ashbees latest work, unfolds like a ritual celebration dedicated to the body. In a minimalist landscape ...

MAYDAY: La Goddam Voie Lactée 


La Goddam Voie Lacteby Montreals Mlanie Demers is a response to the harshness of the world: a pagan mass, both celebration and challenge. Five women ...

Ne. Sans Opera & Dance/Idan Cohen


The January edition of The Dance Centres Discover Dance! series features the innovative reconnection of music and contemporary dance by Ne. Sans Opera & Dance. ...

V’ni Dansi’s Louis Riel Métis Dancers


The Dance Centres Discover Dance! series celebrates the rhythms and images of the Mtis spirit in a joyful program featuring the Louis Riel Mtis Dancers. ...

V’ni Dansi’s Louis Riel Métis Dancers


The Dance Centres Discover Dance! series celebrates the rhythms and images of the Mtis spirit in a joyful program featuring the Louis Riel Mtis Dancers. ...

Discover Dance! Arno Kamolika


Choreographer and dancer Arno Kamolika specializes in the classical Indian style of bharatanatyam. This beautiful and expressive form draws on poetry, music, mythology and spirituality, ...

Discover Dance! Goh Ballet
Discover Dance! Goh Ballet
6/3 - 6/17/2021


The exciting dancers of the internationally-renowned Goh Ballet perform for the digital June edition of The Dance Centres popular Discover Dance! series. Featuring members of ...

TWObigsteps Collective: Departure


Marissa Wong and Katie Cassady premiere a pair of expressive new contemporary dance works exploring relationships and emotions in Departure. Wongs solo, also titled Departure, ...

Kinesis Dance somatheatro: Debris


Debris is a contemporary dance work inspired by the increasing urgency of pollution and its contribution to the climate crisis. In this online studio sharing, ...

PROXIMITY - a collection of short works


Internationally-acclaimed Canadian choreographer and performer Joshua Beamish shares a program of beautifully crafted contemporary dance in PROXIMITY a collection of short works, with choreography by ...

Chartier Danse
4/25 - 4/27/2013


Stria is the latest solo work by the award-winning and versatile choreographer/performer Marie-Josée Chartier, and is inspired by the beautiful and unpredictable terrain of the ...

The Ligeti Project
4/18 - 4/20/2013


The music of the great Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti provides the starting point for this exciting new collaboration between contemporary choreographer Martha Carter and the ...

Joe Ink
3/6 - 3/9/2013


Choreographer Joe Laughlin revisits some of his most popular works in an evening celebrating 25 years of making quirky, lyrical and imaginative dance. Harold, Billy, ...

Body-Scan 2
2/14 - 2/16/2013


Body-Scan 2 is choreographed and performed by Montreal’s Benoît Lachambre and battery opera’s Su-Feh Lee, two exceptional artists renowned for pushing the boundaries of contemporary ...

Still Standing You
1/29 - 2/2/2013


The incendiary Belgian-Portuguese duo Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido burst on to the European dance scene five years ago and they have toured internationally to ...

Haptic + Holistic Strata
1/25 - 1/27/2013


Hiroaki Umeda is one of Japan's most exciting artists, bringing together light, sound and movement with astonishing force and style. Haptic plays with the sensation ...

Cédric Andrieux
1/18 - 1/20/2012


The slyly brilliant work of Jérôme Bel returns to Vancouver with a beautifully spare and poetic evening of dance and autobiographical storytelling, created in collaboration ...

Videos


Cinderella in Vancouver Cinderella
Jack and Darlene Poole Theatre at Arts Umbrella (5/25 - 6/2)
The Papa Penguin Play in Vancouver The Papa Penguin Play
Waterfront Theatre (5/15 - 6/2)
In Conversation in Vancouver In Conversation
Scotiabank Dance Centre (5/23 - 5/24)
That's gay! comedy – a queer comedy show in Vancouver That's gay! comedy – a queer comedy show
Little Mountain Gallery (5/18 - 5/18)
Opera Mariposa's Benefit + Awareness Month in Vancouver Opera Mariposa's Benefit + Awareness Month
Opera Mariposa (5/1 - 6/1)
Back From the Dead in Vancouver Back From the Dead
The Shop Theatre (7/24 - 7/27)
The Freedom of the City in Vancouver The Freedom of the City
Jericho Arts Centre (5/3 - 5/19)
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