Upcoming Shows
The Dance Centre and Vancouver International Dance Festival present Canadian choreographer Ame Henderson and Croatian director Matija Ferlin in Show Gone, a new duet which plays with...
by Alyson Eng - February 14, 2026
A telephone, a key, and a carefully timed call. DIAL M FOR MURDER wastes no time laying out its stakes. At the Stanley BFL Canada Stage, the Arts Club Theatre Company presents Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of the classic thriller, directed by Jillian Keiley and running February 5 to March 8. In par...
by Alyson Eng - January 24, 2026
There is nothing that signals MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL faster than the words, “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?” From the show's opening moments, the production strongly announced its arrival in Vancouver, BC with confidence and attitude. This week, Broadway Across Canada brought the 10...
by Alyson Eng - January 13, 2026
Nine years after last setting foot in Vancouver, BC, the K-pop girl group, TWICE, returned to the city for a long-awaited homecoming. The group last visited in 2017 while filming the music video for their hit song, “Likey,” a moment many fans still associate with the city. On January 9 and 10, 2...
Past Shows
The Dance Centre and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present Justine A. Chambers in The Brutal Joy.The Brutal Joy unfurls Black line dancing and sartorial expression...
The Dance Centre and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present the world premiere of Catching Up to the Future of Our Past, where two people move...
WAIL is crafted as a poem for our present moment, weaving sound and movement together to capture the essence of shared experience in a time...
Choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Eric Cheung premieres his debut full-length work, Contra. Set within an ethereal world, Contra merges dance with interactive technologies, sculpting multi-laser projections and a...
The Dance Centre’s popular and long-running Discover Dance! noon series highlights the art of flamenco with a performance by Flamenco Rosario. A trailblazing force in...
The Dance Centre’s popular and long-running Discover Dance! noon series begins a new season with a performance by the Vancouver-based Bharatanatyam artist Sujit Vaidya. Known...
The Dance Centre presents a visionary World Premiere from Co.ERASGA. Eternal Gestures is a trilogy of evocative solo works commissioned from Indigenous Coast Salish-based choreographers Starr Muranko,...
The Dance Centre's 24th annual Open House offers a chance to experience a host of different dance styles, in an afternoon of free classes, showings and...
The Dance Centre presents the world premiere of a thrilling new international creation by Vancouver’s Company 605 and Singapore’s The Human Expression Dance Company.Sloth Canon...
The fifth edition of Open Stage features a program of exciting and varied dance works by Amok Project, Kara Wiebe (La Picante), Krystal Tsai, and...
The Dance Centre presents a program of vibrant events celebrating the art of dance for International Dance Day. Highlights include Vanessa Goodman’s innovative stairs-inspired project...
The February edition of The Dance Centre’s popular and long-running Discover Dance! noon series celebrates the exuberance, comedy, drama, and fun of Bollywood, with a...
The Dance Centre presents the internationally acclaimed BC choreographer Daina Ashbee’s compelling new solo We learned a lot at our own funeral, which examines the...
Vancouver’s renowned Bharata Natyam dancers Kiruthika Rathanaswami and Malavika Santhosh join forces in Shiva (he)/Shakti (she), a richly evocative new duet which explores the duality of...
The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! noon series features the exceptional young dancers of the Arts Umbrella Dance Company, a pre-professional repertory company based in...
The Dance Centre presents the world premiere of Sky Dancers, a spellbinding new work which brings together five outstanding Bharata Natyam artists. Using the framework...
The Dance Centre presents the 23rd annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House.From ballet and contemporary to Vogue, flamenco and Mexican folk dance, the Open House offers...
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 relationship...
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...
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...
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 chilled-out...
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 and...
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,...
The Dance Centre presents Ramanenjana, a docufiction performance about a ‘dance epidemic’ which swept Madagascar in 1863. Created by Simona Deaconescu (Romania) and Gaby Saranouffi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 maker,...
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 of people...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 is an intimate duet created by English choreographer Theo Clinkard in collaboration with the Finnish dancers Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen. Caught in...
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...
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 features dance works spanning a varied range of styles and approaches by Anya Saugstad and Artists, Lamondance, Linda Hayes, and Rachel Maddock....
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...
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...
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...
The January edition of The Dance Centres Discover Dance! series features the innovative reconnection of music and contemporary dance by Ne. Sans Opera & Dance....
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....
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....
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,...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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 music of the great Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti provides the starting point for this exciting new collaboration between contemporary choreographer Martha Carter and the...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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