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Dance Centre showcases young dance collective Immigrant Lessons

by Shawn Conner in Events, Insider on February 20, 2020

The March edition of The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! series features the young collective Immigrant Lessons. The group has quite the CV: notable performances include Pattern Nation, Sleepless Mindz, Ted Talk, Junofest, Basscoast Music Festival, Shambhala Music Festival, Vines Art Festival, Vancouver Street Dance Festival, and New Works, as well as collaborations with the Juno Award-winning hip-hop act A Tribe Called Red and Juno-nominated Shad.

You can see the group on March 5 in two performances, at noon and 6:30 p.m. Find out more about Immigrant Lessons below.

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Dance Centre showcases young dance collective Immigrant Lessons

Three dance performances to see in Vancouver in February

by Shawn Conner in Entertainment, Insider on January 30, 2020

Danca Sinfonica. Jose Luiz Pederneiras photo.

The return of an internationally renowned Brazilian dance company, a selection of new works by local choreographers and an ambitious work performed by Montreal street dancers are some of the options contemporary dance fans have in Vancouver this month. Scroll down to find out more.

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Three dance performances to see in Vancouver in February

‘Ghostly architecture and transformed objects’ inform dance piece Bygones

by Shawn Conner in Entertainment, Insider on December 12, 2019

Out Innerspace Dance Theatre: BYGONES
Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Photo by Alistair Maitland Photography

Out Innerspace Dance Theatre presents Bygones, on now until Dec. 14 at Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St.). Created and performed by co-directors David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen in collaboration with dancers Renée Sigouin, Elya Grant and David Harvey, the work “considers how we are shaped by what we have overcome: and how something challenging can lead to something beautiful,” according to the media release.

Find out more below.

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‘Ghostly architecture and transformed objects’ inform dance piece Bygones

Mînowin mesmerizes with Indigenous dance in a multi-media setting

by Shawn Conner in Events, Insider on November 18, 2019

Mînowin is the latest interactive dance show from Dancers of Damelahamid. The Indigenous dance company is known for combining traditional West Coast dance with eye-popping staging, projections, and lighting.

Since premiering the piece in September as part of the National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre’s inaugural year, the troupe has been touring Eastern Canada and Mexico. Now, they’re bringing it all back home for a run at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Nov. 20-24. Find out more below.

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Mînowin mesmerizes with Indigenous dance in a multi-media setting

Flamenco v Tap: Dawn of a New Grease

by Shawn Conner in Entertainment, Insider on October 24, 2019

David Cooper photo.

Get ready for a new version of Grease—flamenco-and-tap-style!

The Karen Flamenco dancers are teaming up with Troy McLaughlin’s tap crew for a flamenco vs. tap showdown in a new production of Grease. The show is Nov 1 & 2 at the Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton St.. Find out more below.

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Flamenco v Tap: Dawn of a New Grease

Five (more) reasons to check out at this year’s Chutzpah! Festival

by Shawn Conner in Events, Insider on October 18, 2019

MM Contemporary Dance performing Gershwin Suite. Photo: Tiziano Ghidorsi

The Chutzpah! Festival is a celebration of Jewish dance, theatre, comedy, music and more. We’ve already written about the festival’s 19th-year headliner Sandra Bernhard, but here are five more reasons to check out the annual event (Oct. 24-Nov 24).

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Five (more) reasons to check out at this year’s Chutzpah! Festival

Lucy Guerin’s Split comes to Scotiabank Dance Centre

by Shawn Conner in Entertainment, Insider on October 8, 2019

Two dancers, one naked, one clothed, perform Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin’s Split at Scotiabank Dance Centre Oct. 16 & 17. Photo: Gregory Lorenzutti

This month, Scotiabank Dance Centre presents a work by Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin. Split comes to the Dance Centre Oct. 16 & 17 as part of the Centre’s Global Connections Dance Series. In the piece, two female dancers—one clothed and one not—are framed by ever-diminishing dimensions of space and time with escalating intensity. Find out more below.

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Lucy Guerin’s Split comes to Scotiabank Dance Centre