BUY TICKETS no intermission / post-show talkback Vic’s Mix With both humorous and serious moments, Vic’s Mix is a kind of “best of” spanning the immense creative territory explored by choreographer Victor Quijada, extracting jewels from the choreographer’s repertoire. In a remix of his own work, orchestrating the clash between urban pop and classical composition, […]
BUY TICKETS November 6 BUY TICKETS November 7 bar 6:30pm | post-show talkback Gershwin Suite & Schubert Frames Gershwin Suite After wowing audiences with his astounding production of Rite of Spring and Bolero in 2018, choreographer Michele Merola now focuses his extraordinary visual imagination on Gershwin’s euphoric and brilliant pieces, set in the most romantic […]
REGISTER All levels | Teens and Adults Elon Höglund and Emmanuelle Lê Phan, the two founders of Tentacle Tribe, draw on their experience as professional dancers (Cirque Du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, RUBBERBANDance, Bboyizm, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre) to develop a method that merges several philosophies of movement and a variety of techniques. The pair are well recognized in […]
BUY TICKETS no intermission | post-show talkback Ghost Drawing from their wide scope of dance experience, co-founders Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund create conceptual hip–hop with a contemporary twist, while intermingling organic influences from earthly creatures. In this new work, the free-spirited pair known as Tentacle Tribe combines elements of contemporary dance, street dance, […]
POSTPONED TO 2021-22 SEASON – BOX OFFICE WILL CONTACT TICKET HOLDERS All abilities | 9-90 years FluxDelux is a no-experience-required participatory performance event for people from ages 9 - 90+. Participants on their feet or using a wheelchair or any other mobility device share in the creation of a spontaneous choreography guided by a […]
POSTPONED TO 2021-22 SEASON – BOX OFFICE WILL CONTACT TICKET HOLDERS This autobiographical storytelling work brings Peggy's deeply personal embodied life experience to the stage with B.C.-based Sarah Chase's innovative solo research. Peggy Baker is acclaimed as one of the most outstanding and influential contemporary dancers of her generation. Her unique abilities are the […]
Ying Yun (英云) Thursday October 7 - Friday October 8 | 7:30pm BUY TICKETS Choreographed for five female performers, artistic director Wen Wei Wang dedicates this new work to his late mother, Ying Yun, who had a significant influence on him becoming an artist. Wang engages the dancers to interpret her story, whilst sharing their […]
Ying Yun (英云) Thursday October 7 - Friday October 8 | 7:30pm BUY TICKETS Choreographed for five female performers, artistic director Wen Wei Wang dedicates this new work to his late mother, Ying Yun, who had a significant influence on him becoming an artist. Wang engages the dancers to interpret her story, whilst sharing their […]
Trace Friday November 12 | 7:30pm We are traceable to the very beginnings of the universe, our ancestral origins stretching across the Milky Way to the atoms burning inside of us in the ‘here and now’ on earth. Trace is a highly kinetic contemporary dance work inspired by Indigenous (Anishinaabe) sky and star stories, offering […]
Spirit and Tradition Wednesday March 23 | 7:30pm Spirit and Tradition’s key themes are reciprocity and ecological sustainability, conveying important cultural teachings on balance, interconnectedness, and community. Through the sharing of Indigenous knowledge and artistic practices of the Northwest Coast, Spirit and Tradition layers Coastal masked dances, projected imagery, soundscape, and LED puppetry. The audience […]
unmoored Thursday May 26 | 7:30pm In their second collaboration Peggy Baker and BC-based dance artist Sarah Chase have created an emotional, autobiographical ‘dancestory’. Crafted from a deeply personal life experience Peggy had long found difficult to share, unmoored describes events during the 20-year arc of Baker’s marriage to the musician, composer, and disability rights […]
Broadway on Pointe and other works World premiere. Sunday October 2 | 2:30pm We’re thrilled to open the new season with a world premiere from Ballet Victoria. Singing, dancing, and acting. Dramatic, bold, and beautiful. Two stars collide on the roller coaster of fame in this one-act ballet tribute to Broadway’s most iconic tunes. The […]
Proximity: A Collection of Short Works Thursday November 3 | 7:30pm Joshua Beamish is a BC dance artist who has achieved worldwide success as a prolific choreographer and an exceptional performer. This is a chance to see both aspects of his work, with a mixed program of thrilling contemporary dance pieces. Lost Touch (a solo […]
Devised composition workshop with Caroline Shaw and Vanessa Goodman, exploring collaboration between sound and movement. Working with themes of repetition, decomposition, and regeneration, this workshop will begin with a sound and movement warm-up and continue working with sonic and movement scores used in their collaborative process. The workshop precedes their performance of 'Graveyards & Gardens' […]
Graveyards and Gardens Thursday February 16 | 7:30pm Graveyards and Gardens is a collaborative performance installation conceived, created, and performed by Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and composer Caroline Shaw, and award-winning choreographer and contemporary dance artist Vanessa Goodman. Highlighted by Stir as one of the most memorable Vancouver theatre moments in 2021, the work examines memory […]
Body Parts Saturday February 25 | 7:30pm Written, choreographed and performed by veteran artist Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Body Parts is a solo piece in which she tries to perform her show but gets comically side-tracked by her own body issues. Something has gone terribly wrong! Part stand-up comedy, part Greek tragedy, part performance art, part […]
Birthday Present for Myself Tuesday March 14 | 7:30pm Accomplished dancer-choreographer-actor Hiromoto Ida skillfully merges dance, theatre, classical music, and voice to tell the story of the old man, raising a glass of sake to himself in celebration on what will be his last birthday. Inspired by the subtlety and simplicity of Japanese Noh theatre […]
Sansei: The Storyteller Wednesday May 3 | 7:30pm Sansei: The Storyteller examines one of Canada’s darkest moments. On December 7, 1941, an attack on Pearl Harbor triggered the internment and dispossession of tens of thousands of Japanese Canadians living along Canada's west coast. Through an engaging blend of dance, spoken word, historical audio, family interviews, […]
