Articles of Section 'Dance'.

Dance
New Edge commisions wow crowds
By Janet Smith
On its 20th anniversary, the Dancing on the Edge festival commissioned 10 works that made for as much fun as pulling treats from a loot bag.
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Heartfelt paternal memories fuel Nine Points to Navigate
By Janet Smith
With personal recollections of his father at the heart of the piece, Brian Webb’s bizarre fusion of bar-band cover songs, candid confessionals, classical piano, and contemporary dance results in a deeply moving experience.
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Take it Back's mashup gets the crowd whooping
By Janet Smith
At the outset, the idea of fusing break dance and swing dance might sound contrived. But Montreal-based Solid State’s mashup is so organic and fun-loving that it manages to get the audience members whooping like they’re at a full-blown battle.
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Kokoro Dance's Ghosts provides unforgettable opening
By Janet Smith
It was a surreal opener to the Dancing on the Edge festival when bagpipes cut through the Downtown Eastside’s soundscape of screeching sirens, idling motors, and dope-sick yelling.
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Serge Bennathan comes full circle
By Janet Smith
The French-born choreographer is one of the artists returning, 20 years later, with new commissions for the Dancing on the Edge, a festival that offers a rare opportunity to innovate.
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Dancing on the Edge festival sees more outdoor works than ever
By Janet Smith
When it comes to performing outside, the magic moments usually make up for the drawbacks. Dancer and choreographer Sylvie Bouchard should know: for the past 14 years, she’s overseen Dusk Dances, an Ontario-based program that brings the art form to parks in the summer—and which has been a popular fixture at our own Dancing on the Edge festival over the years.
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SFU grads get edgy at Pulse
By Janet Smith
From the outset, the trio of pieces on the Dance Centre’s latest Pulse series program seem to have nothing in common. A performer tapes himself into a cardboard box and then rolls around. Dancers push themselves to physical extremes to embody gluttony. And a quartet moves with modern grace to Arvo Pärt’s haunting music.
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Sisters dance fiery flamenco in Mis Hermanas
By Janet Smith
Mis Hermanas
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Marie Chouinard conjures stunning tour de force
By Alexander Varty
bODY_remix/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS
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Masterful variations by Marie Chouinard
By Janet Smith
The Montreal choreographer displays her command in strange, daring expressions of joy and curiosity in one of the dance events of the year.
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Jennifer Clarke unsettles the score
By Alexander Varty
With trademark verve, the East Vancouver choreographer moves to her own coolly inventive beats for International Dance Day.
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Starry Peter Pan flies high
By Janet Smith
Peter Pan
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Danza Cuba returns to Canada
By Janet Smith
Banned from the U.S., Danza Cuba is back with pirouettes and swivelling hips in a fiery new show that’s bound to overcome our national bashfulness.
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Victor Quijada stretches ballet into hip-hop with Elastic Perspective
By Janet Smith
Victor Quijada’s Rubberbandance Group is known for its street-smart mashup of hip-hop and ballet. But rather than cutting and pasting together moves from each style, his renegade company has spent the past six years aiming for perfect fusion. Asking him to separate out the influences in his choreography, Quijada says, is like asking the Los Angeles–born Mexican-American which parts of him are from which culture.
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The Tomorrow Collective pulses clubby cool
By Janet Smith
The best thing about the Tomorrow Collective is that its works are rooted squarely in today. Dance can seem rarefied, but this trio of female upstarts is devoted to capturing the here and now. They make dance cool.
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Alvin Erasga Tolentino is dancing in paradise
By Alexander Varty
Local choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino draws heaven down from the abstract to suggest that it lies within each of us
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Brainstorm breaks down dance history
By Janet Smith
Timber/Timbre
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Sarah Williams dallies over the message
By Alexander Varty
Presented by the Vancouver International Dance Festival. At the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre on Saturday, March 8. No remaining performances
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Christopher House builds a chilly beauty
By Alexander Varty
Chiasmata
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Joe Ink pays price of beauty
By Janet Smith
Vancouver choreographer Joe Laughlin has made a name for himself by teaching his dance audiences to expect the unexpected. In the dozen years since he founded Joe Ink, the insanely versatile artistic director has featured his performers swinging on giant metal scaffolding, spent years shuttling between here and South Africa to collaborate with the racially integrated troupe Moving Into Dance Mophatong, and delved into high-tech experiments with digital projections.
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Style-makers spring into Vancouver International Dance Festival
By Janet Smith
Find Paradis/Paradise at the Roundhouse, or just let Sarah Williams, Rita Cioffi, Joe Laughlin, and Christopher House inspire you as they transcend styles and twist genres.
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Margie Gillis seeks inside-out revelations in dance solos
By Alexander Varty
Margie Gillis makes people cry: her dancing is so intensely emotional, and so beautiful, that viewers are often brought to tears by her solo performances. Like any trouper, she’s more honoured than perturbed by this reaction; it’s a sign she’s doing something right.
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B.C. Ballet's Four Seasons proves a mix of joy, pain, and scribbling
By Jessica Werb
Ballet B.C.’s ambitious The Four Seasons employs not just dance but visual art and installation, along with a sprinkle of community involvement. Call it the VANOC makeover.
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Ballet B.C. star steps away
A meaningful farewell duet hides amid the mixed program for Ballet B.C.’s The Four Seasons. Artistic director John Alleyne added Dominique Dumais’s tortured breakup piece a/way inside specifically to showcase Edmond Kilpatrick and say goodbye to him after nine seasons with the company.
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Urban nomads roam Imbolc
By Alexander Varty
The latest creation from choreographer Carolyn Deby and her Sirenscrossing dance company takes its name from Imbolc, an ancient and nearly forgotten Celtic ritual of rebirth and hope. In this new work, audience and performers alike become urban nomads, crisscrossing the city in search of meaningful visions and extraordinary places. In a sense, Imbolc (in the belly) is a kind of brief, theatricalized pilgrimage—yet Deby does not want to be pegged as some kind of neo-pagan priestess.
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