Vancouver International Dance Festival
Skin, Pain, Plastic and Paper
Kelly McInnes’s SHINY at the Vancouver International Dance Festival By Rachel Silver MaddockJust how deep does the damage go? In SHINY Kelly McInnes gets to the guts of this question in a persistent and stealthy topic: the effects of the beauty standards inflicted on women through media.
Posted April 16, 2019
Alien Rituals
10 Gates Dancing’s TRUST at the Vancouver International Dance Festival By Rachel Silver MaddockThe program describes the duet as a “requiem for wood and stone” – a “primitive mystery of vulnerability and transformation.” With or without these descriptions, the setup places us immediately inside some kind of ritual or spiritual journey, though its parameters and significance are unclear.
Posted April 15, 2019
Shadows Against a Sunset
pataSola dance’s Rift By Olivia C. DaviesResponding to the ongoing worldwide struggle of violence against women and girls, pataSola dance has created a theatrical performance work that pays homage to victims and survivors, while offering a transformative experience of surrender and sanctity.
Posted April 23, 2018
Diverse Expertise
Vancouver International Dance Festival By Andrea Rabinovitch Vancouver International Dance Festival 2017Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) aims to grow appreciation for culturally diverse dance. In this review - works by Margaret Grenier, Karen Jamieson and Molly McDermott, as well as international company Dairakudakan.
Posted May 5, 2017
Winter Awards and News 2017
Holly Bright of Crimson Coast Dance Society was awarded one of two 2017 John Hobday Awards in Arts Management, Salomé Nieto won the 2017 VIDF Choreographic Award, Karen Kain, artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada (NBoC) has chosen to mentor Robert Binet, a choreographic associate of NBoC, as part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Mentorship Program, Meredith Kalaman and Arash Khakpour received Dance Victoria’s Chrystal Dance Prize for Independent Dance Artsis, Katherine Semchuk won the New Work Award from Good Women Dance Collective. In other news, Ballet BC announced the appointment of John Clark as the company’s new Executive Director.
Posted April 3, 2017
POST NO BILLS
Kitt Johnson presents an extended excerpt of her award-winning solo POST NO BILLS.
Posted March 22, 2017
Foutrement
Infidelity, love, seduction, temptation and the the weight of love’s disillusionment – all themes in Montréal choreographer Virginie Brunelle’s Foutrement, on this week at the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
Posted March 2, 2016
Vancouver International Dance Festival
Festival | Festival
Various National
February 28-19 mars 2016
Various Days and Times | Spectacles à différentes dates et heures
Contemporary
Pseudo human /Super human
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
March 8-9 mars 2019
8:00 | 20:00
Contemporary
Serpentine
Installation | Installation
BC
March 27-30 mars 2019
5:00 | 17:00
Contemporary
Gathering Light
Performance | Spectacle
BC
March 13-16 mars 2019
5:00 | 17:00
Contemporary, Indigenous
Pseudo human Super human
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
March 8-9 mars 2018
8:00 | 20:00
Butoh
Varhung～Heart to Heart
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
March 29-30 mars 2018
8:00 | 20:00
Contemporary, Indigenous
Disagreeable Tales
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
March 22-24 mars 2018
7:00 | 19:00
Contemporary
IMAGO
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
March 20-21 mars 2018
7:00 | 19:00
Contemporary
Selections of Goh ballet Performances
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
March 15-17 mars 2018
7:00 | 19:00
Ballet
Studies and Fragments on Dreams
Performance | Spectacle
Vancouver BC
March 23-24 mars 2018
8:00 | 20:00
Contemporary
