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We learned a lot at our own funeral


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 ...


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The Dance Centre to Present The Discover Dance! Series: Arts Umbrella Dance Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 30, 2024

Discover the exceptional young dancers of the Arts Umbrella Dance Company at The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! series, featuring innovative contemporary ballets and an artist talkback. Learn how to attend. ...

The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! Series to Open With Corporeal Imago's LIMB(E)S


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 02, 2024

The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! series will open with Corporeal Imago's Limb(e)s, an award-winning aerial dance duet exploring themes of connection and release, performed by Eowynn and Isak Enquist. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

The Dance Centre Presents The World Premiere Of SKY DANCERS


by A.A. Cristi - September 04, 2024

The Dance Centre will present the Global Dance Connections series....

See Contemporary, Vogue, Flamenco And More At The Annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 27, 2024

Explore a variety of dance styles at the 23rd annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House. Learn how to attend. ...

The Dance Centre to Present West Coast Premiere of Sophie Dow's AGRIMONY


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 13, 2024

The Dance Centre will present the West Coast premiere of Vancouver-based choreographer Sophie Dow and UK-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Laura Reznek’s striking multidisciplinary work, Agrimony. Learn how to purchase tickets....

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival Returns for 2024


by A.A. Cristi - August 01, 2024

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival's 34th edition has announced its 2024 lineup featuring some of the finest Canadian and International Flamenco artists from September 12-22. ...

The Dance Centre Unveils BC Dance Awards Recipients


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 02, 2024

The Dance Centre in Vancouver has revealed the recipients of the Lola Award and Isadora Award. Learn more about the recipients!...

36th Annual Dancing on the Edge Festival Set For Next Month


by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2024

The Dancing on the Edge Festival (DOTE) returns for its 36th year this spring from Thursday, June 13 to Saturday, June 22 at various venues across the Lower Mainland including Firehall Arts Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre and SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, as well as an off-site presentation at...

The Dance Centre Presents Tap Dancer Danny Nielsen's In Conversation


by A.A. Cristi - April 30, 2024

The Dance Centre will present the Global Dance Connections series featuring Danny Nielsen In Conversation (world premiere) on Thursday-Friday May 23-24, 2024. ...

World Premiere of The Falling Company's FAMILY ROOM to be Presented by The Dance Centre in April


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 19, 2024

Experience the world premiere of FAMILY ROOM by The Falling Company, a dance theatre piece choreographed by Marissa Wong. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets. ...

Past Shows

Shiva (he)/Shakti (she)
Shiva (he)/Shakti (she)
12/6 - 12/7/2024


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 ...

Arts Umbrella Dance Company


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 ...

Sky Dancers
Sky Dancers
10/4 - 10/6/2024


The Dance Centre presents the world premiere of Sky Dancers , a spellbinding new work which brings together five outstanding Bharata Natyam artists. Using the ...

Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House


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 ...

In Conversation
In Conversation
5/23 - 5/24/2024


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 ...

Night Is The Mother


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 ...

Aché Brasil


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 ...

If You Could See Me Now
If You Could See Me Now
3/14 - 3/16/2024


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 ...

Voirelia Dance Hub


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 ...

Open Stage #4


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, ...

Ramanenjana
Ramanenjana
1/19 - 1/21/2024


The Dance Centre presents Ramanenjana , a docufiction performance about a ‘dance epidemic’ which swept Madagascar in 1863. Created by Simona Deaconescu (Romania) and Gaby ...

La Probabilité du Néant
La Probabilité du Néant
12/7 - 12/9/2023


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 ...

Anatomalia: anatomy + anomaly + femalia


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 ...

Calle Verde + Jhoely Triana Flamenco


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 ...

Classical Indian Dances in Focus


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 ...

The African Dream


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 ...

Open Stage #3


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 ...

Lamondance
Lamondance
4/20


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 ...

We Love Arabs
We Love Arabs
4/13 - 4/15/2023


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 ...

Spirit and Tradition


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 ...

LONTANO + INSTANTE
LONTANO + INSTANTE
1/26 - 1/29/2023


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 ...

Never Twenty One
Never Twenty One
1/19 - 1/21/2023


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 ...

You Touch Me
You Touch Me
12/8 - 12/10/2022


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 ...

Discover Dance! Karen Flamenco Dance Company


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 ...

Corporeal Imago: Throe
Corporeal Imago: Throe
11/17 - 11/19/2022


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 ...

Residuals (住み・墨)
Residuals (住み・墨)
11/4 - 11/5/2022


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 ...

Discover Dance! VanVogueJam


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 ...

Compagnie d’Autres Cordes – Franck Vigroux: Forêt


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 ...

Justine A. Chambers + Laurie Young: One hundred more


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 ...

Kisiskâciwan
Kisiskâciwan
9/30 - 10/1/2022


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 ...

The Dance Centre presents the 21st annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House


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
glint
7/14 - 7/16/2022


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
The Days
6/24 - 6/25/2022


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 ...

Rebel Grace
Rebel Grace
5/12 - 5/14/2022


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 ...

International Dance Day events


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 #2


Open Stage features dance works spanning a varied range of styles and approaches by Anya Saugstad and Artists, Lamondance, Linda Hayes, and Rachel Maddock....

Discover Dance! All Bodies Dance Project


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 ...

Daina Ashbee
Daina Ashbee
3/9 - 3/12/2022


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 ...

MAYDAY: La Goddam Voie Lactée 


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 ...

Ne. Sans Opera & Dance/Idan Cohen


The January edition of The Dance Centres Discover Dance! series features the innovative reconnection of music and contemporary dance by Ne. Sans Opera & Dance. ...

V’ni Dansi’s Louis Riel Métis 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. ...

V’ni Dansi’s Louis Riel Métis 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. ...

Discover Dance! Arno Kamolika


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, ...

Discover Dance! Goh Ballet
Discover Dance! Goh Ballet
6/3 - 6/17/2021


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 ...

TWObigsteps Collective: Departure


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, ...

Kinesis Dance somatheatro: Debris


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, ...

PROXIMITY - a collection of short works


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 ...

Chartier Danse
4/25 - 4/27/2013


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 Ligeti Project
4/18 - 4/20/2013


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 ...

Joe Ink
3/6 - 3/9/2013


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
2/14 - 2/16/2013


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 ...

Still Standing You
1/29 - 2/2/2013


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 ...

Haptic + Holistic Strata
1/25 - 1/27/2013


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 ...

Cédric Andrieux
1/18 - 1/20/2012


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 ...

Videos


Sinners by Norm Foster in Vancouver Sinners by Norm Foster
Metro Theatre (1/24 - 2/15)
DanceHouse and The Cultch present Circa’s Duck Pond in Vancouver DanceHouse and The Cultch present Circa’s Duck Pond
DanceHouse and The Cultch present Circa’s Duck Pond (1/22 - 1/25)
LIONEL BART'S OLIVER! in Vancouver LIONEL BART'S OLIVER!
Gateway Theatre (12/12 - 1/4)
Dear Evan Hansen (Non-Equity) in Vancouver Dear Evan Hansen (Non-Equity)
Mount Baker Theatre [Main Stage] (2/4 - 2/4)
Hadestown (Non-Equity) in Vancouver Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Mount Baker Theatre [Main Stage] (12/18 - 12/18)
Beetlejuice in Vancouver Beetlejuice
Queen Elizabeth Theatre (1/21 - 1/26)
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Non-Equity) in Vancouver Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Non-Equity)
Queen Elizabeth Theatre (3/25 - 3/30)
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