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What Does Your Community Look Like?

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Le cri des méduses Is a Sensorial Feast

Alan Lake Factorie draws inspiration from Géricault’s famous painting The Raft of the Medusa to create a surreal, shocking theatrical world.

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Circa’s Sacre Enthralls but Falls Short of the Score

The Australian circus-dance company’s take on The Rite of Spring nails spectacle but just misses sensitivity

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How Vancouver Chinese Lion Dancing Teams Prepared to Celebrate Chinese New Year 2022 – Year of the Tiger

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An Artist’s Retirement: How to Pay for It

Don’t have a government pension? Follow these tips to save for later years

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Mama, do we die when we sleep? Explores Wonder in a World of Responsibility

Part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival in Vancouver, Rachel Meyer’s work was inspired by the question posed by her two-year-old daughter

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Just What the Therapist Ordered

By accident, I discovered how Bollywood and bhangra dance can help manage Parkinson's disease

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Made in BC Celebrates 15 Years With an Interactive Virtual History

Dancing Stories from BC is an online project preserving the ephemera of live performances

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Margaret Grenier Wins Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts

Grenier is the first Indigenous artist to be awarded the prize

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My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community by Peter Dickinson

The book delves into a decade of contemporary dance in Vancouver but also highlights a barrier between two segments of the city’s dance community

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Which Election Issues Are Top of Mind for BC Artists?

With the British Columbia election around the corner, artists wonder how the three political parties will address the future of the arts sector

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Remembering Anna Wyman

A former student writes about the beloved dance teacher, choreographer and artistic director

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Upon Four Pillars

Olivia C. Davies brings ceremony home in Wishing Well at Dancing on the Edge

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When Bygones Won’t Let Go

The newest work from Out Innerspace Dance Theatre

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Expanding Their Reach

All Bodies Dance Project investigates sightless dance

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Reclaiming Narrative for a Contemporary Audience

Josh Beamish’s @giselle

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That Sweet Spot Between Gallery and Stage

Alexa Mardon and Erika Mitsuhashi’s Tender Engine

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Redefining Recital

Arts Umbrella’s season finale

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Nurturing Impulse

Q & A with Jennifer Mascall

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Skin, Pain, Plastic and Paper

Kelly McInnes’s SHINY at the Vancouver International Dance Festival

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Alien Rituals

10 Gates Dancing’s TRUST at the Vancouver International Dance Festival

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Salmon Girl

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She’s Got the “Taksu”

Q & A with Firda Wijaya

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Ascension: Intimate Conversations

Simon Fraser University Student Production Dec. 2018

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