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Languages and Cultures Clash in Babel 7.16
Visually arresting performances by a triple-threat ensemble elevate Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet’s epic story
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By Joshua Chong
Confession Publique Asks Whether We Can Choose Not to Look
Angélique Willkie centres humanity in Mélanie Demers’s interrogating performance
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By Philip Szporer
Opera Atelier’s Angel Certainly Flies – But Where Does It Land?
The baroque opera company’s multidisciplinary storytelling event marks the culmination of a four-year project by composer Edwin Huizinga
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By Joshua Chong
Two Performances that Create, Clear and Hold Space
Getting to know your Fruit and The Grand March of the House of Siriano premiered at Fall for Dance North 2021
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By Christina de la Cruz
Double Feature Is a Testament to the Need for Truth Before Reconciliation
Citadel + Compagnie marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation with a touching double feature
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By Amy Hull
Waterline: A Dance with the Surface of the Water Considers What Water Might Remember
In partnering with a river’s surface, the performance meditates on the vital relations between humans, water and what becomes ghostly
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By Jillian Groening
To Victor with Love Is an Energetic and Moving Tribute
The work honours the late Victor Kolstee, co-founder of Flamenco Rosario
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By Rachel Silver Maddock
Andrea Peña’s 6.58: Manifesto Examines The Body As a Site Through Which Societies Create an Oppressive System
Set in a post-industrial reality, the piece conveys a darkly dystopian universe, where dread is omnipresent and free will has faded away
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By Philip Szporer
MUKUTHÔ Proves That Community Can Be Built Within The Span of One Show
The performance by Casimiro Nhussi and Pulga Muchochoma, in partnership with dance Immersion, was presented in Toronto as part of Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park from Aug. 19 through 27
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By Chenise Mitchell
Porch View Dances’ 10th Anniversary Online Film Festival Captures Its Roaming, Inclusive Essence
This year’s performances refract notions of home through movement and community
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By KC Hoard
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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By Rachel Silver Maddock
The Living Performance Environment in MOTHER sound / body Presents a World of Possibilities
The performers wear sensors on their wrists, which control lighting, music and projections in the performance environment
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By Rachel Silver Maddock
Wanted Rides the Line Between Campy and Cool
CAMP’s swaggering cowboy comedy considers good and evil at Vancouver International Dance Festival
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By Tessa Perkins Deneault
Stories of Struggle and Triumph Underscore GRIT: Short Dances
Five emerging artists showcase the diversity of Asian cultures and identities
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By Joshua Chong
Kaija Pepper Merges Art with Life in her 2020 Memoir, Falling Into Flight
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By Kallee Lins
The Coming Silence Is a Wild Ride
kloetzel&co.’s self-guided tour presents a wilderness that is threatened by extinction
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By Jenna Shummoogum
Propeller Dance Brings Vibrant Joy to Our Living Rooms for Earth Day 2021
Celebrating and connecting with the Earth in the virtual age of a pandemic
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By Patricia Allison
The Dance Centre’s Latest Show in the Discover Dance! Series Is a Flamenco Smorgasbord
Kasandra “La China” offers a cursory introduction to the flamenco art form that leaves you wanting more
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By Joshua Chong
Belinda McGuire’s ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Dancefilm Invigorates a Challenged Art Form
Order in the Eye of the Beholder is available until April 30
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By Deirdre Kelly
Orange Is a Mesmerizing Duet on Human Connection
Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject and Less San Miguel/LessIZM’s experimental creation melds two bodies into one
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By Joshua Chong
KNOW the RULES, WIN the GAME Is a Clever Look at the Artist in Politics
Kunji Ikeda uses history and humour to ask what would happen if artists today were trusted advisors to government
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By Rachel Silver Maddock
Aching Distances
Ali Robson’s performance response to Dancing with Tantalus in review
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By Jillian Groening
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ Drive-In Show Is an Innovative Pandemic Performance
There is something in the details closes tonight
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By Jenna Shummoogum
‘Historians’ Is an Ode to Black Lives and Blackness Dedicated to the Spirits and Soul of Us Black Folx
Kevin Ormsby reviews the short film that won Best Social Justice Film at the Vancouver Independent Film Festival
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By Kevin A. Ormsby
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