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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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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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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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Aching Distances

Ali Robson’s performance response to Dancing with Tantalus in review

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Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ Drive-In Show Is an Innovative Pandemic Performance

There is something in the details closes tonight

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‘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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Sweet As Sugarplum

A review of Goh Ballet’s film, The Nutcracker, Beyond the Stage: Fallen Prince

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Embodied Geographies

Review of Joshua Whitehead’s Making Love With the Land

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When Dancing Is a Total Nightmare

Fear of Dancing follows filmmaker Michael Allcock, whose fear of dancing keeps him on the sidelines

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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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Upon Four Pillars

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

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A Global Garden

Mile Zero Dance presents a worldwide performance with Garden Party

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Theatre Reimagined

Ismailova Theatre of Dance embraces the digital in Seeking Everyday Magicians

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The Privilege of the Pastoral

Grove raises crucial questions during a period of global outcry

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Extricating Liveness During COVID-19

Thea Patterson’s Silvering in Confinement

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A Glitch in Paradise

Zata Omm’s Eden Planted

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On Collapsing Pain Into Prayer

Sampradaya Dance Creations’ MANDALA

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The Courage to Be Kind

One Kind Favor by George Stamos

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The Inner Lives of Clowns

Kemi Projects explores performance and desire in new work Known

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When Bygones Won’t Let Go

The newest work from Out Innerspace Dance Theatre

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Dystopian Impressions

Marie Béland’s Beside

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Expanding Their Reach

All Bodies Dance Project investigates sightless dance

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On the Steps of the Escalators

An after-hours performance with jes sachse

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Devious Spine Chills

Hélène Blackburn and Lucie Bazzo’s Suites Ténébreuses / The Monsters

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