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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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Humanity Adrift

Alan Lake Factori(e)’s Le cri des méduses

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Repetition is a Form of Change

Andrea Peña’s Untitled I + III

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In the Grip of a Crowd

Hanna Kiel’s Resonance

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A Quizzical Assortment

Three choreographers remix Melanie Demers’ Cantique

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Performing Radical Sincerity

Dana Michel’s CUTLASS SPRING

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A Glimmer of Hope

Rodney Diverlus and Syrus Ware’s burn, burned

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