DanceHouse presents Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things)

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

DanceHouse presents Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s hypnotic work, Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things), on stage November 22 & 23, 2024 at 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Through synchronized, metronomic rhythms, the full-length work challenges mandatory conformity and cohesion and turns the body itself into a spectacle through rigorous repetition and mechanistic rituals, accompanied by a minimalist score by Antoine Berthiaume. The power of endurance...

DanceHouse presents Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things)

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

DanceHouse presents Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s hypnotic work, Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things), on stage November 22 & 23, 2024 at 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Through synchronized, metronomic rhythms, the full-length work challenges mandatory conformity and cohesion and turns the body itself into a spectacle through rigorous repetition and mechanistic rituals, accompanied by a minimalist score by Antoine Berthiaume. The power of endurance...

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival’s 34th edition proudly announces its 2024 lineup featuring some of the finest Canadian and International Flamenco artists. The 2024 Festival will feature live performances, with both ticketed and FREE events.  VIFF promises to deliver exceptional and dynamic programs and we celebrate our local, national and international connections and performers. One of this year’s highlights is the presentation of Spain’s COMPAÑÍA MARCO FLORES for two...

Free – $75

DanceHouse and The Cultch present The Mirror

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

DanceHouse and The Cultch present the North American premiere of The Mirror from Australia’s genre-defying contemporary circus company, Gravity & Other Myths, which will play January 24-27, 2024 at the Vancouver Playhouse. This athletically-charged work breaks down the barrier between audience and performer, inviting audiences on their quest for authentic human connection in an increasingly disconnected digital age.

$98.25

Sacre

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, his transgressive work that almost succeeded in burning down the theatre upon its premiere, erupts once more in Sacre, a new interpretation from Australia’s Circa. The production aims to mirror circus’ raw strength and Stravinsky’s brute ceremony. Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz hopes to give the work a razored social edge and investigate the very nature of human experience....

$35

winter guests: Story, story, die.

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

The rules of the game are simple. Like and be liked. Kill or be killed. Under the direction of choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen, Norway’s dance/theatre company winter guests attempts to deconstruct contemporary pathologies of need and narcissism.  Taking inspiration from the performer’s real-life experiences, solo work and group dynamics try to lay bare the brutal cost of social rituals. With...

$35 – $94

Revisor

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

When a sneaky bureaucrat undoes the corrupt officials of a provincial city, out of a heaping trash-pile of bad behaviour — lust, greed, fear and mendacity — emerges a warped yet prescient image of our current state. Revisor's aim is to be a funhouse mirror, a horror show, a comedy that is no longer funny. More than just an excoriating...

$35 – $94