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Co.ERASGA, Action at a Distance, Plastic Orchid Factory, and more as Dance Centre unveils a 2025-26 season with local names

Offerings also include world premieres from Corporeal Imago and FakeKnot, plus Ame Henderson + Matija Ferlin’s Show Gone

The Dance Deck marks its 10th anniversary at the Eastside Arts Festival, starting July 19

Belle Spirale’s backyard shindig features performances by Action at a Distance’s Vanessa Goodman, Paper Rabbits collective, Ballet BC dancers, and more

A Punjabi play, an enlightening salon series, and more as Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts unveils 2025 lineup

This year’s event, on from August 7 to 17, also features a standup comedy show by YouTube star Manpreet Singh and all-ages dance workshops

At Indian Summer Festival, Simran Sachar embodies her mother’s dancing with lightning-like presence

Waacking-infused world premiere co-created with Justine A. Chambers draws on a 1990 indie Bollywood film choreographed by Sachar’s mom

Metro Vancouver's Canada Day celebrations span live music, parades, and all-day parties

Performances by the Wild Moccasin Dancers, jazz trumpeter Feven Kidane, party band Dr. Strangelove, and plenty more artists are in store

New Works and Rainbow Refugee Society honour Pride Month with reflections on an impactful dance collaboration

Artists Kevin Jesuino and Marco Esccer worked with LGBTQI+ society members to create an empowering dance performance that told their truths

DANCEStir VancouverJune 25, 2025Partner Content, New Works, Pride, Rainbow Refugee

Arts Umbrella invites young artists to join this year's Summer Dance Intensives throughout July

Offerings are designed to suit dancers of varying ages and abilities, from the inaugural ISDI2 program to intensives for Juniors and Teens

DANCEStir VancouverJune 23, 2025Partner Content, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

The Dance Centre serves up bite-sized works-in-progress at 12 Minutes Max studio showing, June 23

Presentation features genre-spanning pieces by Aditi Chaudhury and Sudnya Mulye, Jhoely Triana Flamenco, Jullianna Oke, and Krystal Tsai

DANCEJanet SmithJune 16, 2025THE DANCE CENTRE, The Dance CEntre, Summer 2025

Dance review: Opening Edge programs generate big intensity in a small space

Repetition, endurance, and ritual from Noam Gagnon, Lesley Telford, Rebecca Margolick, and Tushrik Fredericks

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJune 13, 2025Dancing on the Edge, Summer 2025, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Bodies drape softly over metal ladders in Lurch, at Dancing on the Edge

The MascallDance production uses a large set piece to unite three distinct pieces by different choreographers

Dance review: Sculptural slo-mo and frenetic rush as Sloth Canon unpacks today’s punishing pace

With arresting dancers and haunting atmosphere, Company 605 and T.H.E Dance Company cocreation grapples with big, timely ideas

DANCEJanet SmithJune 9, 2025Company 605, DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 works worth catching at the Dancing on the Edge festival

Studies in math and an industrial fan are just some of the unexpected touches on the event’s mixed programs

DANCEStir VancouverJune 6, 2025Dancing on the Edge, Summer 2025

Stir Q&A: Tushrik Fredericks and Rebecca Margolick talk trust and spirituality at Dancing on the Edge

Intimate duet to begin with no end explores the artists’ respective religions with care and intensity

Vancouver-Singapore collaboration Sloth Canon captures drive to build more, faster

Company 605 and T.H.E Dance Company push cross-Pacific team of dancers to embody a society rushing toward the next thing, at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

DANCEJanet SmithMay 29, 2025Company 605, The Dance Centre, THE DANCE CENTRE, Spring 2025