The energy and excitement of New York inspires Day Helesic’s Around the Block, a full-length dance work reflecting the spirit of the city and the people who live there. Four dancers travel the streets of Manhattan in a desire to find connection within the chaos, in a physical essay of boldness and intensity. With a driving original score by Marc Stewart, lighting by Rob Sondergaard and striking film by Aren Hansen and Reva Quam, Around the Block is a work of physical devotion and harnessed energy. The dancers are original cast members Day Helesic, Amber Funk Barton and Shay Kuebler, here joined by James Gnam.
Presented by The Dance Centre and MovEnt.
Tickets from 604.684.2787 www.ticketstonight.ca
Info www.thedancecentre.cawww.movent.ca
Our annual Ceroc Spring Ball will be held on Friday March 26th 2010 and will be as awesome as ever! This is your chance to "Dress To Impress" and wow everyone with your gorgeousness as well as your dance moves! All dance lessons (@ 8, 9 & 10pm) will be at the beginner level so it's the perfect night for those who are new to this social dancing lark. No partner necessary as everyone mixes! Dance lessons, social dancing, games for mingling, fabulous DJs, air-con, licensed bar all for $12. Must be 19+. Billy Bishop Hall, 1407 Laburnum, Kits Beach. For more info: www.cerocvancouver.ca. P.S. You'll never know who you'll meet - we've had one Ceroc wedding this year as a result of our 2008 Spring Ball!
The Dance Centre’s popular Discover Dance! noon series showcases the brilliant footwork and breathtaking virtuosity of flamenco, with an exhilarating performance by Flamenco Rosario. Flamenco Ayer Y Hoy (Then and Now) traces the development of this dance form with a program of traditional and contemporary flamenco, introduced by Artistic Director Rosario Ancer and Musical Director Victor Kolstee and performed by company dancers.
Tickets $10/$7 from www.ticketstonight.ca. Info: www.thedancecentre.ca.
The Fourth Annual Louis Riel Day Celebration: A Vancouver Festival of Métis Dance, Music and Culture
Following last year’s sold-out event, The Louis Riel Day Celebration will be held November 22, 2009 at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver. In addition to honouring Louis Riel – who inspired the rebirth of the Métis nation – the Festival is a chance to celebrate the vitality of contemporary Métis culture across Canada.
Now in our fourth year, this promises to be the biggest and best Celebration yet, featuring Winston Wuttunee, one of Canada’s premiere aboriginal performers who, will also host the evening; award winning singer-songwriter Ry Moran; traditional storyteller Tom McCallum; rising star Madeleine McCallum who will perform traditional dance and Jules Chartrand, Métis historian from St Laurent who will provide the opening prayer.
The Louis Riel Métis Dancers will once again provide the energy and heart to the Celebration with their traditional Métis jigging with square dance calling by Jim Twain and live fiddle accompaniment by Wuttunee. This year, the dancers will perform Daughters of the Country, a humorous contemporary dance piece about young Métis women on the Canadian frontier.
Two fast-rising Quebec dance artists bring their dynamic and theatrical solo works to Vancouver as part of an exchange project between The Dance Centre and Festival Transatlantique Montreal/Quartiers Danses. Alyson Wishnousky’s Pop! Bang! and Apparently Perverse, and Jean-Sébastien Lourdais’ Controle-consommation, are intensely physical explorations of modern issues ranging from stereotyped personalities and the transient nature of life to consumerism and social conformity.
September 28-29 at 8pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver.
Presented by The Dance Centre as part of the Global Dance Connections series. Tickets $10/$16 students and seniors from www.ticketstonight.ca. Info: www.thedancecentre.ca
Since 1810 “O’zapft is” has been the trademark phrase that heralds the opening of the famous Munich Oktoberfest. Over 6 million people annually, of all ages, and of all nationalities, take part in the world’s largest Folk Fest.
Did you know that the second largest Oktoberfest worldwide takes place in Canada? Kitchener-Waterloo, to be precise. Not to be outdone, Vancouver will host its own Oktoberfest in the perfect Bavarian setting of the Vancouver Alpen Club, with authentic music, schuplattler dancing, yodeling, bratwurst, and of course: the best of German Beer on tap!
All are invited to “Ein Prosit“ with S-Bahn, (a top Oktoberfest band featured at the Leavenworth, Wa. Oktoberfest this year) as they put on their one-of-a-kind show of classic Bavarian music, dancing, chants, and unique brand of rock & roll and pop. The German Band the Silverstars and the Edelweiss dancers will also perform.
We will also host the Bavarian Olympics, featuring beer drinking, Bavarian dancing, and yodeling competitions, with prizes at stake. We will also have a Ms. Oktoberfest contest.
Sport your Lederhosen or Dirndl dress and party with your friends in true Bavarian fashion, beginning at 7 p.m. on September 19th. Help hammer the first tap into the keg for 2009!
With cover price guests receive a free glass beer stein and your first beer!
Take two audacious songwriters, pair them with Vancouver’s most ambitious burlesque company and watch the feathers fly as The Wet Spots and Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society present SHINE: A Burlesque Musical.
A tassel-twirling original, SHINE: A Burlesque Musical is a full-book musical about an infamous burlesque theatre and the family of talented misfits who try to save it from demolition... or worse, respectability. Featuring the award-winning choreography of Screaming Chicken coupled with the acclaimed songwriting of cabaret duo The Wet Spots, SHINE is racy, intelligent entertainment for adults that will appeal to the same adventurous audiences drawn to productions such as Rocky Horror and Avenue Q.
SHINE celebrates the re-emerging arts of burlesque, cabaret, and variety with catchy songs, campy jokes and plenty of bump and grind. A sneak preview of SHINE (under its working title By the Seat of Our Panties) played to two enthusiastic, over-capacity audiences at the WISE Hall during the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival this past May.
"Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah. Make you wanna move your dancing feet now!"
We can't promise a tropical paradise, but we can promise a distinctly 'hot & sticky' flavour at our upcoming dance event. The Ceroc Beach Party will feature themed dance lessons, a Kits beach location (almost!), and a limbo competition. Woo hoo! Grab your beachwear, your towel, your friends and join us at the Billy Bishop Hall for a steamy night of fun.
Details: Friday July 24th, 7:30pm - 11:00pm, Billy Bishop Hall, 1407 Laburnum, KIts. $10/12. Licensed bar, DJs and air-con!
SDI presented “Sole 2 Soul in March 2007 and July 2008 performed by the Shiamak’s Bollywood Jazz Dance team in Vancouver , Which met with grand success and appreciation, a full house had the audience asking for a comeback of the production. “Sole 2 Soul” showcased dance pieces in Shiamak’s Indo Jazz, Shiamak’s Bollywood Jazz Dance styles and Shiamak’s Yoga- Inner Dance Movement.
This Year..
Shiamak Davar presents STARS OF BOLLYWOOD
July 25 & 26, 2009
Celebrating the drama, song, dance, energy and color of “Bollywood” with award winning choreography, costumes and props in Shiamak’s unique style.
