Vancouver celebrates International Dance Day with a series of vibrant performances, events and displays presented by The Dance Centre at venues around town. The events – many of them free – will showcase the diversity of BC’s dance scene. Highlights include Jennifer Clarke’s new work and a group dance and music improvisation at Scotiabank Dance Centre; Pop Up Dances at various locations around Granville Island; site specific work by Raven Spirit Dance Company in and around Coal Harbour Community Centre; classical East Indian dance performances with Mandala Arts and Culture at the Vancouver Public Library; and One Enchanted Evening, a South Pacific-themed fundraising event at Scotiabank Dance Centre.
Full details with the event schedule, locations and times can be viewed at www.thedancecentre.ca.
The innovative Vancouver trio The Tomorrow Collective presents an eclectic and entertaining evening of dance for the fifth edition of the Pulse series. Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, Katy Harris-McLeod and Mara Branscombe perform a new version of the audience favourite You Are Here, a trio choreographed by one of Canada’s finest dance artists, Susan Elliott; and each will also perform a dynamic new solo. The evening is an opportunity to catch three of Vancouver’s busiest dance artists on stage together, and to enjoy the contrasting performance styles and fresh energy the Collective has become known for.
Honouring our Grandmothers - March 8 - This magical evening will celebrate International Women’s Day and honour our special guests: Joy Coghill and Jeni Legon. Featuring vocalist Dalannah Gail Bowen, African dancer Jacky Essombe, award-winning aboriginal vocal group M’Girl, internationally-known writer Addena Sumter-Frietag and and Pakistani novelist Fazia Rafiq. Jeni and Joy will perform and share some stories. MC is Leon Bibb. St. Andrew’s Wesley Church, Burrard and Nelson, March 8, 7:30pm, Tickets $15 / $12 - Ticketmaster. 604.280.4444.
Like to dance? Think a German Cultural Centre would be an asset to Vancouver? Join us on Friday night, Feb 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pm in the Alpenclub (33rd/Victoria)for our first ever fundraising dance. We will dance to the hits of the 50's onward, do a limbo contest, sell raffle tickets (win cash!) and sell drinks.
Tickets are $10 each - encourage your friends to come as well!
Singles or couples welcome. Dance the polka, rock 'n roll, or just boogie to the beat.
Call Elke at 604 828 8788 to reserve a ticket number.
Chunky Move Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek and German interactive software engineer Frieder Weiß have together created an intimate interactive solo performance in which the motion of the human body is used to trigger and control music, lighting and animation. A digital landscape is generated in real time in response to the dancer’s movement, with the body’s gestures extended by and in turn manipulating the surrounding video world.
The relationship between the light and graphics and the human body changes throughout Glow. At first the dancer seems to control the magical display of light and geometric patterns, but gradually it becomes difficult to separate the elements of body and light, as movement, graphics and sound powerfully meld into a single entity. Then eerily, projected shadows take on a dramatic form of their own and begin to impact on the dancer’s behaviour.
UK-based Canadian director Carolyn Deby returns to Vancouver with her unique brand of ground-breaking site specific performance. Imbolc {in the belly} will lead audiences on a traveling urban performance experience around a sequence of downtown Vancouver locations hosting events and installations, in an investigation of the human relationship to nature within the urban environment. Also featuring video by Clancy Dennehy and performers from Vancouver and London, the work will reveal a series of thought-provoking images – a visual poetry examining the journey from death to new life, from darkness into light.
The work follows the massive critical and popular success of city:skinned which took audiences at the 2006 Dancing on the Edge Festival around the Downtown Eastside. So dress appropriately, and get ready for what promises to be an extraordinary experience!
The Dance Centre's popular noon hour series presents Metis dance companies Compaigni V'ni Dansi and the Louis Riel Metis Dancers, led by champion jigger Yvonne Chartrand. Info 604 606 6400 www.thedancecentre.ca; tickets from www.ticketstonight.ca.
Ekstasis Dance and Black Cat Productions present LUMINANCE IV, a multimedia Winter Solstice celebration that includes film, dance performance, original electronic music producers, DJs, an art gallery with live visionary art, original visuals, and much more.
When: Saturday Dec. 22, 2007
Doors @ 8:30pm, Film @ 9:00pm, Music @ 11:00pm
Where: The beautiful Faris Family Studio at the Scotiabank Dance Centre in downtown Vancouver, 677 Davie St.
Film
The evening begins at 9:00 pm with Black Cat presenting the film “Entheo:Genesis - Awakening the Divine Within,” which examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness, electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Imagining consciousness itself to be evolving, Entheo:Genesis documents the emergence of techno-shamanism in the post-modern world that frames the following questions: How can a renewal of ancient initiatory rites of passage alleviate our ecological crisis? What do trance dancing and festivals celebrating unbridled artistic expression speak to in our collective psyche? http://www.entheogen.tv
Massey Theatre
735 Eighth Avenue
New Westminster, BC V3M 2R2 www.masseytheatre.com
604-521-5050
Shiamak's Indo Jazz Dance Movement is a ‘one of a kind program’ training students in Jazz, Rap, Rock ‘n Roll, Afro Jazz and Salsa styles of exercise and dance. During this Workshop, students ages 4 to 64 are taught a complete dance routine and trained in the various disciplines of stage performance. As a finale to the workshop each and every participating student performs at the Winter Funk Shows.
Tickets are being sold for $20 & $15 only through Massey Theatre Ticketing Service, 604-521-5050.
The Dance Centre's 6th biennial Dance In Vancouver is a showcase of some of the city's most exciting companies, including battery opera, Kokoro Dance, Co. Vision Selective/The Holy Body Tattoo, Tara Cheyenne Performance and Wen Wei Dance. Performances, studio presentations, talks and events run November 14-18. For a full schedule visit www.thedancecentre.ca; performance tickets available from www.ticketstonight.ca.
