dance vancouver

Footloose from Main to Granville

Site-specific dance: it’s dance outside the studio, outside the theatre, outside of the controlled environments where you would expect to see it. Site-based dance brings dancing bodies out to engage with the world in all of its complexities. Look around. Where are you right now? What architecture do you see around you? What are the people around you doing? What did this site look like 10 years ago, or 100 years ago? These are some of the questions dance artists consider when creating site-specific dance, one method of contemporary dance. “Moving dance offstage is exciting because it allows it to…

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