Dance

Group posing in athleisure inside a gym.
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Try your hand at trial week

Peak Web February 1, 2024

SFU Recreation is hosting this spring semester’s trial week from January 15–20. Trial week is a five-day free of charge look at some of the recreation programs being held for the rest of the semester. It gives students and members of the community the chance to sample activities they might like before committing to a class schedule and its associated fee. Students who pay the fee for classes before January 22 receive an early bird discount. To participate in trial week, students must register for classes and sign the athletic waiver online. This semester’s schedule includes 29 classes, including multiple…

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Need to Know, Need to Go: March 11–April 2

Peak Web March 10, 2023

Vintage postcard writing workshop (free) Saturday, March 11, 3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. / Geist office at 111 West Hastings St., Vancouver Canadian quarterly publication, Geist and their writer-in-residence, Christine Lai, invites you to join this complementary writing workshop inspired by their…

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A group of shirtless dancers with black pants lift two dancers up.
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Alan Lake Factorie presents Le Cris des Méduses

Peak Web February 20, 2023

Le Cris des Méduses is a 19th century romantic painting come to life through choreography and art direction by Alan Lake Factori(e). An interpretation of French romantic painter Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa (1819), the haunting performance featured…

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Need to Know, Need to Go: Events happening in December

Peak Web November 24, 2022

Flourish Together: A QTBIPoC Arts Market When: December 17, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Where: Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street (in person and online vendors) Massy Arts Society, Massy Books, and JotikaArt present this exciting holiday arts market with…

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Shion Skye Carter posing in white paper garments in front of a black background
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Shion Skye Carter embodies a brushstroke in Residuals (住み・墨)

Peak Web November 16, 2022

Residuals (住み・墨) culminates as Shion Skye Carter pulls out a delicate paper dress and puts it on to dance. Presented through The Dance Centre’s Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award, this captivating solo dance performance at the Scotiabank Dance Centre marks…

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Need to Know, Need to Go: June 10-14

Peak Web June 10, 2019

We are by which we are moved in return by MACHiNENOiSY This dance performance explores what movement means in today’s geological age, where human activity dominates the global environment — otherwise known as the anthropocene. Informed by contemporary dialogues in…

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Compagnie Marie Chouinard captivates Vancouver Playhouse with Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights

EIC March 23, 2019

  Hieronymus Bosch’s surrealist triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights has been marvelled at for its imaginative details. With Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s choreography, it lets the public experience the spirit of the painting through a unique dance performance full of…

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SFU alumna Vanessa Goodman presents world premiere at SFU Woodward’s

EIC November 23, 2017

In this exciting new dance work that took three years to make, SFU Woodward’s Cultural Program has partnered with Dance House and SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts to present the world premiere of Action at a Distance’s Wells Hill…

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Ballet BC’s resident choreographer presents world premiere

EIC November 2, 2017

Ballet BC’s resident choreographer Cayetano Soto is presenting a new one-act ballet, Eight Years of Silence, during Program 1 of the company’s 32nd season. Also opening the season is a work from Johan Inger, B.R.I.S.A. Ballet BC audiences have previously…

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Flamenco Festival brings international stars to Vancouver

EIC September 11, 2017

For over 25 years, Flamenco Rosario has been bringing together local and international artists for an annual celebration of the Spanish music and movement of flamenco. This year’s Vancouver International Flamenco Festival from September 11 to 24 features Spain’s La…

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