Dance
CENTRE STAGE: Small Stage and Ballet BC join forces
June 24, 2016Ballet BC dancers have a long history of appearing in Dances for a Small Stage shows. Peter Smida, Maggie Forgeron, and Makaila Wallace, among others, have graced the small stage, but this is the second time the two companies have formally collaborated on a show. In 2010, shortly after Emily Molnar had taken over Ballet BC, she connected with others in the dance community, including Small Stage artistic producer, Julie-anne Saroyan, and their companies joined forces for the first time. This time, the dancers are together as an ensemble, choreographing works on each other and driving the creative process and…
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CENTRE STAGE: Pre-professional CatchingART Contemporary Ballet shows off aspiring talent in West Vancouver
June 6, 2016Dancing a famous pas de deux from Le Corsaire at the Pro Arte Gala, Ethan Ponton and Cassia Slager of CatchingART Contemporary Ballet Theatre looked ready to step into professional roles. Slager effortlessly performed her turns and jumps while Ponton…
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Liam Scarlett’s Frankenstein is a thrilling new work for the Royal Ballet
May 31, 2016Hollywood has taken Frankenstein and turned it into a horror story featuring an iconic green monster with bolts sticking out the sides of his neck. But Mary Shelley’s original novel, as choreographer Liam Scarlett emphasizes, is more of a love…
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Flicker magnifies indigenous dance in a multimedia performance
May 30, 2016Culture is always evolving, ‘flickering’ between what it was and what it is becoming. Dancers of Damelahamid carefully negotiate this in-between space in their new work Flicker, which premiered at the Cultch Historic Theatre on May 25. The work is…
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SFYou: An interview with SFU’s dancing queen, Melissa Panetta
May 30, 2016As she sipped her green tea across from me, I got to know an extremely down-to-earth and light-hearted person, who dares to ask for what she wants in life. Melissa Panetta, a professional dancer by trade, has done everything from…
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CENTRE STAGE: Ballet BC closes 30th anniversary season and young talent shines in Arts Umbrella’s Expressions Festival
May 26, 2016Program 3 – Ballet BC May 12–14, Queen Elizabeth Theatre Program 3 closes Ballet BC’s 30th anniversary season. Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo’s I and I am You and artistic director Emily Molnar’s 16 + a room are remounts first seen…
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Big Wild is a professor of EDM
May 23, 2016Electronic house DJ Big Wild graced Vancity on May 7 with a performance at Fortune Sound club. Has my life changed since then? No. Do I have a new perspective? YES. Just as I thought I knew what to expect,…
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CENTRE STAGE: Ballet Kelowna teams up with Continuum Contemporary Music and Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits presents ReVoLt
May 16, 2016Renaissance – Ballet Kelowna Chutzpah! PLUS May 4–6, Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre Since becoming artistic director and CEO in 2014, former Ballet BC dancer Simone Orlando has led Ballet Kelowna to become a mature company presenting stunning contemporary choreography.…
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The Floating Points really are an experience
May 16, 2016If you like electronic instrumental music, not dancing, and spirographs, then this was the show for you! The Floating Points sound like Pink Floyd travelled in a time machine to present day, studied jazz at Capilano, and acquired an assortment…
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CENTRE STAGE: Just Words melds poetry and dance; flamenco, Irish tap, and belly dance share the stage in Encuentros
May 9, 2016Just Words – Les Productions Figlio April 27–30, Firehall Arts Centre Serge Bennathan steps to the front of the Firehall stage, a spotlight on him as he picks up a sheet of paper. He reads off a letter that he…
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