Dance In Vancouver 2024 2-Show Package

The Dance Centre presents the 14th biennial

DANCE IN VANCOUVER 

2-SHOW PACKAGE
Book any 2 DIV mainstage shows for $59 (save 20%) + $2 facility improvement fee

Accessibility: Performances take place in the Faris Family Studio, our intimate black box theatre space, which is wheelchair-accessible. When booking tickets, patrons who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids should select the ‘accessible’ seat type to ensure seating in the front row which is stair-free: limited spaces available. There are wheelchair-accessible washrooms in the theatre lobby. Please contact us if you require any assistance.

SHOW DETAILS

Company 605: lossy
Wednesday November 20 | 8pm

lossy is about an inability to take it all with us. The performers are bodies at a loss, grasping for an anchor, and haunted by the ghostly traces of lost futures. Shifting between bursts of intense fragmented movement and moments of stillness, driven by the pulsating score, they capture the essence of our uncertain times.

This compelling work represents a warped ritual of transcendence – a carefree conjuring of a shiny new future ‘us’, and a grieving for what the future may no longer hold, once we finally arrive.

• Duration: 55 minutes.
• Includes haze and flashing lights.

DIV Double Bill:
FakeKnot: Croquis
Odd Meridian Arts: Tendrils
Thursday November 21 | 8pm

A quick sketch of a garment, a ‘croquis’ is often the first step towards bringing an idea into tangible reality. In Ralph Escamillan’s innovative solo, the pencil is the body and the paper a modular canvas - dissecting the desire to imprint oneself into physical space. Central to the work is a garment constructed entirely out of paper, inspired by the historic ball gown skirt which evokes celebration, femininity and pomp, as well as a type of confinement and mourning.

Created and performed by Ziyian Kwan, Tendrils is the first in a series of works that that are odes to artists whose inspirational writings, teachings, and practices are living toolkits for survival and hope. Ziyian brings her signature imagery and shape-shifting presence to this solo that responds to her correspondence with dance icon Tedd Robinson, and to gifts from his performance archive that were posthumously distributed to colleagues across Canada. Tendrils is medicine for the healer in each of us.

• Duration: Approx 60 minutes including pause

Lee Su-Feh: Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go
Friday November 22 | 8pm

Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go is
an algorithm for dancing with the planet
an algorithm for dancing with your beloved
an algorithm for dancing from enough-ness

In this multi-media lecture-performance, Lee Su-Feh talks about this algorithm, teaches it, performs it. Along the way, the audience is invited (but not coerced!) into an immersive ritual of breathing, listening, moving, singing together.

• Duration: 90 minutes

Anya Saugstad: Paper Mountains
Saturday November 23 | 8pm
Presented through the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award

Created by the award-winning young choreographer Anya Saugstad, Paper Mountains is a new ensemble work inspired by the concept of fragmentation and disintegration.

The movement is drenched in vigorous and urgent physicality, with a stirring score by Stefan Nazarevich and an innovative visual design.

• Duration: 50 minutes.
• Includes haze.

Photos L to R: Anya Saugstad's Paper Mountains/Bray Jorstad; Company 605/David Cooper; FakeKnot/David Cooper; Odd Meridian Arts/David Cooper; Lee Su-Feh/Sophia Wolfe.