Global Dance Connections 3-Show Subscription 2025-26

GLOBAL DANCE CONNECTIONS SERIES 2025-26

3-SHOW SUBSCRIPTION
Book 3 shows for $92 (saving up to 20%) + $3 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

Justine A. Chambers
The Brutal Joy
Thursday-Friday February 5-6 | 8pm

The Brutal Joy unfurls Black line dancing and sartorial expression as intellectual discourse, reverie, and devotion to Black-living. Created by the acclaimed Vancouver-based choreographer Justine A. Chambers, the work is rooted in her childhood memories and is a collaboration with her Black matrilineal heritage. It centers dance and fashion as living counter-archives, and considers how movement and personal style are tools for self-determination and the reclamation of Black humanitarian value. A dazzling scored improvisation for dance, lighting, and sound, The Brutal Joy draws from the Electric Slide and Black dandyism as embodied knowledge sources for self-actualization in the present through a dance of future possibilities.

Justine A. Chambers is Associate Artist with The Dance Centre
Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Ame Henderson + Matija Ferlin
Show Gone
Friday-Saturday March 13-14 | 7pm

Collaborating across borders and disciplines, Canadian choreographer Ame Henderson and Croatian director Matija Ferlin are known for their playfully rigorous conceptual performances. In this new duet, they play with light and darkness to explore the felt experience of endings - political, social and personal ones. The “snap to black” and the revealed tableaux that follow become a motif exposing the impossibility of controlling the narrative. From endless endings gradually emerges the feeling of a beginning.

Presented with Vancouver International Dance Festival

Corporeal Imago
Drift
Thursday-Saturday May 21-23 | 8pm

Choreographers Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes unveil a striking world premiere in which the human form recedes into a scarred and shifting landscape. Drift unfolds through transfigured bodies, cosmic noise, and immersive atmospheric effects, conjuring the silent reign of ancestral whispers, unseen life, and planetary rhythms. With this latest work, the award-winning co-directors push the boundaries of physical and visual performance, imagining an altered ecology where movement becomes a quiet meditation on transformation.

Presented through the Artist-in-Residence program

FakeKnot
MY HOUSE
Friday-Saturday June 19-20 | 8pm

MY HOUSE is a bold new work by the award-winning queer, Canadian-Filipinx choreographer Ralph Escamillan (aka Kiki Legend OA Mother Posh Gvasalia and Canadian Mother Posh Basquiat). This fabulous performance celebrates Ballroom Culture, and the familial bonds embedded within the structure of a HOUSE. Bringing the BALL from the runway to the stage, the piece features Voguers from the Canadian Scene, with local Ballroom Commentators and DJs. Subversive, joyful, and playful, MY HOUSE uses the motif of trompe l’oeil to build fantasy, beats that make you pump, and movement that carries the liberating truth of being fully oneself on the floor.

Ralph Escamillan is Associate Artist with The Dance Centre

Photos L to R: Co.ERASGA/Yasuhiro Okada; Action at a Distance/David Cooper; Plastic Orchid Factory/Michael Slobodian; Justine A. Chambers/Rachel Topham; Ame Henderson + Matija Ferlin/Noel Pendawa; Corporeal Imago/Chris Randle; FakeKnot/Joe Bulawan