Archive of posts tagged "dance"

Vancouver International Dance Festival: Kokoro Dance

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Last night, at the Roundhouse Performance Centre, as part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Vancouver-based acclaimed choreographer and dancer Barbara Bourget (of Kokoro Dance) performed a very personal, transcendent expression of not just her fifty year creative life in dance, but also of life itself, called A Simple Way. Photo credit: Peter Eastwood Accompanied […]

Coastal First Nations Dance Festival 2013

Comments 8 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Dancers of Damelahamid, in partnership with the UBC Museum of Anthropology, present the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival, which is coming up next week. The festival celebrates First Nations music, dance, and culture through a series of school workshops, signature evening presentations, and afternoon festival stage performances. Photo: Courtesy of Dancers of Damelahamid The Dancers […]

Vancouver International Salsafestival

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The Vancouver International Salsafestival welcomes the global Latin dance movement through performances, parties, workshops, and more from March 7th to 10th at the Westin Bayshore. Salsafestival is expected to draw over 4,000 participants from beginners to pros and enthusiasts, mixing and mingling with 100 performers from 18 countries. Festivities kick off on Thursday March 7th […]

Valentine’s Day Dances for a Small Stage

Comments 22 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Dances for a Small Stage is a popular performance series renowned for bringing unique and innovative contemporary dance, inclusive of all disciplines, to a rough–and–tumble cabaret setting. They are preparing a special series just in time for Valentine’s Day that will examine all angles of the universal emotion of love – the good, the bad, […]

Vancouver Street Dance Festival 2012

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Vancouver’s first outdoor street dance festival launches this weekend with live performances and all the popping and locking you can handle. 2012 Vancouver Street Dance Festival from groovygcollection on Vimeo. “We’re trying to create an all-ages, all people party atmosphere on a Saturday afternoon in Vancouver.” This hip hop and breakdancing event takes place at […]