Archive of posts tagged "dance"

Summer 2013: Free Dance Events at Robson Square

Comments 2 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Thanks to Salsa Vancouver and DanceSport BC, free dance events return to Robson Square this summer. You can learn to salsa and waltz on hot summer nights or show off your seasoned moves. You don’t need to have experience or even a partner although these events are a perfect compliment to a date night in […]

Dancing On the Edge Festival 2013

Comments 30 by Rebecca Bollwitt

This summer Vancouver will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Dancing on the Edge Festival that has brought over 400 different dance artists and choreographers to our stages. Talented members of the dance industry have traveled from across Canada, Japan, Germany, Venezuela, Mexico, Wales, the United States, Poland and China to join local artists each […]

Ceroc Around the Clock: Kitsilano Showboat Fundraiser

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Join Ceroc Vancouver on Saturday, April 27, 2013 for a 12-hour dance-a-thon fundraiser for the Kitsilano Showboat amphitheatre called Ceroc Around the Clock: Participants can enjoy different dance lessons every hour from 12:00pm to 7:00pm, and a dance party with performances from 8:00pm to 12:00am. COBS Bread will be sponsoring and providing free sustenance. Where […]

Vancouver International Dance Festival: Kokoro Dance

Comments 1 by Michelle Kim
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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 […]