EVENTS
The Dance Centre announces its 2025-2026 season
The Dance Centre’s 2025-2026 season presents a comprehensive program of exciting performances, accessible community programs, and creative residencies, featuring a diverse roster of artists working in a variety of dance genres. The Global Dance Connections series features Co.ERASGA, Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman, James Gnam/Plastic Orchid Factory, Justine A. Chambers, Ame Henderson + Matija Ferlin, Corporeal Imago and FakeKnot. The Discover Dance! noon hour series includes Sujit Vaidya, Flamenco Rosario, Idan Cohen/Ne. Sans Opera & Dance, and Danny Nielsen. Choreographic research is supported through residencies and labs, and residency exchanges with partners in Montreal, Toronto and New Zealand will support artistic growth and creative exchange. Community programs include the annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House and International Dance Day events, and The Power of Dance program workshops for schools, youth and seniors.
(Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver, September 2025 – June 2026)
World Premiere of Fall(se) Circ(us) | Choreography by Isak Enquist
Little Room Productions, in partnership with New Works and The Roundhouse Community Centre, presents Fall(se) Circ(us), the company’s inaugural performance work choreographed by Co-Director Isak Enquist, on stage March 21, 2026 at the Roundhouse Community Centre. The work explores rebellion against everyday complacency through shifting cycles of “work” and “rest,” inviting improvised movement as resistance. Enquist’s experimental language—combining Martial Arts, snowboarding style, and experimental floor work—is embodied by seven local performing artists.
(Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver BC, Mar. 21)
12 Minutes Max Studio Showing
The Dance Centre’s 12 Minutes Max program fosters the development of new dance works, along with critical feedback and community dialogue. This informal studio showing will share and discuss works in progress by dance artists Arno Kamolika and Akshaya Surve, Jamie Ranney, Nathan Coburn, and Rina Pellerin.
(Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St., Vancouver, Mar. 30)
lossy bodies with Company 605
Lisa Mariko Gelley and Josh Martin of Company 605 guide participants through movement vocabulary and approaches from their stage work lossy (2024). Through dialogue and guided physical exploration, they reflect on their artistic trajectory while navigating our digital migration, tracing how ideas become embodied in choreographic propositions and how questions generate form. Participants are invited to situate their own creative processes within this terrain.
(Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC, Apr. 1)
Dance Dialogues #3: Choreography and Coast Salish Art and Design with Tasha Faye Evans
The Dance Centre’s series of talks Dance Dialogues features a presentation by Indigenous artist Tasha Faye Evans. Tasha’s work initiates a choreographic study of Coast Salish art and design with master carvers and cultural mentors. Through dialogue and demonstration, Tasha will introduce her dance making methodology of landing and presencing based on the fundamental shapes and cultural teachings of the Salish eye. In this intimate gathering, witness ancestral shapes and storytelling translated in the body and carved into space, connecting us to these lands, culture, and all our relations. She will be joined by special guests including Sḵwx̱wú7mesh master carver Xwalacktun OBC.
(Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver, Apr. 8)
m/Other
Plastic Orchid Factory hosts mother and son, Gabby & Benjamin Kamino, in the evocative duet m/Other. The dance is simple: together naked they touch each other and try to “not-feel.” The duration of the dance is the length of a symphony they listen to together. The work stages questions around the importance of time as a substance, the value of an aged body on stage, and the psychic capability to hold and carry one another. Disclaimer: Full nudity.
(Left of Main, 211 Keefer St., Apr. 9—10)
DanceHouse and Vancouver New Music present Stephanie Lake Company’s Manifesto
DanceHouse and Vancouver New Music present the BC Premiere of Australia’s Stephanie Lake Company’s Manifesto, April 16 to 18, 2026, at 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. In a unique pairing, nine drummers and nine dancers—with backgrounds ranging from contemporary and ballet to salsa and hip hop, and from jazz and metal to classical and experimental—share the stage for this explosive full-length performance, summoning a cacophonic wall of sound composed by experimental music composer Robin Fox. Drawing inspiration from the primal connection between drumming and dance, the artists channel the glittering energy of old-time Hollywood extravaganzas for a tightly crafted and thrilling work.
(Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton St., Apr. 16–18)
DanceHouse announces 2026/27 season
DanceHouse announces its 2026/27 season of five evocative contemporary performances from some of the world’s leading dance companies, on stage at the Vancouver Playhouse from October 2026 through April 2027. An eclectic mix of dancemakers from Canada, the UK, Sweden, and India will explore pathways to liberation, from breaking free of conformity to uniting against an increasingly fractured world and embracing connection. The season includes the Vancouver premiere of Catherine Gaudet’s ODE, the Canadian premiere of Knitting Peace by Cirkus Cirkör, the North American premiere of Forbidden by Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company, the return of Kidd Pivot’s Assembly Hall, and the BC premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Deepstaria.
(Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton St., Oct. 2026–Apr. 2027)
