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MAR 2–9

Charles Koroneho

Aotearoa [New Zealand]

Live-digital performance installation at MOA's Haida House, exploring the concepts of digital artifacts and Indigenous futurism.

MAR 5+7

Salome Nieto + Julio Medina

Vancouver/United States

Butoh and autoethnographic dance artists collaborate on a duet exploring their Mexican heritage and living in the diaspora.

MAR 5+7

Hoor Malas

Syria/Montreal

Drawing from Middle Eastern roots, this solo invites audiences to contemplate the profound impact of cultural heritage on individual expression.

MAR 5+7

Lorin Sookool

South Africa

Autobiographical solo where movement traces and unpacks the violent erasure of Black African identity.

MAR 5+7

Elie-Anne Ross

Montreal

Dance-theare solo by an influential woman in the Popping street dance style, uses stream of consciousness to reclaim body and mind.

MAR 11+12

Luciana Freire D’Anunciação + Kelly McInnes

Vancouver/Brazil

Duet where bodies, breath and voice evoke symbiosis, interspecies kinship and reciprocal ecology.

MAR 6+8

Charlie Khalil Prince

Lebanon/Montreal

Solo combining dance and music that observes the body as a site of resistance, the surface where ideas and action meet.

MAR 6+8

We All Fall Down

Montreal

Street and contemporary dance collide in an exploration of human connection supported by live music blending jazz, hip hop and drum’n’bass.

MAR 8

Stage Crasher Dance Party!

w/ the BEST Vancouver DJs

Audiences and artists come together after the first week of shows to dance the night away.

MAR 9

The Xchange: Street Dance Crew Exhibition Battle

Canada/United States

FREE event at 312 Main, experience the essence of being in a crew and the community connections that are street dance's roots.

MAR 11+13

Sujit Vaidya

Vancouver/United States

Dance and music ensemble celebrates Mogra (Indian Jasmine), opening up a world for sensuality, vulnerability and queer fantasy.

MAR 11+13

Ziyian Kwan/Odd Meridian

Vancouver

An homage to how the inspirational writings, teachings, and practices of artists are living tool-kits for survival and hope—medicines for the healer in each of us.

MAR 11+13

little house/heather stewart

United States/Canada

Solo traversing physical discomfort and duration to make visible the marks that are left behind by addiction and recovery.

MAR 12+14

Shion Skye Carter + Miya Turnbull

Vancouver/Halifax

Dance and visual arts duet exploring the artists' Japanese-Canadian heritage, personal experiences and traditional rituals like the tea ceremony.

MAR 12+14

BRKFST

United States

Group work utilizing breaking—hip hop’s first dance form—to illustrate complex dynamics between family and friends as life’s tasks pile up.

MAR 13+14

Mile Zero Dance

Edmonton

Dance, music and digital installation that presents the vulnerability of the human body facing climate change, providing both a lament and warning.

MAR 15

BlackOut Collective

Vancouver

Vogue Ball centering LGBTQIA2S+ BIPOC communities, featuring walkers, DJs, MCs and the city’s first all-Black judges panel.

MAR 21+22

Belle Spirale w/ Fernando Hernando Magadan

Vancouver/Spain

Contemporary ballet DOUBLE BILL at the Vancouver Playhouse featuring an ensemble of eight local dancers emerging onto the international scene.

MARCH 5 — 15, 2025

Celebrating 25 years!

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