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Alberta Ballet’s Nutcracker is Classic Holiday Fun

2. Alberta Ballet Company Artists in The Nutcracker. Photo by Paul McGrath
December 30, 2017January 1, 2018
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Each year we have our choice of Nutcracker performances, all are worthy accompaniments to your festive antics, but the grandeur of Queen Elizabeth Hall and the sumptuousness of Alberta Ballet’s rendition is something special. In this much-loved tale, we follow

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Arts Club’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a Gorgeous Holiday Treat

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December 19, 2017December 19, 2017
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Beauty and the Beast has a long history in modern culture. The elegant, French, classic film made in 1946 with Josette Day and Jean Marais, the iconic Disney animated feature of 1991, and more recently, Emma Watson’s splendid 2017 film

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Little Dickens Gives “A Christmas Carol” a Jazzy Marionette Treatment

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December 8, 2017December 8, 2017
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At the Cultch this festive season we’re treated to Ronnie Burkett’s much-loved cast of marionettes in an errrm… “organic” retelling of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. I say organic because the original story is used more as a guideline for Burkett

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Lesley Telford & Inverso’s “Spooky Action Phase One”

Lesley Telford 3 by Cara Tench
December 8, 2017
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In the knowledge sharing, jargon pillaging world of the internet, different disciplines often reference one another. But even by today’s standards of cross-pollination, blending Quantum theory with dance is novel. Not to be deterred by a little impenetrably complex scientific

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Dance In Vancouver 2017 Highlights

Ziyian Kwan and Lihuen Kwan (her dad) cred David Cooper
December 1, 2017
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Last week in downtown Vancouver, The Dance Centre hosted talented choreographers and dancers so they could tell unique stories and blur the lines between genres of dance. We saw contemporary dance go places that we didn’t know existed. The visuals

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Wen Wei Wang’s “Dialogue” Leaves You Breathless

Wen Wei Dance 5 photo Chris Randle
November 29, 2017
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I have always struggled with how to describe dance in words, a medium that can stir in us, without the use of words, an understanding that is so innate, so visceral. How do you use language to describe something that

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The Delightful “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is Not Just For Kids!

LWW_ Sereana Malani (White Witch) & Chris Lam (Edmund) cred Tim Matheson
November 29, 2017November 29, 2017
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Carousel Theatre for Young People has officially ushered in the holiday season with the staging of C.S. Lewis’s much loved classic “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” at Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island. The show follows the magical escapades of

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