The Dance Centre

Flamenco Rosario
2025-12-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | The Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2G6, Canada
A trailblazing force in Vancouver’s flamenco scene for over 35 years, Flamenco Rosario honours the authentic traditions of flamenco while nurturing its evolution, crossing boundaries of history and cultures. Led by its celebrated Artistic Director Rosario Ancer, the company will share a powerful program of electrifying dance, emotional intensity, and stirring music.
Postponed from November 20: tickets are still valid for December 4.

Ileanna Sophia Cheladyn
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:00
Join us for Dance Dialogues – a three-part series of talks where artists and scholars delve into the ideas, practices, and provocations that shape contemporary dance and art-making. Engage with thought-provoking perspectives in an open space for critical inquiry and nuanced reflection.
Ileanna Sophia Cheladyn got lost in a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the dance community she’s called home for over a decade: the indie/experimental/contemporary/?? dance world of Vancouver.
Now, she fields questions from the field. Invisible forces, shifting relations, and the subtle ways bodies register change. A field can be land, a branch of knowledge, a zone of influence, or the space where a force takes hold. Here, it’s all of these at once.
This is a talk that thinks through fields that think about (other) fields, noticing how one field’s logic brushes against another’s. Be it the fields of anthropology and dance, or the fields of her gestures and ours. Each contact sparks a different choreography of bodies, bodyings, things to think with, and ways of knowing.

Eric Cheung
2025-11-28 20:00 - 2025-11-29 21:00
The recent Iris Garland Award-winning emerging choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Eric Cheung premieres his debut full-length work, Contra. Set within an ethereal world, Contra merges dance with interactive technologies, sculpting multi-laser projections and a sound-resonant water installation into an ever-changing environment.
Bringing together an exceptional group of artists and collaborators from diverse disciplines, the work features three distinct performers—Kinui Oiwa, Tegvaran Sooch, and Eric Cheung—whose backgrounds span Ballet, Contemporary, Street Dance, and abstract movement forms. Together, they craft singular characters that evolve through shifting layers of noise and precise low frequencies composed by Matthew Tomkinson.
PROGRAM

From the Cypher to the Screen
2025-11-21 17:00 - 21:30
Presented in partnership with FORM (Festival of Recorded Movement), this street dance event features a cypher competition and film screening. Join us in celebrating local and national street dance artists.
The night starts with an introductory Hip Hop workshop, warming up with grooves and two-steps before transitioning into a multi-style cypher and cypher competition, dancing to hip hop, house, funk, and disco music. The evening will culminate in a retrospective screening of street dance-centred films that have screened at FORM over the past 10 years. These films act as a living archive of street dance in Canada, commemorating the culture and people who shape the community.
With MC Antonio
Hip Hop Workshop with Kristen ‘Katchflow’: 5-5.30pm
Cypher & Cypher Competition: 5.30-6.45pm
Screening: 7-8pm
Live talkback facilitated by Kosi Eze: 8-8.30pm

Katria Phothong-McKinnon
2025-11-17 19:00 - 2025-11-21 21:00
Impetus is an interdisciplinary installation that explores identity, digital existence and cultural preservation through the meeting points of classical Thai dance, Voguing, w*acking and new media. At the heart of the work are two 16 x 16 x16 LED matrix cubes: one manufactured, embodying a digital record of movement, the other hand soldered, symbolizing presence beyond what is seen and the hidden labour behind technology. Together, they aim to reveal and explore how cultural and human experiences are fragmented, mediated, and constrained within digital and non digital systems.
Visitors are welcome to drop in at any time and stay as long as they wish. The installation runs on a 10-minute loop. Capacity in the space is limited. Depending on attendance, there may be a short wait.
Artist Talk with Katria Phothong-McKinnon facilitated by Sophia Mai Wolfe Wednesday November 19 | 7.30-8.30pm.

20th Annual Louis Riel Day Celebration
2025-11-15 19:00 - 21:30
V’ni Dansi will once again be returning for the 20th annual Louis Riel Day celebration! Join us for an event filled with dance, culture, and fun for the whole family.
This milestone event will feature Garry Lepine, renowned Métis fiddler and storyteller from Manitoba, and Maria Campbell, acclaimed Métis author, playwright, and Elder from Saskatchewan. Each will offer a solo performance reflecting their unique artistic practice and cultural legacy.
The evening will also feature V’ni Dansi’s own Louis Riel Métis Dancers, performing both traditional Métis jigging and contemporary choreographies that honour our heritage and cultural continuity.

Sujit Vaidya
2025-10-23 12:00 - 13:00
Sujit Vaidya’s practice is firmly rooted in the Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam, and he works within and beyond traditional repertoire with artistry and rigour. This stimulating presentation will offer a conversation between past and present, with excerpts from dances passed down through the generations as well as new creations, accompanied by live music from Curtis Andrews (Mridangam – drum), Arno Kamolika (Nattuvangam – cymbals), Sheema Balakrishnan (vocals) and Shriram Rajagopalan (violin).

Justine A. Chambers and Ryan Tacata: Patterning
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:00
Join us for Dance Dialogues – a three-part series of talks where artists and scholars delve into the ideas, practices, and provocations that shape contemporary dance and art-making. Engage with thought-provoking perspectives in an open space for critical inquiry and nuanced reflection.
Justine A. Chambers and Ryan Tacata (friends, academic colleagues, and art collaborators) speak to, with, and through their overlapping creative practices. Framed by gestures and forms produced by garments and garment-making techniques, they weave their way through a conversation, stitching together musings on artistic practice and everyday life.

Co.ERASGA
2025-10-09 20:00 - 2025-10-10 21:00
A visionary world premiere from Co.ERASGA, Eternal Gestures is a trilogy of evocative solo works commissioned from Indigenous Coast Salish-based choreographers Starr Muranko, Michelle Olson and Margaret Grenier, and performed by Artistic Director Alvin Erasga Tolentino.
This poetic work uplifts the voices of Indigenous women, asserts our deep connection to the land, and speaks to truth, healing, and the decolonization of art. Tolentino’s captivating performance becomes both a spiritual journey and a vessel for knowledge-sharing. This milestone production celebrates Co.ERASGA’s 25th anniversary and reaffirms the company’s fierce commitment to cross-cultural, experimental dance which explores identity, ancestry, and the environment.
Post-show artist talkback October 10.

Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House
2025-09-13 12:00 - 17:00
The 24th annual Open House offers a chance to experience a host of different dance styles, in an afternoon of free classes, showings and events at Scotiabank Dance Centre, one of Canada’s flagship dance facilities. Participating companies and artists include Co.ERASGA, Claire French/Restless Productions, Bharata Natyam artist Vidya Kotamraju, and more.
Special guest performance at 4pm by Poland’s Krakow Dance Theatre: Shakespearia, a re-imagining of the inner worlds of Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and Juliet.
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Photos: Company 605/Lisa Gelley; Krakow Dance Theatre/Grzegorz Mart; Pop Queen Cardio/courtesy of the artist; soma anima arts/Em Welz; Vidya Kotamraju/Stephani Cragg

SummerSpace
2025-08-28 08:00 - 20:00
Artists taking part in our SummerSpace program share and talk about their choreographic research projects in a series of informal showings, followed by a meet-the-artists gathering on the patio.
SummerSpace supports emerging and mid-career dance artists by providing fully subsidized studio space for research, experimentation and the development of new ideas.
No registration required, drop ins are welcome throughout the event.
Program:
5-5.30pm Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴
5.30-6pm Aditi Chaudhury
6-6.30pm Carla Alcántara
6.30-7pm Fiana Kawane/ Riyaaz Collective
7-7.30pm Lyzah and Lamont
Photos: Fiana Kawane/Sheng Ho; Aditi Chaudhury/Manish Soni; Carla Alcantara/Rodrigo Picazo; Lyzah and Lamont/Emily Welz; Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴/Cole Schmidt

Natalia Martineau
2025-08-07 18:00
How do you feel being perceived?
Do you feel at home in your own body?
Can you exist in an arbitrary mould?
Dance artist Natalia Martineau, sound artist/performer Aysha Dulong and actor/sound artist Cindy Kao’s research project draws from their personal experiences navigating colonial binaries of race, sexuality, and gender to question what it means to perform the self and how we may be perceived as ‘other’ when entering new spaces. The artists will share and discuss their research in this informal showing.

Global Dance Connections Subscriptions
2025-07-15 08:00 - 2026-03-09 17:00
Our Global Dance Connections series features exciting dance works by artists from across Canada. Subscribe to secure your seat and get the best prices!
If your schedule changes, you can change your booking to a different performance of the same show at no charge (subject to availability).
Oct 9-10 Co.ERASGA
Jan 26-27 Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman
Jan 30-31 Plastic Orchid Factory/James Gnam
Feb 5-6 Justine A. Chambers
Mar 13-14 Ame Henderson Projects + Provincija
May 21-23 Corporeal Imago
June 19-20 FakeKnot
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Discover Dance! Subscriptions
2025-07-15 08:00 - 2025-10-23 11:00
Our popular noon hour series offers informative and inspiring shows by BC dance companies and artists. It’s a great introduction to a wide range of dance genres at an unbeatable price!
October 23 Sujit Vaidya
November 20 Flamenco Rosario
March 5 Idan Cohen/Ne. Sans Opera & Dance
May 7 Danny Nielsen
Book all 4 shows for $52 (+ $1 facility fee per ticket) and save up to 25%.
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12 Minutes Max
2025-06-23 18:00
12 Minutes Max aims to foster experimentation and the development of new dance works, along with critical feedback and community dialogue. Dance artists Aditi Chaudhury & Sudnya Mulye, Jullianna Oke, Jhoely Triana Flamenco, and Krystal Tsai will share and discuss their work in an informal studio showing.
Photo: Aditi Chaudhury & Sudnya Mulye by Manish Soni; Jullianna Oke by Metta Rose Photography; Jhoely Triana Flamenco courtesy of the artist; Krystal Tsai by Czarina Agustines.

BaharBod
2025-06-21 19:00 - 21:30
Join us for an evening of music, connection, and celebration. We begin in a shared circle, welcomed by the voices of the land’s First Peoples. Hands touch earth—planting more than just seeds. And as dusk settles, soulful melodies rooted in Persian tradition carry us home.

Company 605 + The Human Expression
2025-06-05 20:00 - 2025-06-07 17:00
Vancouver’s Company 605 and Singapore’s The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company join forces for a thrilling new international creation. Envisioned and choreographed by Anthea Seah (T.H.E) and Josh Martin (Company 605), Sloth Canon brings together performers and collaborators from both cities to seek out what it means to build and to break.
A fragmented team of five is determined to “keep it together” as their bodies are propelled by unnatural momentum, and their bubble of fantasy drifts towards the spike of reality. What happens when imagination exceeds capacity? When ambitions threaten to burst under their own weight? When the sin of slowness collides with the pressure to produce? Sloth Canon is hellbent on building forward – while simultaneously falling apart.
Post-show artist talkback June 6.
PROGRAM

Workshops with The Human Expression
2025-05-26 10:00 - 11:30
Dance in the studio with T.H.E. Dance Company, Singapore’s leading contemporary dance company, founded by Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon. Dance artists at T.H.E are immersed in the Company’s signature methodology, HollowBodyTM, which guides them to access their deeper instincts and impulses through movement. The Company’s movement vocabulary is distinct in its intensely personal aesthetics, yet thrilling in its diversity.
Come and learn from T.H.E. Dance Company in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The workshops are designed for professional and pre-professional level dancers.
Presented in partnership with Company 605 and through the Training Society of Vancouver’s Special Delivery program.

West Coast Tap
2025-05-24 19:00, 2025-05-24 16:00 - 17:00
Our show, ‘For the Love of Tap’, will feature local professionals and local community groups. At the show, we will be honouring Travis Knights, who is joining us for the weekend.
We are offering 12 great workshops on Saturday and Sunday. Check out our Memberships & Workshops page to sign up. Workshops will take place on the 7th floor of the Scotiabank Dance Centre. There are advanced beginner/intermediate and intermediate/advanced workshops to choose from.

Open Stage #5
2025-05-12 19:00
The fifth edition of Open Stage features a program of exciting and varied dance works by Amok Project, Kara Wiebe (La Picante), Krystal Tsai, and Punit. Open Stage is a program of The Dance Centre, offering the opportunity for dance artists to present short works in an uncurated, shared performance.

Y2Cali Kiki Ball
2025-04-26 15:00 - 17:00
Welcome to the Y2Cali Kiki Ball, where the glamour of Beverly Hills’s rich and famous meets the wild 2000s. Designer drama, tabloid scandals, and iconic pop culture moments defined a generation. It’s all about money, fame, and messy reality TV energy—red carpet arrivals, paparazzi chases, and juicy drama of Hollywood’s elite. From the sun-soaked beaches of Malibu to the velvet rope exclusivity of LA’s hottest clubs, bring looks and attitude – rich, reckless, and ridiculously iconic. In the 2000s, Southern California was not just about looking at the part but about playing the game.

POSTPONED: Danny Nielsen
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00
Back by popular demand! Tap dance star Danny Nielsen’s vibrant collaboration with pianist/percussionist Kristian Alexandrov, In Conversation, delves into the symbiotic relationship between tap and jazz. They will share excerpts from this fresh take on a beloved art form: a wonderful celebration of tap and musical artistry which delighted audiences last season. With Miles Hill on bass, and lighting design by Jack Chipman.
This show is postponed: new dates TBA.
Photos by Chris Randle

Riaz Rhemtulla
2025-04-22 19:00 - 2025-04-23 17:00
Kathak dancer Riaz Rhemtulla, as part of his doctoral research in Arts Education at SFU, presents the tale of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by the 12th century Al- Andalucian Muslim Scholar Ibn Tufayl.
With Monish Chakravarty (Tabla), Mohan Bhide (Harmonium), Nawaaz Nathoo (Sitar), and Vasundhara Rawat (vocals).

Lighting Design with James Proudfoot
2025-04-09 13:00 - 16:00
James Proudfoot is Vancouver’s leading lighting designer in dance and has designed for dances in festival formats to full evening performances. Learn the different ways that lighting can support your work and learn the terminology to effectively communicate your ideas to a lighting designer.
This hands-on workshop will take place in our black-box theatre (Faris Family Studio), where participants will have the opportunity to prepare for a lighting hang, learn about focusing lights, and how to use lighting to create different moods and looks, structure the space, and support the physical and thematic aspects of choreography.
Capacity is very limited, early registration strongly advised.
REGISTER: Contact: 604.606.6416 or members[at]thedancecentre[dot]ca

12 Minutes Max
2025-04-07 18:00
12 Minutes Max aims to foster experimentation and the development of new dance works, along with critical feedback and community dialogue. Dance artists Dania Grant, Natalia Martineau, and Akshaya Surve will share and discuss their work in an informal studio showing.
Facilitators: Ziyian Kwan and Tasha Faye Evans
Photo: Akshaya Surve/Prakash Patil; Natalia Martineau/Chelsea Stuyt; Dania Grant/Payton Kennedy

Gaurav Bhatti
2025-03-28 20:00 - 2025-03-29 17:00
Working at the intersection of the North Indian classical form of Kathak and contemporary dance, Gaurav Bhatti is known for virtuosic performances which encompass explosive energy, dramatic complexity, and eloquent emotion. His new solo is inspired by the life and poetry of the 18th-century Sufi mystic Bulleh Shah, who spoke out against powerful institutions, and advocated for tolerance at a time of violent religious strife.
Integrating Kathak, Punjabi folk dances, and Western movement forms, Bhatti applies his distinctive contemporary sensibility to reassert Shah’s enduring message of universal love, and pays homage to the rich artistic heritage of the Punjab.
Post-show artist talkback March 29.
PROGRAM

Arts Umbrella Dance Company
2025-03-09 15:30 - 17:00
Enjoy a thrilling showcase of new and innovative works-in-progress by leading Canadian and international choreographers. Arts Umbrella Dance Company is joined in this performance by Arts Umbrella Pre-Elementary dancers and very special guests from Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre!

SHIAMAK Vancouver
2025-02-27 12:00 - 13:00
Exuberance, comedy, drama, colour, fun – it’s Bollywood! Originally springing from India’s legendary film industry, Bollywood dance is a worldwide phenomenon. SHIAMAK Vancouver blends in jazz, funk, folk and modern influences to deliver wildly entertaining performances that are guaranteed to get your toes tapping.
Photos by Peter So

12 Minutes Max
2025-02-24 18:00
12 Minutes Max aims to foster experimentation and the development of new dance works, along with critical feedback and community dialogue. Join us for an informal studio showing, to see and discuss works in progress by:
André Bessette and Lyric Tsuji
Asal Ahadi and Shalaleh Rismani
Photos: André Bessette/Chris Randle, property of V’ni Dansi; Asal Ahadi/Carla Alcántara
