By Kristen Lawson Ballet BC closed their home season, at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre May 11-13, with two bold and playful works that premiered in Los Angeles on May 6. Both featured the entire company, putting the dancers through their paces using song, dance, and theatrical elements all at once. The choreographers clearly had fun
By Anne-Marie Elmby In June, nine Royal Danish Ballet dancers travelled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, organized by Cultural Adventures Copenhagen, which was founded in 2017 by former dancers Morten Eggert and Christian Hammeken. In July, another group from the company visited the Joyce Theater in New York, a trip organized by Ulrik Birkkjær (now a
By Kaija Pepper Three well-established theatrical festivals dominate the dance landscape at the beginning of every year in Vancouver, starting with PuSh International Performing Arts in mid-January. Two popular shows at PuSh were the one-woman solo, Pour, at Scotiabank Dance Centre’s black-box studio-theatre, and the group spectacle, The Eternal Tides, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.