What the day owes to the night (Ce que le jour doit à la nuit)

April 7 & 8, 2017; 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse

Speaking of Dance Pre-show talk: 7:15 pm, upper lobby with Hervé Koubi (Artistic Director, Compagnie Hervé KOUBI) & Kaija Pepper (Editor, Dance International Magazine)

Twelve Algerian and Burkina Faso dancers, mostly coming from street dance and hip-hop, perform in this contemporary dance work that takes its name from an eponymous 2008 novel by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra. Through his dancers, choreographer Hervé Koubi explores his own Algerian origins and journey in a piece that combines capoeira, martial arts, urban and contemporary dance with evocative Islamic imagery

Works by Foniadakis, Galili and Pederneiras

February 24 & 25, 2017, 8PM
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)</h3

Speaking of Dance Pre-Show Talk 7:15PM each night in the Vancouver Playhouse Upper Lobby
Guests: Louis Robitaille and Janet Smith

Last presented by DanceHouse in 2013, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (BJM) returns with a triple bill. Rouge, choreographed by Rodrigo Pederneiras of Brazilian company Grupo Corpo, is direct, genuine and raw, an ode to resilience and a tribute to indigenous peoples and their musical and cultural legacy. For Kosmos, Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis finds inspiration in the world around us and the excitement people experience every day in a city; moments of reunion, gathering and let go. In Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili’s Mono Lisa, two dancers execute incredible acrobatics in a factory-like atmosphere filled with sounds and visions of iron and steel – a breathtaking pas de deux executed with absolute mastery.

Top photo: BJM, Kosmos © Raphaelle Bob Garcia.</p>

Mixed Repertoire

October 28 & 29, 2016, 8PM
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)

Speaking of Dance Pre-Show Talk 7:15PM each night in the Vancouver Playhouse Upper Lobby
Guests: Clifton Brown and Deborah Meyers

New York City’s Jessica Lang Dance has become one of the most respected and acclaimed American dance troupes for works that are both genuinely moving and visually arresting. Jessica Lang Dance make their Canadian debut in Vancouver with a program of mixed repertoire that includes their latest work—Thousand Yard Stare. This piece for nine dancers, set to Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, Opus 132, honours those affected by war.

Program:

• Lines Cubed (2012)
• The Calling (excerpt from Splendid Isolation II) (2006)
• Thousand Yard Stare (2016)
• White (Film) (2011)
• i.n.k. (2011)

Top photo: Jessica Lange Dance, The Calling © Takao Komaru.