Next weekend, Friday and Saturday March 20 and 21, DanceHouse presents RUBBERBAND in their work titled Ever So Slightly. Choreographer Victor Quijada marshals the forces of ten extraordinary performers and live music from composer/DJ Jasper Gahunia and violinist William Lamoureux to take apart the mechanisms of compliance and control with near-surgical precision. One moment, the dancers look like inmates in an asylum, the next, street dance warriors in boiler-suited conformity. As bodies jerk and flail, dystopic contests of aggression and violence are stripped away. What emerges is a path towards genuine resistance and liberation. Check out the work here

“[Ever So Slightly], an amazing contemporary ballet of great depth, is without a doubt very demanding for the ten incredibly talented dancers.” – HuffPost Québec. At the Vancouver Playhouse, 8 pm. Tix. Speaking of Dance Pre-Show Talk 7:15 pm each night in the  Upper Lobby with host Pia Lo (Dance Journalist and Blogger, Globe Dancer) and guest Victor Quijada (Artistic Director and Choreographer, RUBBERBAND). Also, for dancers out there, check out masterclasses with RUBBERBAND.

Until Saturday, March 14, the 2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival presents Ferenc Fehér.
“The Station is a super-concentrated ‘interim’ microcosmos both inside and outside real space and time, depicting the incessantly restless state of an urban zombie and the cacophony of an outside world woven from a rich fabric of sounds (also created by Fehér); and in the centre of it all stands its quintessence that is the complex relationship between two people with their own internal rules, which they are all too ready to break at the drop of a hat.”-Orsolya BÁLINT, curator. At KW Production Studio, #10 – 111 W. Hastings St, 9:15 pm. Tix

There is much more to see at VIDF, including inDANCE’s Śiva kissed Viṣṇu Wednesday March 18 to Saturday March 21 , an original Bharatanatyam-inspired contemporary full-length duet choreographed by Hari Krishnan for dancers Arun Mathai and Sujit Vaidya. The work incorporates multi-media visual design and is performed to a commissioned global music soundscape by UK composer, Niraj Chag. At the Roundhouse Performance Centre, 8 pm. Tix

Tonight and tomorrow, March 13 and 14, the Dance Centre’s Global Dance Connections series presents Canadian contemporary dance master and choreographer Bill Coleman portrays a figure whose whole world is literally falling in around him in Dolhouse. Inhabiting a cluttered room which collapses and breaks at his every touch, he shares the stage with sound artist Gordon Monahan, whose unique score accompanies the descent into theatrical disintegration. Coleman resembles a modern fakir, as he suffers through painful yet comical situations on his way to sonic and visual chaos. Wildly original and virtually unclassifiable, Dollhouse encompasses tap dancing, performance art and sound installation, using mechanical and electronic objects, both handmade and found, to deliver surprising and dazzling images and rhythms. Check out an interview with Coleman in the Georgia Straight this week. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre, 8pm. Tix

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