Kidd Pivot‘s Revisor, a twinned hybrid of dance and theatre fuelled by the classic tropes of political satire created by Choreographer Crystal Pite and Writer/Director Jonathon Young, opens in less than one week, running Wednesday, March 30 – Saturday, April 2. Friday and Saturday are almost sold out, so book your seats today! It is a funhouse mirror, a horror show, a comedy that is no longer funny. More than just an excoriating takedown of human venality, Revisor pulls apart the very foundations of the creative impulse, itself a form of obsessive control. As the architecture of farce falls away, what emerges is the raw truth of the body. Check out the teaser here, and this great interview in Stir where Crystal Pite speaks about Revisor, her work, and some of her plans for the future. At the Vancouver Playhouse, 8 pm. Tix

The Vancouver International Dance Festival continues until March 26, so you still have a couple of days to get a show or two in! Senescence, is a beautiful duet between Olivia Shaffer and Alex Mah in which dance, spoken word, live and electronic music are woven together to contemplate liminal spaces that surround the final stages of life. The work asks the question, what is a good life if one loses the ability to determine that life for themself. Emerging from the experience of caregiving for my father, who had dementia and Parkinson’s disease, the work reflects the metamorphosis that occurs as essential features of one’s selfhood are stripped away. Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/): the gradual process of deterioration that occurs in the aging mind and body. Watch a trailer of the work here, and register for your ticket before joining others for the show at KW Atrium Studio, 6:30 pm.

Weave…part one & In Search of Holy Chop Suey, both by Tiger Princess Dance Projects, can also be seen at VIDF through Saturday, and a teaser can be seen here. Weave…part one “uses a contemporary dance framework to braid my mother’s life (second Sino-Japanese War); adopted into a Peranakan family as a baby, passed on to her Lau Ye at age 7 for convenience then discarded at age 19 on the death of the patriarch; with some of the situations I lived through and choices I made that crystalized who I became. Central to the solo is a questioning of the role/value of a woman in Asia – if all this has really changed with the passing of time.” Where or in what time-space does identity reside? Ng asks “How does someone else’s movement quality impact my own dancing self?” as she undertakes a pointed investigation for her solo, In Search of the Holy Chop Suey. In it, she ponders a life of creation and imitation in movement and mines influences from sources as varied as her mother, modern dance and kung fu legends, ordinary people, wild animals and more. Says Ng, “When I imitate, I also uncover something unique in myself. Each time I fail to become more like my mother (or my favourite kung fu hero Bruce Lee), I become more me. The sound score and the spoken text of this solo include Chinese dialect Hokkien and Singlish. At the KW Production Studio, 8 pm.

Presented with the Cultch, VIDF presents BOW’T TRAIL RETROSPEK , a conversation between the present and the past, voiced through the channelling body of Rhodnie Désir, where more than 130 testimonies collected on 7 lands of the Americas still reside. The choreographer, driven by a desire and a need to transcend her origins, has immersed herself in the African cultures and rhythms of peoples deported to the Americas. On stage and accompanied by two maestro musicians, Rhodnie Désir is supported by these majestic rhythms, while her body is mysteriously enveloped by video projections and memories connecting the audience to the universe of her travels. Check out the trailer, here. A talkback session with the artists moderated by VIDF Co-producer, Jay Hirabayashi will take place after the show. At the Cultch, 7:30 pm. Tix