If you are reading this before 8 pm on Friday, May 6, get yourself down to the Vancouver Playhouse to catch the DanceHouse presentation of BODYTRAFFIC in a Mixed Repertoire! This mixed program includes some of their most celebrated performances — from the rhythmic aggression of Baye & Asa’s The One to Stay With, to the whimsy and humour of Matthew Neenan’s A Million Voices, the dreamlike quality in Alejandro Cerrudo’s PACOPEPEPLUTO, and SNAP, Micaela Taylor’s layered take on social pressure and urban diversity. Check out this interview in the Georgia Straight with BODYTRAFFIC Artistic Director Tina Finkelman Berkett. At the Vancouver Playhouse, 8pm. Tix

Thursday May 12 – Saturday May 14, dumb instrument Dance presents Rebel Grace. The work explores gentle transgressions as acts of resistance, empowerment and gratitude. Expect scenes of rupture, repair and sweet subversion. Rebel Grace is conjured by Ziyian Kwan in collaboration with dance artists Lisa Mariko Gelley, Andrea Nann, Justin Calvadores, Juolin Lee and Rianne Svelnis. These inimitable performers traverse the rhythm and rhyme of imagery, text and movement – in conversation with live music from multi-instrumentalist Roxanne Nesbitt and Taiko artist E. Kage. Check out this great interview with Kwan where she talks about her inspirations for the work. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre, 8 pm. Tix

Also Thursday May 12 – Saturday May 14, Ballet BC closes the season with an evening of commissions from new voices to the company. Felix Landerer will explore the very human need for positivity and optimism in a world of chaos in his work titled Everything will be ok. Vancouver based Out Innerspace Dance Theatre will contemplate the ideas of creation and destruction, searching for connection between supposed opposites in Strange Attractor. And finally, RELIC is the world premiere from the first recipient of the Emily Molnar Emerging Choreographer Award, Dorotea Saykaly, examining image-making through a sci-fi lens. Check out teasers and more info about the choreographers here. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 8 pm. Tix

On Thursday and Friday, May 19 and 20, Co.ERASGA presents the return of Passages of Rhythms. In this remounted work, dancer and choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino takes centre stage; merging three duets created for three diverse artists and showcasing three different genres – Flamenco, Bharatanatyam, and voices for the body. A fusion of traditional and contemporary movements, Passages of Rhythms is hybrid- a cross-pollination of cultures enabling the body to move and transform through complex rhythms, sensation, shapes, and voices. Tolentino collaborates once again with Vancouver’s Chinese-Canadian Flamenco artist Kasandra “La China”, Indo-Canadian Bharatanatyam dancer Sujit Vaidya, and Montreal voice artist phenomena Gabriel Dharmoo in a work that awakens, provokes and celebrates the contemporary body and interconnections with cultural rhythms and sounds. At the PAL Studio Theatre, 8 pm. Tix

The Friday Round-Up, a place for the Vancouver community of dancers and dance lovers to come together and share what is going on in the local dance community. In this new world in which we find ourselves, it is now more important than ever to find ways to connect and share all the many new and innovative ways in which we create, communicate and relate in the world of dance. So if you have something you would like to share with the Friday Round-Up, please send it to debora@dancehouse.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!