Feel Vancouver come to life on stage with 20.20.20, a collaboration between Dancers Dancing and SFU Woodwards that captures the living atmosphere of urban Vancouver.
Running Sept. 24-27 at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings), choreographer Judith Garay celebrates 20 years of work in Vancouver by examining 20 intersections in the city using 20 dancers, whose motions are inspired by the dialogue between architecture, pigeons, overpasses, green spaces, mountain views, skateboards, and people.
Tickets are $25/$20.
Double dose of dance
And if that's not enough, sandwiched between those dates is opening show of The Dance Centre’s 2014-2015 Global Dance Connections contemporary dance series, starring the world-renowned Ballet Preljocaj.
Created by the company’s celebrated French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, Empty moves (parts I, II & III) is set to the infamous 1977 recording of John Cage’s Empty words, where the minimalist composer calmly recited radically abstracted text at an uncomprehending and increasingly irate audience.
This soundtrack is integral to Preljocaj’s choreographic response, which creates a sophisticated and meditative ode to the abstract as a quartet of dancers executes a flow of inexhaustible movement with absolute precision and technical skill. Spare, contemplative and sensual, this absorbing work unfolds as an elegant counterpoint to the turbulent score.
Ballet Preljocaj will be at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie) on Sept. 25-26. Tickets are$32/$24. Call 604-684-2787 or go to TicketsTonight.ca.
