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2026 PROGRAMME

MAR 4+6

Magnum Soares

Brazil, Portugal

Captivating solo where movement and handmade imagery trace the human cost of Brazil’s mining disasters and the fragile ground we all stand on.

MAR 4+6

Zab Maboungou / Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata

Tiohtià:ke [Montréal]

Dancers, musicians and spoken word artists navigate the chaos of moving through today’s world, carving breath and meaning out of turbulence.

MAR 4+6

Charles Koroneho

Aotearoa [New Zealand]

Intimate, shape-shifting solo that reveals an Indigenous experience of epilepsy and ancestral memory through image, text and digital installation.

MAR 5+7

George Stamos

Tiohtià:ke [Montréal]

Feral, witty solo where queer ritual, childhood awe and nocturnal imagination collide in a dance that glows at the edge of the surreal.

MAR 5+7

Nantea Dance Company: Tadhi Alawi + Samwel Japhet

Tanzania

Deeply human duet exploring how fleeting moments and shared experiences can alter the course of a life.

MAR 5+7

Jeanette Kotowich

MST Territories [Vancouver]

Indigenous-led ensemble charges through fractured landscapes with kinetic joy, weaving kinship, risk and ancestral intuition into a living archive.

MAR 7

Stage Crasher!

ft. Kathleen Nisbet's Dance Band

Free-spirited night where artists and audiences meet together onstage to dance to live Métis fiddle and old time social dance tunes.

MAR 8

The Xchange

produced by Kristen ‘KatchFlow'

High-energy, all-ages street dance battle that brings crews from across regions into a living conversation of movement, culture and community exchange.

MAR 11+12

Compagnie KHOR / Khoudia Touré

Sénégal, France

Street dancers from Dakar, Paris and Vancouver trace migrations of shadow and hope, transforming personal journeys into a collective story.

MAR 11+12

OURO Collective

MST Territories [Vancouver]

Vibrant group work that uncovers the memories held in shifting urban spaces, honouring the dancers and histories that shaped Vancouver’s street dance culture.

MAR 11+12

Caroline ‘Lady C' Fraser

Tkaronto [Toronto]

Virtuosic fusion of popping and live vocals where sound becomes visible and movement takes on the texture of music itself.

MAR 13+14

Aluma: Cie de Théâtre

Tiohtià:ke [Montréal], Tunisia

Immersive, sensory underwater adventure that invites neurodivergent audiences to react freely and co-create a luminous world of friendship and play.

MAR 13+14

Ame Henderson Projects + Provincija

Tkaronto [Toronto], Croatia

Sharp, intimate duet that flips the lights and the story, revealing the pleasure and impossibility of controlling a narrative in a world of constant refresh.

MAR 13–15

Chimerik 似不像

MST Territories [Vancouver]

Powerful dance-technology work where fire, sand and responsive projection open an intimate, multi-sensory encounter with the lived experience of psychosis.

The Living Room, a digital-physical space for artists and audiences to gather.

OFFSITES

MAR 9

Belinda He, Mohammadreza Akrami, Barbara Forbes + Wendy Perron

Singapore, France, Iran, Turtle Island

Interdisciplinary work that researches the notion of absence through movement, projection and sound. Curated by Mohammadreza Akrami.

MAR 10

Ane Iselin Brogeland

Norway

Performance lecture drawing from care-based encounters, collective rituals and solo practice. Curated by Mohammadreza Akrami.

MAR 10–14

Action at a Distance / Vanessa Goodman

MST Territories [Vancouver]

Embodied listening experience that blurs boundaries between sound, body and space. Presented as part of the Micro Performance Series on Granville Island.

MAR 15

Mohammadreza Akrami

Iran, Turtle Island

A work-in-progress shaped by Iran, where movement is policed and punished; the dancing body becomes a site of risk, refusal and longing.

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