Aeriosa venue change
Aeriosa will now be performing at the BC Hydro Building on the scheduled dates July 11, 5:30pm & 8pm, and July 12, 6:30pm & 8pm.

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FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER: 4 THE EDGE
Please join us for a fun and fabulous fundraising brunch for Dancing on the Edge. You will have the opportunity to meet three of Canada’s preeminent choreographer’s  Serge Bennathan, Peter Bingham & Alvin Tolentino plus Festival Producer, Donna Spencer and enjoy good people and a light brunch -- in the process, you'll be supporting Vancouver's most exciting contemporary dance festival.

ENTRY BY DONATION ($50 to $250 suggested)
Sunday, July 6th, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Casual dress
Please RSVP directly to dotefestival@gmail.com

Held at the home of Terence Little and Ben Clermont
156 East 35th Ave (a favourite on the 2008 Ballet BC Home and Garden Tour)

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Ghosts
Thursday, July 3, 7pm
Friday, July 4, 7pm
Saturday, July 5, 7pm
Sunrise Market

Kokoro Dance has presented over 1,000 performances over the past twenty-two years and is perennially named by the Georgia Straight in its annual Best of Vancouver readers' poll as one of the best dance companies in Vancouver. Distinctively different from any other dance company in Canada, Kokoro Dance creates highly physical and emotional dance bearing the strong imprint of Japanese butoh. Kokoro Dance also produces the annual Vancouver International Dance Festival. Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi have created over one hundred and fifty dances including over forty full evening works.

Ghosts: Performed on top of the Sunrise Market on the corner of Powell and Gore streets and adjacent to Kokoro Dance's former office at 314 Powell Street that was once the location used for registering Japanese Canadians for transfer to concentration camps during World War II, 12 dancers, 3 bagpipers, and a drummer summon the memories of the people who once lived and worked in the Powell Street neighbourhood. Life has never been easy for the many different cultural communities that lived on Powell Street. Ghosts is the dance of these different peoples returning once again to inhabit their former haunts and to celebrate their lives one more time.

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12 MINUTES MAX SAMPLER
July 7, 7pm
July 8, 9pm
Firehall Arts Centre

Hanson is Back - CarliAnn Forthun, Ashley Chow, Natalie Gan
Hanson is Back evolved through experimentation of the relationship between sound and movement, inspired by the personal idiosyncracies and chemistry between the three performers. It seeks to utilize the power of voice within dance and is a response to the portable music phenomenon on public transit. Thank you to Claire French for her invaluable input and support.

Tiny Bubbles - Amanda Sheather
Tiny Bubbles is a movement investigation into the writings of Bret Easton Ellis. Its quirky and rhythmic movement vocabulary brings to life Ellis' use of sexual ambiguity and violence. Set to the late Don Ho's "Tiny Bubbles," the two dancers swap genders by exchanging a Velcro skirt and tie.

Etiquette for the Maladroit - Mary Anne Wong
Mary Anne Wong is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University dance program and has shown dance, film, music, and mixed genre work in Vancouver, Montreal, and Seattle. Her main focus revolves around choreography, to which end she is amassing an ever-growing body of short and medium length works. Mary Anne has shown her work most recently at 12 Minutes Max, the memelab, Centennial Theatre, and the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver. A formidable dancer and innovative creator, she has looked forward to working with Laura's loose limbs and goofy attitude after witnessing her knock herself out with her own knee in 2001.

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Edge Two
July 6, 7pm
July 7, 9pm
Firehall Arts Centre

X+Y+Z: I've been here before - Sara Coffin
Through a series of imposed physical limitations and the exploration of connection points in the body the choreographer creates a kinetic solo movement journey.

The (Remembrance) Trilogy - Karen Rose
Three solo works creating a testament to women in times of war, past and present, victim and survivor, offering us another way to remember, to honor and to strive for peace.

Excerpt from What.? - Mascall Dance
Created from a fascination with letters written between Mascall's parents during World War II and stories from Stewart's father, What.? is a wild excursion as various personas spring to life to traverse a kinetic landscape.

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