As we close our 32nd annual Dancing on the Edge Festival (and our first to digitally stream our programs!) we would like to extend our thanks to all of our talented choreographers, dancers, creatives, and crew. We also show our gratitude for our festival staff, Firehall Arts Centre staff, our funding bodies and donors. In...
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg chats with Vancouver Presents about creating work during a pandemic. “Being crazy busy and “productive” doesn’t equal being useful and alive. I think we’ve all been running as fast as we can to get by, be relevant/important/worthy. We’ve (I’m talking about the other artist-parents I know but it goes further than that-its...
Check out our #DOTE2020 trailer on Youtube! Our Dancing on the Edge Festival runs from 2-11 July, 2020. LIVE WORKS at the Firehall Arts Centre – Theatre and Courtyard plus ONLINE WORKS (EDGEs) and Dance Cafe! Book tickets to our LIVE WORKS and register for our ONLINE works now: dancingontheedge.org. Feat. works from: Shay...
Check out 20 Questions with Ziyian Kwan for Vancouver Presents: 20 questions (pandemic edition) with Ziyian Kwan Ziyian Kwan’s work Kwan Yin is part of EDGE TWO for Dancing on the Edge 2020. Register here.
“One could be forgiven for thinking there was a Jewish dance festival coming up, as there are so many community members participating in this year’s Dancing on the Edge, which takes place July 2-11.” – Jewish Independent Jewish Dance Artists Participating in Dancing on the Edge 2020: LIVE WORKS: Shay Kuebler | Radical System Art...
The 32nd Annual Dancing on the Edge Festival Moves Forward in a Different Form! July 2 – 11, 2020 Schedule announcement on June 25! An eagerly anticipated highlight of the Lower Mainland’s dance season each July is Canada’s longest-running contemporary dance festival, Dancing on the Edge. For the 2020 festival, we are happy to announce...
The Dancing on the Edge Board of Directors are organizing a silent auction in support of the festival to help with it’s production, growth and future. Items on offer include: Cook Culture Cooking Classes + DanceHouse Tickets valued at $350 Dinner for two at Hawksworth Restaurant + see a show at Ballet BC valued...
“The Odd Volume is part of Edge Six, a shared program at Dancing On The Edge that also features work by Kirsten Wicklund. We are womxn artists from across generations and our work has very different sensibilities. It’s a dynamic pairing and I’m curious about how our two solos will compliment and juxtapose.” – Ziyian...
“In the studio, I have been mining my own complicated and unhealthy relationship with my body as a #dancer in a #female body with the help of my amazing collaborators/performers. The process so far has involved exploring how the forms of stand-up #comedy and #dance can express this difficult, and often absurd, story of struggling with body image that many of us...
Rachel Meyer’s production Transverse Orientation is part of Dancing on the Edge 2019! Tickets on Sale Now! https://creatorsvancouver.com/rachel-meyer/