Dancers Dancing

Friday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre
$5   ♥ Arts Lover Passholders Free

The Dancers Dancing Northern Lights Tour is a passionate contemporary dance experience featuring new works by Judith Garay, Santee Smith, and Wen Wei Wang.

Photo: Desirée Dunbar by Greg Ehlers

Nick and Juanita

Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre
Free

Nick and Juanita, a new dance work by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg Dance Theatre, recounts the effects of love, or lack of. Juanita is trying to reconcile her fugitive brain and her adorably naïve heart, while Nick is a smooth, slimy talk show host in love with his microphone.

“Unyielding, unearthly, audacious and intensely watchable.”

— Georgia Straight

Photo: Dancer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg by Christopher Morris

A Story Before Time

June 15 and 16, 7:30 p.m.
June 17, 2:00 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre
$15 · $12 · $8  ♥ Arts Lover Passholders Free

Acclaimed choreographer Santee Smith creates a visually stunning, musically rich, and theatrically compelling piece for young audiences based on the Iroquoian creation story.

Lost Action

Friday, July 6, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 8, 2:00 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre
$15 · $12 · $8   ♥ Arts Lover Passholders Free

Winner of the 2006 Alcan Performing Arts Award in Dance, Lost Action by Kidd Pivot artistic director Crystal Pite has dancers sculpt space in real time while working inside a form that is constantly in a state of vanishing.

“Pite works her ideas physically, exploring them in kinetic terms to make thrilling choreography.”

— The Dance Current

Lost Action is a co-production with L’Agora de la Danse, the Brian Webb Dance Company, the National Arts Centre, and Premiere Dance as part of the CanDance Creation Fund in association with the Canada Council for the Arts.

Photo: Malcolm Low and Victor Quijada by Chris Randle

Three Six Five

Saturday, July 14, 7:30 p.m. Eric Harvie Theatre
$10   ♥ Arts Lover Passholders Free

Touching on themes of death, birth, and new beginnings, Wen Wei Dance presents Three Six Five . Inspired by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Italian-Canadian composer Giorgio Magnanensi adapts Vivaldi’s well-loved music to create a modern musical landscape that bridges Wen Wei Wang’s cross-cultural choreography.

Celebrating 60 years of Dance
at The Banff Centre

Dance Gala: July 25 – 28

Since 1947, dance has been dreamed and devised, dancers’ careers have been shaped and launched, at The Banff Centre. Celebrate this legacy with us, through live performances, video exhibits, and encounters with those who made dance history here.

Young Dancers in Performance

August 3, 7:30 p.m.
August 4, 2:00 and 7:30 p.m.
August 5, 2:00 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre
$15 · $12 · $8   ♥ Arts Lover Passholders Free

An exhilarating display of youthful artistry — and one of the summer’s hottest tickets — as the stars of tomorrow present an enchanting collage of classical and contemporary dance.