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Vancouver International Dance Festival #VIDF2024 Kinetically Exciting Contemporary Dance

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Jumping into September like 💃🌠

@GohBallet celebrated their 40th Anniversary Season at the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall in the 2018 VIDF.

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In 2022, the VIDF returned to in-person performances for the first time since March 2020. The 2022 VIDF season offered 31 in-person performances, 10 live-streamed, and 1 hybrid in-person/live-streamed performance.

Who did you see at the 2022 VIDF?

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In our 2021-2022 fiscal year, the VIDF celebrated our return to in-person performances by presenting one of our favorite ballet companies, Alonzo King LINES Ballet.

Pictured is Maddie DeVries performing in "The Personal Element."

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The 2018 VIDF took place March 2 – 24, 2018 and featured 36 performances, including 21 by BC artists and 17 performances free of charge.

Who did you see at the 2018 VIDF? 🤩

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Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, Kokoro Dance presented "Reading the Bones" via live stream from @kwstudiosvan as part of the 2021 VIDF.

Reading the Bones was five 64-minute solos performed as an ensemble, each dancer in her unique journey
and a shared group journey.

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We only presented 8 of our 31 programmed VIDF performances before performance venues were shut down as a COVID-19 precaution. Kokoro Dance, FakeKnot, and Farouche live-streamed their performances in the fall of 2020 with state-of-the-art equipment from @kwstudiosvan.

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The VIDF presented Company 605's "Brimming" as part of its 2021 program. Created and performed by Company 605 Artistic Co-Director Josh Martin.

Photo by David Cooper

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the VIDF programmed its 2021 season to be live-streamed from @kwstudiosvan to ensure the safest conditions for our artists and audience members.

Which VIDF live stream did you see?!

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Aakash Odedra and Hu Shenyuan were mesmerizing as they danced under neverending falling sand.

#FunFact Did you know that the production of Samsara at the 2023 VIDF used over 200 kilos of sand? 🤯

#VIDF2023 #aakashodedracompany #yvrarts #dance #Vidf #HuShenyuan

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Every dollar donated this month gives us a chance to win $20,000!

Donate here to support the festival's programming and continued growth of contemporary dance.

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#GreatCanadianGivingChallenge

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2024 Festival planning has us reminiscing about our 2023 performances 😍

What was your favorite VIDF 2023 show?

#yvrarts #dance #vancouverdance #aakashodedra #kokorodance #christopherhouse #visionimpure #noamgagnon #alessandrosciarroni #dainaashbee #laotraorilla

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Shay Kuebler's Radical System Art performed "Epilogos" at the 2020 VIDF before the City of Vancouver shut down all performance venues as a necessary COVID-19 precaution.

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Pseudo human/Super human by #Dairakudakan at VIDF 2019.

Photo by Chris Randle.

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VIDF Co-Producers Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi performing Wabi Sabi at VIDF 2022.

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Looking back to this beautiful performance of The Sun and The Moon by Holly Bright and Celestine Aleck at VIDF 2022 😍

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#HappyInternationalDance Day! 🕺💃

Looking back to past performances at our festival has us feeling excited for 2024! 🤩

Which is your favorite VIDF performance?

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Happy #InternationalDance Day! 🕺💃

Looking back to past performances at our festival has us feeling excited for #VIDF 2024! 🤩

Which is your favorite VIDF performance? Please share with us in the comments below!

#VancouverDance #VIDF #YVRArts

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#TONIGHT the premiere of Noam Gagnon's "being" goes live at 7 PM PDT. 🤩

All performances of being will be livestreamed exclusively from @kwstudiosvan

Get your tickets here: https://t.co/jTzGCB1vC3

Photos by Erikzenn Strom

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VIDF Livestreams are back this week!

Watch being by Vancouver's Vision Impure from April 20-21 @ 7 pm PDT and April 22 @ 4 pm PDT.

Tickets: By donation
Register now to receive Youtube link: https://t.co/LN1ECFrtrk

Rehearsal photos of being by Erik Zennström

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Due to the pandemic, we opted to program live streams during our past 3 seasons. We discovered that this new way of seeing dance had much to offer to audiences in Vancouver and worldwide. To watch our latest livestream being by Noam Gagnon, click the link in our bio.