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DanceHouse Announces Audaciously Adventurous 2026\/27 Season
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19th international season brings audiences on a journey from the depths of the universe to the heady rapture of the Kama Sutra and everywhere in between
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Vancouver, BC \u2014 <\/b>DanceHouse announces its <\/span>2026\/27 season<\/b> of five evocative contemporary performances from some of the world\u2019s leading dance companies, on stage at the <\/span>Vancouver Playhouse<\/b> from <\/span>October 2026 through April 2027<\/b>. An eclectic mix of dancemakers from Canada, the UK, Sweden, and India will explore the many pathways to liberation\u2013from breaking free of conformity and shame to uniting in our fight against an increasingly fractured world and embracing our intrinsic connection to the limitless expanse of the universe around us. <\/span>DanceHouse\u2019s 2026\/27 season includes two BC premieres, a Canadian premiere, a North American premiere, and the highly anticipated return of the Olivier Award-winning <\/b>Assembly Hall<\/i><\/b>, which had its world premiere as part of DanceHouse\u2019s 2023\/24 season.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to present our 19th season of boundary-pushing works to Vancouver audiences,\u201d says Jim Smith, Artistic and Executive Director of DanceHouse. \u201cOpening with Compagnie Catherine Gaudet\u2019s ODE, the season begins with a powerful exploration of collective energy and shared experience. Our winter productions mark two important firsts: the DanceHouse debut of Sweden\u2019s Cirkus Cirk\u00f6r, whose Knitting Peace uses contemporary circus to reflect on connection and cooperation, and our first presentation from India with Aditi Mangaldas\u2019s Forbidden, a work that bridges classical tradition and contemporary inquiry. The season culminates with Kidd Pivot\u2019s Assembly Hall and Wayne McGregor\u2019s Deepstaria, two internationally acclaimed works that examine how we organize, deliberate, and situate ourselves within larger social and ecological systems. Together, these performances offer audiences a dynamic season of virtuosity, imagination, and deeply contemporary perspective.\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The 2026\/27 DanceHouse Season includes:<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

ODE \u2013 <\/i><\/b>Compagnie Catherine Gaudet (Montr\u00e9al)
\n<\/b>October 23 & 24, 2026 at 8pm | Vancouver Playhouse
\n<\/b>BC Premiere
\n<\/b>Catherine Gaudet\u2019s astounding new work <\/span>ODE<\/span><\/i> channels the industrial happiness complex into a stripped-down exhortation\/exploration of group-think conformity and cultural collapse. Even as the brutalizing demand for orthodoxy crushes individual need underfoot, lingering at the edge of exhaustion is a slender blade of hope, like a secular prayer for a gentler world.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/b>Knitting Peace \u2013 <\/i><\/b>Cirkus <\/b>Cirk\u00f6r (Sweden)
\n<\/b>Co-presented with The Cultch
\n<\/b>January 27-30, 2027 at 8pm | Vancouver Playhouse
\n<\/b>Canadian Premiere
\n<\/b>The phrase \u201changing by a thread\u201d comes to life in Cirkus Cirk\u00f6r\u2019s colossal work <\/span>Knitting Peace<\/span><\/i>. More circus than dance, the world-renowned Swedish company uses the ancient language of spectacle to address contemporary issues. Out of the materiality of ropes, yarn and gossamer thread, emerges something radically transformative, binding us together in a new kind of liberation.\u00a0 <\/span>
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\n<\/span>Forbidden <\/i><\/b>\u2013 Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company (India)<\/b>
\n<\/b>Community Partner: Indian Summer Festival<\/b>
\n<\/b>February 26 & 27, 2027 at 8pm | Vancouver Playhouse
\n<\/b>North American Premiere<\/b>
\n<\/b>The wondrous depth of carnality lights the fire of <\/span>Forbidden<\/span><\/i>, Aditi Mangaldas\u2019s singular exploration of female sexuality. Couched in gestures both euphemistic and explicit, the language of pleasure is given its fullest flower. Combining traditional Kathak dance and the Kama Sutra, Mangaldas\u2019s solo performance throws off the mantle of shame to illuminate the body in all its incandescent beauty.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Assembly Hall<\/i><\/b> \u2013 Kidd Pivot (Vancouver)<\/b>
\n<\/b>March 17-20, 2027 at 8pm | Vancouver Playhouse
\n<\/b>Back by popular demand<\/b>, Kidd Pivot returns with its latest award-winning offering, <\/span>Assembly Hall<\/span><\/i>. From the team that brought you the ground-breaking productions of <\/span>Betroffenheit<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Revisor <\/span><\/i>comes a dance theatre hybrid that continues the company\u2019s signature wit, irreverence and wild invention. Eight magnificent performers assemble to explore the human need to congregate and belong. In a gathering place that doubles as community hall and mythic realm, we witness the joys and dangers of devoted like-mindedness and the pain of exile.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deepstaria<\/i><\/b> \u2013 Company Wayne McGregor (UK)<\/b>
\n<\/b>April 15-17, 2027 at 8pm | Vancouver Playhouse
\n<\/b>BC Premiere<\/b>
\n<\/b>Wayne McGregor\u2019s choreographic masterwork takes its title from rarely seen species of deep-sea jellyfish that live out their existence in the crushing darkness of the ocean. Through movement phrases that recall the peristaltic motion of undersea creatures, the performers give expression to the existential experience of the void. What emerges from the depths is nothing less than liberation in its most elemental form.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Subscriptions for past subscribers are on sale March 17 and for new subscribers on April 14. Single tickets are on sale May 19. For tickets and further information, visit: <\/b>dancehouse.ca<\/b><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

About DanceHouse (<\/b>dancehouse.ca<\/b><\/a>)
\n<\/b><\/span>DanceHouse connects Vancouver audiences and the local arts community to the international world of dance by presenting exceptional companies that are recognized for their excellence, innovation, and international reputation. Since 2008, DanceHouse has presented vibrant and inspiring companies from Canada and around the world. In addition to the performances on stage, DanceHouse offers a suite of engagement opportunities and a chance for the general public and local artistic community to engage with the presented artists and their work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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