2023 VIDF Program

Aakash Odedra Company photo by Nirvair Singh Rai

February 27– March 25, 2023

Dear Friends:

I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone taking part in the 2023 Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF).

Since 2000, the VIDF has celebrated the diversity of contemporary dance expression, offering dancers from across Canada and around the world a wonderful opportunity to showcase their talent. I am certain tha t everyone in attendance will be inspired by the creativity and artistry on display.

I would like to commend all those associated with the VIDF for their hard work and dedication in mounting this year’s festival. You can be proud of your commitment to sup porting the art of culturally diverse contemporary dance in Canada.

Please accept my best wishes for a most enjoyable experience

Sincerely,

A MESSAGE FROM PREMIER DAVID EBY

As Premier of British Columbia, it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to the 2023 Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF)

For over two decades, this festival has served as a vital link between Vancouver and the international community of artists, showcasing evocative and thought-provoking dance expressions from around the world and our own backyard. It is wonderful to see the VIDF continue to thrive and support a wide range of contemporary dance. This year's impressive lineup, featuring local performers alongside dancers from Montreal, Toronto, Europe and Asia, is a testament to the VIDF's dedication to highlighting diverse voices and styles

I want to express my gratitude to everyone at the VIDF Society for their unwavering commitment to supporting contemporary dance and for their hard work in bringing this festival to life. I also want to extend my deepest appreciation to the dancers, directors and choreographers for sharing their invaluable artistic expression and talent. As you gather to experience the power and beauty of contemporary dance, let us also celebrate the diversity and richness of our vibrant multicultural province.

Please accept my best wishes for a memorable and enjoyable experience at the 2023 Vancouver International Dance Festival.

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HONOURABLE DAVID EBY, K.C. PREMIER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

The Rt. Hon. Justin P. J. Trudeau, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada

Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

We begin by acknowledging that the 2023 VIDF takes place on the unceded ancestral territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including theterritories of the x ʷməθkwəy əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl ílwətaʔ/ Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and we thank them for sharing their land, with us.

Producing an international dance festival is a challenge at the best of times. In 2020, we managed to present only 8 of 31 shows before the COVID-19 pandemic shut us down. In the 2020-21 fiscal year we were unable to present any in-person shows, but did present 8 livestreamed shows by Kokoro Dance, FakeKnot, Farouche, Ne. Sans Opera &

Dance, Company 605, and Vidya Kotamraju. In 2021-22, we presented livestreamed shows by LamonDance, Josh Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, Marion Landers, Dance//Novella, and Company 605, as well as in-person shows by Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Holly Bright & Celestine Aleck, Company 605/German Jauregui, Manuel Roque, Daina Ashbee, Benoît Lachambre/Montreal Danse, Company 605, Rhodnie Désir, Olivia Shaffer, and tiger princess dance projects. Daina Ashbee’s performances had to be cancelled after her opening night when members of her company tested positive for the Corona virus. Attendance overall was poor compared to the pre-COVID years. Apparently, audiences still had lingering fear of Corona virus exposure despite Provincial Health Office’s lifting of social spacing and masking restrictions.

Is it safe now to attend our dance performances? We think so. We have travelled in the past year to Montreal, London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, Victoria, Toronto, Winnipeg, and again to Montreal to see dance performances and have remained healthy in each of those cities while seeing performances with capacity audiences.

Please join us at the 2023 VIDF. In the following pages, you can read about the provocative and evocative artists that we have invited to this year’s festival.

Yours in dance, Barbara

Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi

2022 Dance Collection Danse Hall of Fame photo of Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi by Liliana Reyes

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TICKET & VENUE INFO

BOX OFFICE

To reserve your ticket, go to vidf.ca. If you need assistance call our box office at 604-662-4966 or email boxoffice@vidf.ca.

The box office is available online 24/7: online ticket sales are available until 4PM on the day of the show. Administrative staff are available to take your calls during office hours 12PM – 4PM, Monday to Saturday.

Door Sales start at 7PM at the Vancouver Playhouse, Annex and Scotiabank Dance Centre. 6:30PM at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Box Office opens 1 hour prior to all performances at KW Production Studio and performances by Alessandro Sciarroni at the Italian Cultural Centre and Scotiabank Dance Centre.

Refunds Policy: Refunds will be made in full in case of a cancelled performance. No other refunds will be made. Missed performances will not be refunded.

TICKET PRICES

Vancouver Playhouse: Reserved seating ticket prices are $50 for Adults and $40 for Students/ Seniors/Arts Workers on Wednesday and Thursday. $70 for Adults and $60 for Students/Seniors/Arts Workers on Friday and Saturday.

Annex Theatre: $25 for Adults and $20 for Students/Seniors/Arts Workers on Wednesday and Thursday. $35 for Adults and $30 for Students/Seniors/Arts Workers on Friday and Saturday.

Annex Package: Watch one show by Taketeru Kudo and one show by Christopher House on a Friday or Saturday night for $50.

LOCATIONS

Vancouver Playhouse: 600 Hamilton St @ Dunsmuir St, Vancouver

Annex Theatre: 823 Seymour St @ Robson St, Vancouver

Scotiabank Dance Centre: 677 Davie St @ Granville St, Vancouver

Scotiabank Dance Centre: $25 for Adults and $20 for Students/ Seniors/Arts Workers on Wednesday and Thursday. $35 for Adults and $30 for Students/Seniors/Arts Workers on Friday and Saturday.

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts: $35 for Adults and $30 for Students/Seniors

KW Production Studio: $20 for Adults and $15 for Students/Seniors/ Arts Workers or pay what you can at the door for standby tickets.

Woodward’s Atrium and Vancouver Playhouse performances by Kokoro Dance are free/by donation.

KW Studios/Woodward’s Atrium: 111 West Hastings St @ Abbott St, Vancouver

Italian Cultural Centre: 3075 Slocan St, Vancouver

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts: 6450 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby

Wabi-Sabi by Kokoro

Dance photos by Chris Randle

Vancouver’s

KOKORO DANCE

Kokoro Dance contemplates transience and imperfection in Wabi-Sabi, a duet choreographed and performed by Kokoro Dance directors, Barbara Bourget, and Jay Hirabayashi. Kokoro Dance’s butoh expression gives recurring attention to the seven

aesthetic principles of Zen philosophy: kanso — simplicity; fukinsei — asymmetry or irregularity; shibumi — beauty in the understated; shizen — naturalness without pretense; yugen — subtle grace; datsuzoku — freeness; and seijaku

— tranquility. These terms are encompassed in a world view contained in the words wabi and sabi — the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

Duration: 53 minutes

Wabi-Sabi

March 2-4 @ 8pm

Free/By donation

Vancouver Playhouse

Credits:

Performed and choreographed by Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi

Lighting: Hina Nishioka and Gerald King

Costumes: Tsuneko Kokubo

Projected photography: Jay Hirabayashi

Composer: Joseph Hirabayashi

Musicians: Joseph Hirabayashi, Peggy Lee (cello), Meredith Bates (violin), and James Meger (upright bass)

CHRISTOPHER HOUSE

New Tricks is an intimate solo work created and performed by Christopher House. It uses costume, disguise, ritual, and 44 years of choreographic research to explore new ways of being in the world in a veteran body. The work is personal and playful

and is inspired by a desire to embody liveness, the ambiguity of gesture, the poetry of failure and inefficiency, the beauty of the ordinary, and a queering of both the body and the imagination. The work exists in relation to the space in which it is performed,

Toronto’s

unfolding through a series of episodes that invite the viewer to consider the specificity of each passing moment.

Duration: 55 minutes

Advisories: Nudity

New Tricks (West Coast Premiere) March 2-4 @ 8pm

$20-35 Annex Theatre

Advisories: Nudity

Duration: ~75 Minutes

Credits:

Choreography and performance: Christopher House

Soundtrack: Thom Gill

Lighting: Simon Rossiter

Costumes: Sarah Doucet

Outside Eyes: Tedd Robinson and Rosemary James

Christopher House photos by Omer

K. Yukseker

La Otra Orilla

photos by Vanessa Fortin

Montréal’s

LA OTRA ORILLA

DEBORDEMENTS is a choreographic and soundbased work at the crossroads of flamenco language and punk philosophy. Created by Myriam Allard and Hedi Graja in collaboration with the composer and performer Jonathan Parant on electric guitar and on stage, this new work sees the trio deliver a striking

performance in which dance, music, space, light and actions are revisited by multiples derivatives. An urban production, it’s rooted in a cry, a common desire to express a never-say-die vision of life.

Duration: 55 minutes

DEBORDEMENTS

(World Premiere)

March 8-11@ 8pm

$15-20

KW Production Studio

Credits:

On stage: Myriam Allard, Hedi Graja, Jonathan Parant

Choreography: Myriam Allard

Stage direction: Hedi Graja

Music: Jonathan Parant

Lighting: Etienne Boucher

Costumes: Elen Ewing

Rehearsal director: Hélène Messier

Artistic collaborator: Juan Carlos Lerida

Production director: Jacinthe Nepveu

Italy’s

ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI

In Save the last dance for me

Alessandro Sciarroni works together with the dancers

Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini on the steps of a Bolognese dance called Polka Chinata. It is a courtship dance originally performed by men only and dating back to the early 1900s: physically demanding, almost acrobatic, it requires that the dancers

embrace each other, whirl as they bend to their knees almost to the ground.

The work was created in collaboration with Giancarlo Stagni, a Filuzziani dance master who revived this ancient tradition thanks to the rediscovery and study of some documentation videos dating back to the 1960s. Sciarroni discovered this dance in

December 2018 when the dance was practiced in Italy only by 5 people in total. For this reason, the project consists of a performance performed by the two dancers and a series of workshops aimed at spreading and reviving this popular tradition in danger of extinction.

Duration: 20 minutes

Save the last dance for me (West Coast Premiere)

March 10-11 @ 5pm: Scotiabank Dance Centre

March 12 @ 1pm & 3pm: Woodwards Atrium (Free)

March 13-14 @ 4:30pm: Italian Cultural Centre

March 15 @ 5pm: Woodwards Atrium (Free)

$15-20/Free

Co-presented with The Dance Centre and Italian Cultural Centre

Credits:

Invention: Alessandro Sciarroni with Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini

Artistic Collaboration: Giancarlo Stagni

Performers: Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini

Music: Aurora Bauzà e Pere Jou (Telemann Rec.)

Styling: Ettore Lombardi

Technical Direction: Valeria Foti

Curator, Promotion, Consulting: Lisa Gilardino

Administration, Executive Production: Chiara Fava

Communication: Damien Modolo

Alessandro Sciarroni photos by Claudia Borgia/Chiara Bruschini

Taketeru Kudo

photos by Funna Kang

Japan’s

TAKETERU KUDO

The Foot on the Edge of Knife began its development in 2021 in Tokyo when COVID-19 was spreading all around the world. Composer Masaru Soga sent some 100 pieces of music to Taketeru Kudo who, at the time, was caught in Tokyo’s long-term lockdown and was anxious and

irritated by it. He brought the music to his studio where, night by night, he tried to make a piece while still in the middle of confinement. It finally began to take shape after 3 months. It is a butoh piece, but people will see how Kudo worked to bring butoh to a different stage that no one

has ever stepped on. The Foot on the Edge of Knife reflects the reality of the current world as he dances his embodied reflection of our human situation. This work premiered at Za-Koenji Public Theater in January 2022.

Duration: 75 minutes

The Foot on the Edge of Knife

(North American Premiere)

March 15-18 @ 8pm

$20-35

Annex

Credits:

Direction & Dancer: Taketeru Kudo

Music: Masaru Soga

Stage Set: Michitoshi Kurokawa

Costume: Konomi Shibata

Light Design: Seiji Hayakawa

Production Manager: Yeoreum Hang

Japan/Nelson’s

ICHIGO-ICHIEH

Accomplished dancerchoreographer-actor Hiromoto Ida skillfully merges dance, theatre, classical music, and voice to tell the story of an old man (Hiromoto Ida), raising a glass of sake to himself in celebration on what will be his last birthday. Reminiscing about the richness of his life experience, he is visited by the spirit of his wife (Lindsay Clague). Birthday Present for Myself features musicians Nicola

Everton (clarinet), Sue Gould (piano), Jeff Faragher (cello), and Martine denBok (violin & viola), performing an evocative original score by Russian composer Pavel Karmanov. Simple but rich text from pioneer Japanese contemporary theatre playwright, Shogo Ota, and a Kagekiyo Noh theatre mask created by Japanese Noh mask artist Mitsue Nakamura adds to the poignant beauty of the work.

Inspired by the subtlety and simplicity of Japanese Noh theatre expressed through western contemporary dance and music, Ida touches our hearts. Through themes of love, transformation and regeneration, the inner world and emotions of this old man inspires us to find unexpected beauty in our own lives.

Duration: 90 minutes

Birthday Present for Myself

March 17-18 @ 8pm

$30-35

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Presented with:

Credits:

Creation/Direction/ Choreographer: Hiromoto Ida

Performers: Hiromoto Ida (Old Man), Lindsay Clague (Wife), Nicola Everton (Clarinet), Sue Gould (Piano), Jeff Faragher (Cello) and Martine Den Bok (Violin/Viola)

Music Score: Pavel Karmanov

Text: Shogo Ota (Excerpt from Play “Sumika”)

Assistant Director: Lindsay Clague

Noh Mask: Mitsue Nakamura

Sound Design: John Tucker

Sound Assistant: Lachlan Tocher

Set & Poster Design: Thomas Loh

Lighting Design: Sharon Huizinga

Stage Manager: Olivia Bogaard

Assistant Stage Manager: Hannah Stevens

Hiromoto Ida photos by Masayosi Suzuki

Aakash Odedra Company photos by Nirvair Singh Rai

UK/India’s

AAKASH ODEDRA COMPANY

Aakash Odedra Company and Bagri Foundation invite you to enter the world of Samsara. Inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, Samsara is a spellbinding piece that traces the steps we take, both forward and backward, in search of our higher selves.

UK/Indian dancer Aakash Odedra and Chinese dancer Hu Shenyuan

draw on their diverse disciplines of ballet, Chinese folk, kathak and contemporary dance to explore the notion of samsara: the wheel of life, birth, existence and re-birth. This compelling journey of self-development, fear and love traces a path across lands and through time, exploring the idea that if we let attachments go and allow light in, we might find a

place of truth and peace. Drawing on thinking and imagery at the heart of Buddhist philosophy, Samsara’s mythological storytelling merges with personal experience from two globally opposite perspectives in a seductive, astonishing journey of twin movement.

Duration: 60 minutes

Samsara

(North American Premiere)

March 22-25 @ 8pm

$40-70

Vancouver Playhouse

Credits:

Performers/Crew Names & Positions:

Dancers: Aakash Odedra, Hu Shenyuan

Musicians: Nicki Wells, Beibei Wang, Michael Ormiston

Tech: Salvatore Scollo, Michael Morgan, Emanuele Salamanca, and Simon Ryder

Company Manager: Ali Robertson and Megan Maw

DAINA ASHBEE

The first group piece by the prolific Daina Ashbee, J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION 2021) plunges into states of being with both sober and incisive precision. Far from any possible attempts at categorization or binary representation, the naked and gaping bodies pierced by chants attempt to come closer together, pile up in vanishing lines – before

breaking apart. Connection then emerges, in poetics of deflagration and trance, while the sounds produced by the bodies generate movements, growls, yelps, cries and calls. True flesh channels, the performers transmit myriads of stories, embodying a web of possibilities where everything can coexist. Because everything is transitory, fleeting, and forges a sensory experience

where the sensitive configuration shapes a ritual of cohabitation and decompartmentalization. This work inspired by the density and complexity of human structure, explores its entrails, its thought processes, its energy, and its life force.

Duration: 80 minutes

Advisories: Nudity

J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction)

March 22-25 @ 8pm

$20-35

Scotiabank Dance Centre

Co-presented with:

Advisories: Nudity

Duration: ~75 Minutes

Credits:

Artistic Director and Choreographer: Daina Ashbee

Rehearsal Director: Gabriel Nieto

Performers: Audrey Sides, Celia Green, Elise Vanderborght, Imara Bosco, and Sh’vii Rosen

Mentor: Benoît LaChambre

Lighting Designer: Stephanie Van Sandt

Musical compilation: Sean MacPherson, Daina Ashbee, Gabriel Nieto

Gabriola Island’s

Daina Ashbee photos by Johan Pijpops

Noam Gagnon

photos by Erik Zennström

Vancouver’s

VISION IMPURE

being is about accepting a certain lack of ultimate meaning in life and living for momentary beauty.

being (World Premiere)

April 20-21 @ 7pm & April 22 @ 4pm

$15-20

Livestream from KW Production Studio

Credits:

Choreography: Noam Gagnon

Performer: Noam Gagnon

Lighting Designer: James Proudfoot

Rehearsal Director: Jennifer McLeish-Lewis

Music for Paint the Land: Ground truthing: Faye Mallett – vibraphone, drums, keyboards, vocals, Lindsay Cuff – trumpet, violin, guitar, harmony vocals, Braden Jones – bass, drums, harmony vocals, Jesse Griffith – guitar, pedal steel, dobro

Music for Fighting Chance: MJ Coomber Composer

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SPRING HIGHLIGHTS

March 10-15 Alessandro Sciarroni

March 22-25 Daina Ashbee

March 30 Dancers of Damelahamid

April 13-15 Hillel Kogan

April 20

May 4-6

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29th Annual Wreck Beach Butoh Performance Worshop

July 3 - 16, 2023

Rehearsals at KW Studios

Performances July 15 & 16 at

Wreck Beach (foot of #4 Trail below UBC Museum of Anthropology on Vancouver’s largest stage with costumes, set, lighting, and sound by Mother Nature info: kokoro.ca/workshops

2006 Wreck Beach Butoh photo by Yuri Kikuchi

FREE WORKSHOPS

Immerse yourself in the artistic practices of local and international dance artists performing at the 2023 Vancouver International Dance Festival.

If you want direct insight into the art of our visiting guest artists, there is no better way than by taking a free workshop. Class size is limited, so we strongly recommend registering in advance online at vidf.ca/workshops or phone 604.662.4966

Barbara Bourget photo by Chris Randle

KOKORO DANCE CLASSES

Kokoro Dance’s modern and butoh dance classes build strength, flexibility, and stamina, as well as develop technical and performance skills. The difference between the two types of classes reflects the different approaches to the same end taken by Barbara and Jay. Barbara’s classes focus on technical training and have a consistent structure from warm-up to movement in space. Jay’s classes are more eclectically varied and include more time for improvisational exploration. The two approaches complement each other and dancers are recommended to take both.

Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi are the Co-producers of the VIDF and the Co-directors of Kokoro Dance. Their teaching is strongly influenced by butoh studies over the last 35 years. These classes are open to all levels of experience.

February 27 – March 24, 2023

Barbara: Mon, Wed, Fri: 9:30-11:00am

Jay: Tue, Thur: 9:30-11:00 am

Location: KW Studios

ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI WORKSHOPS

Learn the steps of a Bolognese dance called Polka Chinata, a courtship dance originally performed by men only and dating back to the early 1900s: physically demanding, almost acrobatic, it requires that the dancers embrace each other, whirl as they bend to their knees almost to the ground.

Workshop with dancers Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini from Alessandro Sciarroni

March 10-11 @ 12-2pm: Scotiabank Dance Centre

March 13-14 @ 12-2pm: Italian Cultural Centre

HOW TO HELP

You can support the festival’s programming and the continued growth of contemporary dance through donations to the Vancouver International Dance Festival. The VIDF is a non-profit, artistrun, registered charitable society (CRA# 892858614RR0001) that needs your support. Your donation will help to ensure ongoing opportunities for local dancers, and touring opportunities for international artists to bring their works to the stage in Vancouver.

Learn more about different ways to support the VIDF at vidf.ca/donate Unrestricted donations to the society can be made directly through this link, over

the phone or by mail to the VIDF office. Charitable tax receipts will be issued for contributions over $3.

You can also support the VIDF by “liking” our videos on YouTube, subscribing to our YouTube channel and following us on Facebook, Instagram and/or Twitter. “Checking in” to the VIDF on Facebook and rating you experience also supports our visibility and promote our activities.

VIDF ENDOWMENT FUND

Supervised by the Vancouver Foundation, the VIDF Endowment Fund is building a long-term legacy for the festival. The VIDF is in its 23rd year; if you would like to see the festival continue advancing the art of contemporary dance for years to come, please donate at vidf.ca/endowmentfund. Charitable tax receipts will be issued for contributions over $3 made online.

You can also donate to this fund by writing a cheque payable to the Vancouver Foundation, indicating VIDF in the memo line, and mailing to:

Vancouver Foundation

RE: Vancouver International Dance Festival

Suite 200, 475 West Georgia St. Vancouver, BC V6B 4M9

LARISA FAYAD MEMORIAL FUND

In loving memory of Larisa Fayad (1976-2007), her friends and family have established the Larisa Fayad Memorial Fund to carry on Larisa’s work and aspirations in the field of lighting design. From this fund, biennial bursaries of $5,000 are alternately awarded to enable the careers of emerging lighting designers and choreographers. Please help keep Larisa’s memory alive by donating to this fund at vidf.ca/donate. The $5,000, 2023 VIDF Choreographers Award, has been awarded to Dance// Novella choreographers Brandon Lee Alley and Racheal Prince for their stellar work in creating When The Walls Come Down - inspired by and collaboratively created with Deaf artist Caroline Hébert.

VIDF 2023 Festival Program

Brandon Lee Alley & Racheal Prince photo by Philip Jarmain

WE’RE GRATEFUL FOR ALL OUR SUPPORTERS, WHO TOGETHER, MAKE THE VIDF POSSIBLE

VIDF SUSTAINING BENEFACTORS

Linda Farris

Barbara Bourget

Jay Hirabayashi

Judith Garay

Gary Maier and Leslie Poole

Peter Dickenson and Richard

Cavell

Aaron Smith

Leslie Stark

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Rosedale on Robson

Kokoro Dance Theatre Society

KW Studios

East Van Graphics

The Dance Centre

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Italian Cultural Centre

Vancouver Civic Theatres

MEDIA PARTNER

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FOUNDATIONS & FUNDING AGENCIES

British Columbia Arts Council Canada Council for the Arts

City of Vancouver – Cultural Services

Government of CanadaDepartment of Canadian Heritage Province of British Columbia

VIDF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President: Leslie Stark

Vice President: Henry Wong

Secretary/Treasurer: Tuan Luu

Member at Large: Judith Garay, and Tessa Perkins Deneault

STAFF

Co-producers: Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget

Director of Operations: Joseph Hirabayashi

Festival/Marketing Manager: Khaliun Altanbadralt

Box Office Manager/Volunteer

Coordinator: Caterina Capizzano

Production Managers: Terry

Podealuk and Gabriel Raminhos

KW Studios Co-Technical

Directors: Gabriel Raminhos and Nick Short

Graphic Designer: Aaron Smith

Photographer/Videographer: Chris Randle

Social Media Coordinator: Misheel Altanbadralt

FRIENDS OF THE VIDF

Mary Louise Albert

Tim Agg and Stuart

Alcock

Wesley Arnold

Emily Bausback

Jean-Christophe

Bélisle-Pipon

Dave Carloni

Katie Cassidy

Marilyn Chapman

Luce Couture

Elizabeth Devereaux

Alex Espinosa

Kevin Ettinger

Noah Ferguson

Glauce J. Fleury

Veronica Gardea

Anthony Giacinti

Jonathan Haddon

Adrianne Haley

Kathy Hamilton

Jessica Han

Douglas Harris

Muriel Harris

Caroline Harvey

Sarah Hutton

Josephine Jakubowski

Taryn Klassen

David Lach

Meesoo Lee

Su-Feh Lee

Ingrid Leong

Ken Lim

Lydia Lovison

Eamonn Mackenzie

Jennifer Mascall

Andrew McKinley

Rachel Meyer

Marian Milanovic

Robert Minifie

Lynne Mossey

Tanya Murree

Haruko Okano

Douglas and Marion Oldenburg

Jeremy Orsted

Brian Page

Racheal Prince

Mandy Rabinovitch

Hilary Russell

Adriana Santamaria

Ilona Scharer

Nicole Seguiin

Michael Sider

Peter Smith

Susanna Uchatius

Lexi Vajda

Wen Wang

Christine Wight

Cindy Williams

Kazuho Yamamoto

Suzann Zimmering

The Vancouver International Dance Festival is a member of the CanDance Network of Dance Presenters.

VIDF 2023 Festival Program

Aakash Odedra Company photo by Nirvair Singh Rai