Duck Pond | Circa | DanceHouse | Vancouver Playhouse | January 22-25, 2025 Acrobatic feats, physical humour, emotive contemporary movement, burlesque, and sequined duck feet: Duck Pond is a true spectacle. Australia’s preeminent dance-circus company returned to Vancouver with another … adaptation of a classic ballet. Duck Pond is an artful mashup of Swan Lake and The Ugly Duckling. The company first wowed Vancouver audiences in 2023 with Sacre, a new version of the Rite of Spring — both co-presentations between DanceHouse and The Cultch. When an ugly duckling falls in love with a prince, the feathers fly — quite literally.
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The Mirror reveals contemporary circus at its best
The Mirror by Gravity and Other Myths presented by DanceHouse and The Cultch January 24 – 27 | Vancouver Playhouse A hand reaches through the black stage curtain, fumbling as it tries to turn on a boombox. Giving up on that, the body attached to the hand emerges from behind the curtain and moves the boombox, which is perched atop a stand, to sit in front of a microphone. As singer Megan Drury pauses on a catchy song on the radio, the curtains open to reveal the rest of the company performing various dance moves or acrobatic tricks. With an improvisational,