Amour, acide et noix (Love, Acid and Nuts) | Daniel Léveillé | DanceHouse | Vancouver Playhouse | October 24 – 25, 2025 Four dancers stomp onto the stage and perform jump squats. Their feet slap down on the stage amidst the darkness and stark silence. The long pauses leave plenty of time for the audience to ponder the nudity that confronts us and consider its purpose. While there is a certain element of shock, it is quickly overtaken by the choreography’s meditative effect. Daniel Léveillé’s Amour, acide et noix is stark, daring, and visceral. Despite an overall serious tone and lack of facial expression, there are moments of humour that pop up throughout, all the more prominent amidst such a pared-down display of physical feats. As Vivaldi’s Four Seasons begins to play, the
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Peeping Tom’s Diptych combines innovative choreography with surreal alternate realities
Diptych (The Missing Door and the Lost Room) | Peeping Tom | DanceHouse | Vancouver Playhouse | April 24 – 26, 2025 A man sits slumped over in his chair. A woman lies face down on the floor; she’s suddenly dragged away through a door. We are immediately drawn into the surreal world of Diptych, where the laws of gravity are flexible, and the boundaries of reality are stretched. In a setting where everything is a bit off kilter, the characters on stage grapple with their own personal demons while struggling to understand the events around them. The man who
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,