Brian Webb Dance Company
48th Season
The Season Edit (Subscription)
6 contemporary dance experiences for the price of 5
$200 – Adult
$125 – Student/Senior (65+)
Individual Tickets
Adults - $40
Student/Senior (65+) - $25
Welcome to the BWDC's 2026-27 Season of Contemporary Dance.
This season will bring you so many adventures as to the potential of what dance and interdisciplinary performance may be.
We all know that the contemporary arts are a risk, the adventure of the new that may bring us huge joy and might even bring us challenges where values may be questioned. This is how the arts are a centre point of every culture.
Rachel Meyer
Mama, do we die when we sleep?
October 15 & 16
Freemasons Hall of Edmonton
Inspired by Rachel’s two year old daughter’s question: “Do we die when we sleep?”, this work explores the emotion of wonder. Imagination and dream-space infiltrate responsibility and conformity, as some necessary invitation to possibility.
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RITUÆLS
January 29 & 30
Westbury Theatre
Rituæls is a grand artistic gesture bringing together works from the Middle Ages to the 21st century by Hildegard von Bingen, Arvo Pärt, Michael Tippett, Nicole Lizée, Bryce Dessner, and Jocelyn Morlock. Through music and movement, this programme reflects the intricacies of human connection, embracing the beauty and pain of our coexistence.
Jeanette Kotowich
BOLT
February 5 & 6
Westbury Theatre
Indigenous created, BOLT is a reclamation of artistic sovereignty, forged through kinship and collaboration. Through this ensemble journey, a rich lexicon of imagery unfolds, embodying the meanings of BOLT: a connecting force, an activation of positive energy and kinetic joy.
Brian Webb, Marla Palakkamanil, Sanjukta Sinha
Canada/India... India/Canada
World Premiere Performances
April 28 & 29
Westbury Theatre
Brian Webb collaborates with India's Anuj and Neha Mishra with music by Gary James Joynes and Deepak Paramashivan. India's Sanjukta Sinha creates a new work for Edmonton dancer Marla Palakkamanil and performs a solo. This is a first time in history where this Canada/India relationship is explored.
James L'Hirondelle Viveiros
Full of Grace
World Premiere Solo
May 14 & 15
Timms Centre for the Arts, Second Playing Space
Where are you from? Who is your family? What does a body remember? Through these questions, Full of Grace investigates what we carry forward from those who came before us, becoming an exuberant act of reciprocity across generations. Between those still here and those no longer with us, it asks the universal question of what remains when histories have been obscured.
Amber Borotsik
Bad Liar
World Premiere Group Dance
May 28 & 29
Timms Centre for the Arts, Second Playing Space
Bad Liar sprang from all the bad lying Amber did throughout her experiences of pregnancy loss. She’s also pretty sure she’s lied other times too. Times when her body, heart or life has faltered and flopped strangely, and the thought of even starting to explain feels impossible. Bad Liar brings Amber together with sound designer/composer Aaron Macri and an ensemble of dance/theatre performers to explore truth, fiction and spaces of speechlessness.
The Brian Webb Dance Company (BWDC) is honoured and thankful to practice our art and live on the ancient lands of diverse Indigenous peoples including the Cree, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, Ojibway/ Saulteaux/Anishinaabe, Inuit, and all First Peoples of Canada. We are committed to being respectful and good neighbours. To be able to dance here, at this ancient meeting place now known as Edmonton, fills us with joy.
