BWDC enters its 43rd Season of presenting Canadian contemporary dance.

"In my opinion, dancing is really where it’s at. Each show in our season features great dance artists", says Artistic Director, Brian Webb. "This season is all about celebrating dancing in its many forms."

The season begins January 29 & 30 with Vancouver's Helen Walkley bringing her haunting piece JOHN, based on the disappearance of her brother in May of 1969, never to be heard from again. "This is one of the most intimate dance works I’ve ever seen. Her dancers, Josh Martin and Billy Marchenski, are powerful", says Webb.

BWDC welcomes back MAYDAY, February 8 & 9 for a presentation of Mélanie Demers’ La Goddam Voie Lactée. An aesthetic little Big Bang, La Goddam Voie Lactée is an exercise in self-imagination, a means of finding our bearings in this imperfect and infinite world which is our common belonging and inheritance.

In a world premiere, BWDC is thrilled to present Bboyizm, In My Body, March 4 & 5. Yvon Soglo (Crazy Smooth) fuses street dance and theatrical performance through an ensemble of dancers that simply knocks your socks off. BWDC is proud to be a co-producer of this work.

In April, BWDC presents Caroline Shaw and Vanessa Goodman in Graveyards and Gardens. Graveyards and Gardens (April 21-23) is a collaborative performance installation. This new work examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events, embracing the various elaborations, distortions, and omissions. Caroline Shaw is the first woman and the youngest person to receive a Pulitzer Prize for music composition.

The season is completed May 27 & 28 in the Army + Navy Building featuring local artists KnK Collective, Kate Stashko and Krista Lin, in once and after by Toronto choreographer, Heidi Strauss. In a defunct downtown retail store soon to be redeveloped, once and after brings together two women and long-time friends in a movement work that balances the suspension of time with impending change. Take a trip with them. A confluence of personal and communal histories, see what lasts and what dissolves.

Tickets are $40 (general admission), $25 (student/senior) and available now. Season passes are also available for $160 (general), $100 (student / senior). Performance locations are as follows:

Helen Walkley | MacEwan University, Allard Hall (1110 104 Ave), Theatre Lab
MAYDAY | MacEwan University, Allard Hall (1110 104 Ave), Triffo Theatre
Bboyizm | University of Alberta, Timms Centre for the Arts (87 Ave 112 St)
Caroline Shaw & Vanessa Goodman | MacEwan University, Allard Hall (1110 104 Ave), Theatre LabKnK Collective | Army & Navy Building (10411 Whyte Avenue)

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