Bundles — 2026 Festival

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We’ve put together day bundles to give you the ultimate back-to-back Festival experience, and curated bundles that highlight different parts of our programming.

Make a day of it: Sat Jan 24

2021 @ 2pm

ANNEX (See map)
Running Time: 90-120min

A father rendered as code, a daughter rebuilding the data. 2021 blurs the line between remembrance and replication—an experiment in what it means to be alive. More show info

Image description: A woman with a kind expression holds a thick stack of papers as though she's delivering a presentation. Behind her on the stage, an out-of-focus screen shows a plainly-dressed video game character in a sterile environment.

Le Beau Monde @ 5pm

The Roundhouse (See map)
Running Time: 75min

Three people from the future try to recreate theatre—whatever that was. Le Beau Monde is a sci-fi séance for the lost art of being human. More show info

Image description: Two men hold each other like teens at a highschool dance. They pucker their lips, but turn their heads away from eachother, towards the audience. Behind them, a third performer watches anxiously.

Khalil Khalil @ 7pm

The Nest (See map)
Running Time: 50min

Carrying the name of his martyred brother, Khalil moves between presence and absence—an intimate search for self beyond the weight of inheritance. More show info

Image description: A young man stares out from stage with intensity holding a microphone. His eyes have no colour, giving him the appearance of being haunted. Warm light bathes his olive skin.
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Make a day of it: Sat Jan 31

Everything Has Disappeared @ 2pm

York Theatre (See map)
Running Time: 70min

Part illusion, part revelation, Everything Has Disappeared conjures the invisible threads of Filipino labour woven through our daily lives—with humour, heart, and just a hint of magic. More show info

Image description: A woman dressed in a white suit poses playfully with her back towards the audience. She is far back on a stage filled with haze, framed in a wide doorway flanked by triangular white screens, and lit with showy blue and red spotlights.

Catching Up To the Future of Our Past @ 4pm

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60min

A duet between memory and possibility, Catching Up to the Future of Our Past maps midlife’s motion—where nostalgia and anticipation meet in orbit. More show info

Image description: Two dancers wearing astronaut helmets create an absurd scene: one sits with her back to us in a lawn chair under a reading lamp while the other holds up a watering can, partially obscured by an array of potted tropical plants.

Orpheus @ 8pm

Vancouver Playhouse (See map)
Running Time: 70min

Between dream and reality, Orpheus is a visceral journey through fracture toward reconnection—a dance of descent, transformation, and renewal. More show info

Image description: At the centre of a tangled clump of dancers, a woman wraps her hands around the neck of a man who holds his hands up in a gesture of prayer. Behind them, a huge sheet drapes, dyed with a muted palette of greys and blues.
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Make a day of it: Sat Feb 7

Wayqeycuna @ 2pm

The Roundhouse (See map)
Running Time: 70min

Blending Andean ritual, testimony, and performance, Wayqeycuna weaves personal and collective histories with political manifestos to confront erasure. More show info

Image description: Outdoors against a backdrop of the misty mountains, two Indigenous men stare forwards with serious, engaging expressions. Both wrap bright blankets, embroidered exquisitely with bold colourful flowers, around their shoulders, covering their bodies and further emphasizing their serious faces.

The Motha’ Kiki Ball @ 5pm

The Birdhouse (See map)
Running Time: 4-5hrs

From Vogue to runway, Black Out’s The Motha’ Kiki Ball crowns Black motherhood as origin story, house legacy, and creative force, serving matriarch moments and original icon energy. More show info

Image description: A Black femme steps onto the runway in gorgeous golden vogue ball attire: impeccable makeup framed by an elegant gold headpice, a structured gold bodice, generous flakes of gold on her tights. She holds up her immense jacket so that a huge swath of luxurious gold fabric drapes over her head and frames her form.

TESTO @ 8pm

Performance Works (See map)
Running Time: 60min

TESTO is a sweaty, funny, and tender mess—spilling desire, dysphoria, and the magic of becoming. More show info

Image description: A trans-masculine drag artist stands on a dark stage, holding an LED-sign where the word "now" glows red. Their bald head is turned in profile, with a checkerboard smile painted across their face. They wear a billowing white coat made of luxuriously gauzy material, which hangs open, exposing a flat, muscular chest.
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See it First: the World Premieres

Khalil Khalil – Sun Jan 25 @ 2pm

The Nest (See map)
Running Time: 50min

Carrying the name of his martyred brother, Khalil moves between presence and absence—an intimate search for self beyond the weight of inheritance. More show info

Image description: A young man stares out from stage with intensity holding a microphone. His eyes have no colour, giving him the appearance of being haunted. Warm light bathes his olive skin.

WAIL – Mon Jan 26 @ 8pm

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60min

WAIL moves through sound, light, and breath to reveal how joy endures—fragile and unruly—within the noise of the world. More show info

Image description: Six dancers are caught mid-action, each body making a different shape. They hold microphones with long colourful cords that hang and twist between them like squiggles on a page.

Kamwe Kamwe – Tue Jan 27 @ 8pm

Performance Works (See map)
Running Time: 60min

Sand shifts. Voices rise. Kamwe Kamwe (One by One) moves through what power tries to bury—this is dance as testimony: beautiful, brutal, and alive. More show info

Remember that time we met in the future? – Thur Jan 29 @ 7pm

Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (See map)
Running Time: 75min

Within a transforming landscape of salvaged materials and shifting light, Remember that time we met in the future? follows four Indigenous artists moving through nonlinear time, connecting body, land, and spirit to trace ancestral memory and emerging futures. More show info

Catching Up to the Future of Our Past – Fri Jan 30 @ 8pm

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60min

A duet between memory and possibility, Catching Up to the Future of Our Past maps midlife’s motion—where nostalgia and anticipation meet in orbit. More show info

Split Tooth: Saputjiji – Thur Feb 5 @ 8PM

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (See map)
Running Time: 75min

In Split Tooth: Saputjiji, Tanya Tagaq expands the world of her acclaimed book into a staged realm where music, memory, and myth collide in transformative force. More show info

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Around the World in 6 Shows

Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience – Fri Jan 23 @ 8pm

Waterfront Theatre (See map)
Running Time: 65min

Through fragments of real lives, Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience traces love and hope amid the everyday realities of war—reminding us of our shared fragility and enduring humanity. More show info

Image description: On a pitch black stage, three women's faces are illuminated from below with flashlights. Their shadowy expressions are serious, as though peering into an unknown darkness.

Khalil Khalil – Sat Jan 24 @ 7pm

The Nest (See map)
Running Time: 50min

Carrying the name of his martyred brother, Khalil moves between presence and absence—an intimate search for self beyond the weight of inheritance. More show info

Image description: A young man stares out from stage with intensity holding a microphone. His eyes have no colour, giving him the appearance of being haunted. Warm light bathes his olive skin.

Kamwe Kamwe – Tue Jan 27 @ 8pm

Performance Works (See map)
Running Time: 60min

Sand shifts. Voices rise. Kamwe Kamwe (One by One) moves through what power tries to bury—this is dance as testimony: beautiful, brutal, and alive. More show info

Kiuryaq – Wed Jan 28 @ 8pm

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (See map)
Running Time: 80min
7pm pre-show artist talk and reception

Across the circumpolar North, Kiuryaq weaves theatre, music, and light into a living story of ancestry, connection, and the Northern Lights. More show info

Everything Has Disappeared – Fri Jan 30 @ 7:30pm

York Theatre (See map)
Running Time: 70min

Part illusion, part revelation, Everything Has Disappeared conjures the invisible threads of Filipino labour woven through our daily lives—with humour, heart, and just a hint of magic. More show info

Wayqeycuna – Sat Feb 6 @ 2pm

The Roundhouse (See map)
Running Time: 70min

Blending Andean ritual, testimony, and performance, Wayqeycuna weaves personal and collective histories with political manifestos to confront erasure. More show info

Image description: Outdoors against a backdrop of the misty mountains, two Indigenous men stare forwards with serious, engaging expressions. Both wrap bright blankets, embroidered exquisitely with bold colourful flowers, around their shoulders, covering their bodies and further emphasizing their serious faces.
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Dance Made in Canada

WAIL – Mon Jan 26 @ 8pm

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60min

WAIL moves through sound, light, and breath to reveal how joy endures—fragile and unruly—within the noise of the world. More show info

Image description: Six dancers are caught mid-action, each body making a different shape. They hold microphones with long colourful cords that hang and twist between them like squiggles on a page.

Remember that time we met in the future? – Thur Jan 29 @ 7pm

Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (See map)
Running Time: 75min

Within a transforming landscape of salvaged materials and shifting light, Remember that time we met in the future? follows four Indigenous artists moving through nonlinear time, connecting body, land, and spirit to trace ancestral memory and emerging futures. More show info

Catching Up to the Future of Our Past – Fri Jan 30 @ 8pm

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60min

A duet between memory and possibility, Catching Up to the Future of Our Past maps midlife’s motion—where nostalgia and anticipation meet in orbit. More show info

Orpheus – Sat Jan 31 @ 8pm

Vancouver Playhouse (See map)
Running Time: 70min

Between dream and reality, Orpheus is a visceral journey through fracture toward reconnection—a dance of descent, transformation, and renewal. More show info

Image description: At the centre of a tangled clump of dancers, a woman wraps her hands around the neck of a man who holds his hands up in a gesture of prayer. Behind them, a huge sheet drapes, dyed with a muted palette of greys and blues.

The Brutal Joy – Thur Feb 5 @ 8pm

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 45min

Part ritual, part reverie, The Brutal Joy transforms dance, light, and style into acts of imagination and self-determination—alive to the rhythm of what could be. More show info

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