Sometimes, dance explores culture or history. Sometimes it explores fairy tales or love stories. And sometimes, it explores current events, politics and even crime.
Former Ballet B.C. principal dancer and Burnaby choreographer Edmond Kilpatrick is performing in the upcoming Dances for a Small Stage with a new work that comments on the recent Stanley Cup playoff riots in Vancouver.
The popular Dances for a Small Stage, now in its 24th installment, includes a variety of dancers and performers from contemporary to hip hop, performing on a 10-by-13-foot stage.
For this edition, artists are encouraged to create works around the theme of, and in response to, complacency in times of duress.
Kilpatrick, who is also an instructor at SFU's Burnaby campus dance program, is creating a new work which will include Ballet B.C. dancer Leon Fiezo-Gas and Science Friction's co-artistic director and performer Farley Johansson.
Dances for a Small Stage runs from Aug. 10 to 12 at The Legion on the Drive, 2205 Commercial Dr.
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