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 perenially popular Dances for a Small Stage, now in its 24th installment, includes a variety of dancers and performers from contemporary and ballet, to hip hop and burlesque, performing on a 10 foot by 13 foot stage.
For this edition, artists are encouraged to creat 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 in the university's 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 of the Drive, 2205 Commercial Dr.
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