Arts & Culture
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:30pm-8:30pmBallet BC Annex, the junior company of Ballet BC, performs a 60-minute triple bill at Alliance Française Vancouver: two world premieres plus Out Innerspace's Last Flower, for people who'd rather watch than interview.
Oakridge, Cambie Corridor
More infoDinner asks your mouth to do all the work. This asks your eyes to clock in instead, and nobody has to invent a follow-up question about someone's commute. Ballet BC Annex is the junior company of Ballet BC. Two world premieres, from Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe and Michael Garcia, share the bill with Last Flower by Out Innerspace. Here's the real hazard: the pause. Dance loves a stillness that looks exactly like an ending. One of you claps, the other hisses "not yet", and suddenly you're a two-person orchestra with no conductor and a very public tempo problem. Settle it before the lights go down. Wait until the dancers visibly relax, then clap like you planned it all along. Afterwards, hold a tiny awards ceremony. Premieres come without a reputation, so there's no official favourite to disagree with. Whoever called the false ending presents the trophy, and the other person gets to accept it graciously.
Head to the Théâtre at Alliance Française Vancouver, 6161 Cambie Street. The Canada Line stops at Oakridge-41st and Langara-49th, and paid underground parking is off the back lane. Agree on your clapping rule, watch all three works, then hold your mini awards ceremony for favourite piece and best false ending.
7:30pm - 8:30pm
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