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Blue-filtered image featuring text superimposed over a photograph. Bottom: Global Dance Connections series Corporeal Imago. Medium close-up of a group of dancers, frozen in a moment in a cloud of haze, as they twist and bend around and over each other.
Blue-filtered image featuring text superimposed over a photograph. Top left: The Dance Centre. Bottom: Global Dance Connections series Corporeal Imago. Medium close-up of a group of dancers, frozen in a moment in a cloud of haze, as they twist and bend around and over each other.

Transfigured bodies Transfigured bodies

The human form dissolving into the landscape in a world premiere dance performance.

Home Events Performance The Dance Centre presents: Corporeal Imago’s Drift

The Dance Centre presents: Corporeal Imago’s Drift

Founded by award-winning choreographer and aerial and dance artist Gabrielle Martin, Corporeal Imago (Corpo Imago) creates at the crossroads of circus, dance and visual theatre, confronting the myth of individual destiny and revealing a vast ecology where humans are fragile, complicit and entangled with more-than-human forces.

With this latest work, Martin, along with co-director and choreographer Jeremiah Hughes, push the boundaries of physical and visual performance, imagining the haunted aftermath of the Anthropocene* through transfigured bodies, cosmic noise and immersive effects. Drift is the performance of a world where the human form has dissolved into the backdrop of a landscape scarred by its own existence. In this altered ecology, time and space are no longer defined by human agency. Bodies are mere echoes, drifting through the debris of an eternal flux.​

Drift was choreographed with performers Andréane Leclerc, Arash Khakpour, Davi Rodrigues, Nicole Rose Bond, Vanessa Goodman, Nasiv Sall Kaur and Ysadora Dias, and features music by Jo Hirabayashi.

Presented through The Dance Centre’s Artist-in-Residence program as part of their Global Dance Connections series, which features exciting dance works by artists from across Canada.

More about Corpo Imago

A Black-led contemporary circus and dance organization, Corpo Imago work with a majority of Black and People of Colour collaborators across creation, performance, design and training. Their works have been presented across Canada, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Beyond performance, Corpo Imago advances artist training and discipline development through subsidized aerial and acrobatic dance classes, workshops and mentorship opportunities. Read more about them and their history here.

About The Dance Centre

Established in 1986 as a resource for dance professionals and the public in British Columbia, The Dance Centre is an organization offering a range of activities unparalleled in Canadian dance. Their goal is to support the development of a vibrant dance scene in BC and increase the profile of dance by providing resources and services for dance professionals, presenting public performances and events, and operating one of Canada’s flagship dance facilities, Scotiabank Dance Centre. Read more about them here.

Smokey, blue-filtered image of dancers twisting and bending around and over each other.

(Photo credits: Corporeal Imago’s Drift. The image on the Events page features Davi Rodrigues, Nicole Rose Bond, Vanessa Goodman, Eowynn Enquist & Isak Enquist. All photos by Chris Randle.)

 

Event details

Presented by: A Dance Centre presentation of a Corporeal Imago production 

Type of event: dance performance

Co-directors & choreographers: Gabrielle Martin & Jeremiah Hughes. Read about them here. 

Performers & co-choreographers: Andréane Leclerc, Arash Khakpour, Davi Rodrigues, Nicole Rose Bond, Vanessa Goodman, Nasiv Sall Kaur & Ysadora Dias. Read about them here.

Music by: Jo Hirabayashi 

Dates: Thursday, May 21 – Saturday, May 23, 2026. There will be a post-show talkback on Friday, May 22.

Start time: 8:00 PM PT (Please note that, to ensure the performers’ safety, they cannot admit latecomers.)

Duration: 50 minutes (no intermission)

Cost: All tickets will have a C$1.00 facility fee added.

  • Regular admission: C$38.00
  • Under 30, students, seniors & accessible seating: C$29.00

Location: Scotiabank Dance Centre, Faris Family Studio, 677 Davie St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 2G6

Trailer: Trailer can be found here.

Booking link: Book your tickets here. When booking tickets, patrons who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids should select the ‘accessible’ seat type to ensure seating in the front row which is stair-free. Limited spaces available. Please note that they cannot admit latecomers after the show has started.

Contact details: The Dance Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Level 6, 677 Davie St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 2G6, Canada; (604) 606-6400 or toll-free at 1 (877) 649-3010, info@thedancecentre.ca, thedancecentre.ca

 

Content warning: Includes haze, smoke, strobe-like effects.

Accessibility: This performance is in the Faris Family Studio, an intimate black box theatre space that is wheelchair-accessible. When booking tickets, patrons who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids should select the ‘accessible’ seat type to ensure seating in the front row which is stair-free. Limited spaces available. There are wheelchair-accessible washrooms in the theatre lobby. Please contact The Dance Centre if you require any assistance (see contact info above).

Refund policy: All ticket sales are final.

 

* The period of time during which human activities have had an environmental impact on the Earth regarded as constituting a distinct geological time interval (Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary).