Co.ERASGA/Complot: EXpose

A powerful new full-length duet exploring sexuality, gender and identity, EXpose brings together two exceptional male solo artists: Vancouver’s own Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Artistic Director of Co. ERASGA, whose sophisticated works have toured around the world; and Martin Inthamoussú, a driving force in Uruguay’s contemporary dance scene, whose passionate works grapple with provocative socio-political ideas. These two charismatic performers seek to expose the complexity of the personal and public territories within the gay psyche, creating a spellbinding theatrical and physical dialogue.

April 14-16 at 8pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver. Post-show artist talkback April 15. Tickets $28/$20 from www.ticketstonight.ca Info www.thedancecentre.caNote: this show includes nudity.

Company Drift: sound machine

The Dance Centre's Global Dance Connections series continues in January with the internationally acclaimed Swiss ensemble Company Drift in sound machine. Consider how science might investigate some of life's more absurd scientific questions: how can the inaudible be made audible? How does a fly scream when it bumps into a burning hot light bulb? What does Mr Fish say to Ms Fish when he asks for her fin in marriage? Company Drift gathers these and other 'inaudible' noises and mixes them with dance, theatre, sound and video to exhibit a dreamlike world that is profound and surreal, tragic and witty, and continually surprising.

Thursday-Saturday January 27-29, 2011 at Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver. Tickets $28/$20 from www.ticketstonight.ca. Info: www.thedancecentre.ca

Presented with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: www.pushfestival.ca