27th InFrinGinG Dance Festival

Start: Thursday, July 3, 2025 12:00PM
End: Sunday, July 13, 2025 5:30PM

Running July 3-13th, the 27th Annual InFrinGinG Dance Festival opens Thursday July 3rd with DanceABLE, a dance creation developed by facilitators and dancers who experience disabilities. Witness and be inspired by this original performance, supported by the Port Theatre! Welcome renowned Toronto choreographer Sid Ryan Eilers, who will be in residence for a week. They will perform at the Port as well as offer a class, Queer Conscious Moving Bodies, AND facilitate the creation of the SPLASHmob, an annual creative process. With its title, “Joy is a Home with Many Rooms”, the SPLASHmob (think flashmob - add water!) closes InFrinGinG at swy a lana Lagoon on Sunday, July 13th. Register to participate in this movement exploration suitable for all experience levels, ages, identities. More than a creative workshop - it is a radical act of inclusion and a living expression of the right to exist, express, and thrive - all in the spirit of community building, connection, joy and a refreshing lagoon dip! Required! An extra special local innovation: take in your dancing while wandering the lush woods of Bowen Park via QR codes linking to dance videos filmed on site at locations around the park. The artist rendered map will lead the way to view the out of doors through the eyes of local dancers, Samantha Letourneau and Genevieve Johnson. Viewers will have the opportunity to visit the installation, QUANTUM CONVERSATION II - TRACES – The Other Within, throughout the festival and experience a live performance at the map’s last stop on Wednesday at 6:30pm at the Bowen Park’s Amphitheatre. It’s Night Market season and InFrinGinG will be there Thursday, July 10th. Take in the cross-cultural community drum circle, One World Rhythms, then be captivated by Glimpse of India, a celebration of Indian Dance hosted by Vancouver Island Bhangra. Pop into the Port Theatre after the Night Market to view, “Kiss the Stormy Sky,” a powerful interdisciplinary solo performance by Sid Ryan Eilers, Eilers Dance Theatre. Their four-city national tour of Kiss The Stormy Sky offers a compelling visual masterpiece of dance theatre and emotionally raw performance rooted in Eilers’ personal lineage. Spanning the Russian Revolution, WWII, and the #MeToo movement, Eilers portrays four generations of family—great-great grandfather, grandmother, mother, and self—interrogating inherited trauma, queer existence, and the gender binary. Meanwhile, If you fancy quiet evenings or weekends curled on a couch, several dance films will be available online on our website, July 3 to 10, to bring you this 3-D form in 2-D, from all angles The final weekend of the fest is filled with activities for the OUT of doors! On both Saturday July 12 and Sunday July 13, your kids can run their imagination and play hard in the KidZ Zone with the return of the beloved PLAYBRIOLA, everyone’s favourite plays’cool - no adults allowed! NEW THIS YEAR grown ups play too! The Slow Zone for Adults will allow a space for creative R&R, a touch of silly and quiet self reflection - no kids allowed (only kids at heart). Alongside Dragonboat Festival since 2012, the festival’s final weekend feature days long celebrations of dance, song and music. Saturday, July 12 enjoy qwu ‘u lush ‘utl swy a lana - curated and hosted by Tsatassaya White and featuring dynamic Indigenous family dancing. Sunday, July 13 rock along with CHILL: Hip Hop Battle curated and hosted by VIBE, guests and judges, including the one and only, AJ Megaman! A seriously fun competition - complete with prizes - it’s gonna be hot! So many ways to meet. See you there!