A cartoon Manga couple and modern-day sorcerers are just some of the wild characters that will take the stage in the Scotiabank Dance Centre's just-announced 2013-14 season.

The venue's Global Dance Connections series kicks off on September 21 with Compagnie Pedro Pauwels's Sors, in which the renegade Belgian-born, France-based choreographer comissions choreographers from around the world to create contemporary versions of the sorcerer. The theatrical, sometimes comical piece was inspired by expressionist pioneer Mary Wigman's Witch Dance, from 1914.

He's followed by Liquid Loft's Running Sushi from October 24 to 26, a piece that invites the audience to randomly select dance duets for a Manga couple that takes on the shallow world of consumer culture and fashion. The Austrain company has earned such awards as a Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale.

In the new year, as part of the PuSh Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver's urban-amped 605 Collective remounts its Inheritor Album from January 31 to February 1. The crack six-member team moves to the heady animation of L.A. artist Miwa Matreyek.

And finally, in a copresentation with the Chutzpah! Festival, the Global series wraps up with veteran choreographer Serge Bennathan's Monsieur Aubertin, an autobiography of the former DanceMakers artistic director's life in dance, April 10 to 12.

Tickets to the Global Dance Connections series go on sale via www.ticketstonight.ca on August 6.

Amid other season highlights, the centre celebrates its open house on September 14 with a premiere by tap-dancing virtuoso Danny Nielsen (November 20 to 23), and brings in everything from Ukrainian folk performers The Dovbush Dancers to Shamiak's Bollywood Jazz in its noonhour series from fall through spring.

More information and a full schedule is at www.thedancecentre.ca/.