Twelve Minutes Max is a chance to see some of the city’s top emerging dance artists before they make it big. Think of it as an eclectic tapas menu of short works at the Scotiabank Dance Centre on Friday night (June 12).

Among the five contemporary pieces are Con8 Collective’s Vanilla to the Touch (shown here), a playful look at growing up in West Coast suburbia by artistic directors Charlotte Newman and Georgina Alpen; Caitlin Griffin’s here or there, inspired by the female experience of war and the time she spent training at Israel’s Galilee Dance Village (created with dancer Delphine Leroux); MAYCE’s Veiled, a trio made in collaboration with actor, singer, and composer Janelle Reid; Naomi Brand’s Re:play, a duet that explores the space between two bodies; and Natalie Tin Yin Gan and Francesca Frewer’s Our Gestures Are No Longer Ours, a look at the function of spectacle within performance.

Expect innovation—to the max.