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Fin De Fiesta

It’s the end of a castanet-clacking, foot-stomping era, as Centro Flamenco, one of the city’s oldest schools of the Spanish art form, prepares to shut its doors. Founded by dancer Rosario Ancer and guitarist Victor Kolstee way back in 1989, the school has left a legacy of incredible flamenco talent in the city. The grand Fin de Fiesta show that will act as its final curtain call will highlight all the skill that’s been passed on to the community over the decades, with performances by the school’s professional-program dancers, interpreting Ancer’s Reflexiones, and by Centro Flamenco dancers, in works by Ancer, Veronica (Bonnie) Stewart, Afifa Eidher, and Sula Boxall. Come out to say adios.

Centro Flamenco presents Fin de Fiesta on Saturday (July 8) at the Vancouver Playhouse.

High five

Five events you just can’t miss this week

The Merchant of Venice

Hard-hitting themes in a 2017-set rendition of Shakespeare’s explosive work.
To September 16 on the Howard Family Stage at Bard on the Beach

Oath-Midnight Rain

Beijing Modern Dance’s epic, hypnotic work on an intimate stage.
July 6 and 7 at the Firehall Arts Centre

LandMarks

A thought-provoking exhibit that looks critically and diversely at Canada 150 and beyond.
To July 15 at SFU Woodward’s

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

Escape into a gorgeous oasis of lily pads and roses.
To October 1 at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Phantom of the Opera

Hey, you have to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s chandelier-crashing megahit once in your life.
July 12 to 23 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre