The Dance Centre released its 2019-20 season today, and its Global Dance Connections series brings in troupes from as far away as Brazil, Australia, and Israel to Vancouver.

The season kicks off at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from October 3 to 5, with Rio de Janeiro's Focus Cia De Dança, with the work Still Reich. Helmed by choreographer Alex Neoral, the troupe draws from traditional Brazilian movement and rhythms then melds them with cutting-edge-contemporary styles and ballet. Its Still Reich is made up of four works set to the driving music of America's Steve Reich. 

October 16 to 17, the Scotiabank Dance Centre hosts Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin’s Split, a duet for two women, one clothed and one naked. It explores negotiating with oneself and others in a world of increased pressure and reduced resources, cycling through harmony, competition, and aggression. 

Leading Vancouver innovators at Out Innerspace Dance Theatre will premiere a new work called Bygones December 11 to 14. Created by codirectors David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen, who perform with dancers Renée Sigouin, Elya Grant, and David Harvey, it promises "ghostly architecture" and "a haunting universe of pseudo-things and supernatural selves". 

Wen Wei Dance and Turning Point Ensemble are on tap to debut a new, unnamed work in a copresentation with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and SFU Woodward's in the New Year. The score is composed by Turning Point artistic director Owen Underhill and local composer Dorothy Chang, to be played on Chinese and Western instruments with guest musicians from Taiwan. The show is offsite at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre in SFU Woodward's, at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Also part of PuSh, but back at the Dance Centre, look for Montreal-based artist Dana Michel and her daring Cutlass Spring in February. Her latest work delves into the mystery of the sexual self, exploring how cultural repression and her life as a performer, a mother, and a lover have shaped her sexual identity.

In March, Canadian contemporary-dance master Bill Coleman unleashes Dollhouse on the Scotiabank Dance Centre stage in a copresentation with Vancouver New Music. In the work, which incorporates mechanical and electronic objects, both handmade and found, a lone figure inhabits a cluttered room that starts collapsing around him. He shares the stage with sound artist Gordon Monahan.

April 23 to 25, Israel's Hillel Kogan ends the season with We Love Arabs--in English for the Thursday and Saturday shows (with French surtitles) and in French on Friday--in a copresentation with Theatre La Seizième. In the biting social commentary, a Jewish choreographer enlists an Arab dancer to help create a work that will overcome fears and carry a message of peace.

Single tickets for Wen Wei Dance/Turning Point Ensemble and Hillel Kogan go on sale fall 2019; subscription packages and single tickets for other shows are available now at TicketsTonight.ca.

Among other announcements, the Dance Centre set the date for its Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House for September 14; and the biennial Dance in Vancouver showcase runs from November 20 to 24.