Editor’s choice

Carmina Burana

Last year, Vancouverites got their first chance to experience the sculptural, dynamically beautiful movement of Rome’s Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. The program of short works showed off all the different sides of choreographer Mauro Astolfi’s troupe. Now he returns with an epic full-length work, Carmina Burana, set to the instantly recognizable, rousing choruses of Carl Orff and others. It’s no surprise the work has been performed more than 100 times around the world: Astolfi manages to turn the bawdy medieval texts into something witty, edgy, and wildly virtuosic, all amid playfully used cabinets and tables, and chiaroscuro lighting.

Carmina Burana is at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre from March 4 to 6.

High five

Five events you just can’t miss at Chutzpah

Mark Schiff

The sharp, old-school comedian has toured with Jerry Seinfeld.
February 20 at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre

The Klezmatics

Celebrate with the klezmer innovators as they fete 30 years.
February 23 at the Rothstein

Wrestling Jerusalem

The one-man show about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could not be more timely.
March 1 and 2 at the Rothstein

Lyla Canté

A Jewish cantor, a Gypsy flamenco guitarist, and a rocking good time.
March 9 at the Rothstein

Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion

Our first look at a rising U.S. dance troupe with a political charge.
March 11 to 13 at the Rothstein