Vancouver International Dance Festival programming couldn’t be more eclectic. Here are just a few of the local and visiting highlights you should try to fit into your dance adventuring.

Kinesis Dance Somatheatro

(At the Scotiabank Dance Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday [March 1 to 4])

Artistic director Paras Terezakis marks his company’s third decade with In PENUMBRA, a multimedia ode to our search for utopia. Expect powerful physicality and a striking look, with atmospheric use of light bulbs.

Yayoi Theatre Movement

(At Studio 1398 from Wednesday [March 1] to March 10)

Hand-painted scenography by Shizuka Kai, video projections by Kyle Stooshnov, and surreal piano strains by Sara Davis Buechner promise to make Okuni—Mother of Kabuki, the new work by Vancouver-based Yayoi Hirano, come to multisensory life.

Compagnie Virginie Brunelle

(At the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre from March 16 to 18)

The last time the Quebec sensation came here, with her piece Foutrement, she paired hockey pads and pointe shoes in a boldly soul-baring look at the brutality of love. Now, with another sizzling duet, To the Pain That Lingers, we expect the choreographer to ignite the same kind of fire.

Kitt Johnson

(At the Roundhouse from March 23 to 25)

You can read the Danish performer’s solo Post No Bills in terms of existentialist theory and the embodiment of our world’s ills. Or you can just sit, mesmerized by and a little bit afraid of the balaclava-clad figure you see flailing, crawling, and sidling around in the shadows in front of you.