Breathtaking dance, discerning theatre, hilarious comedy, globally-celebrated music and our Chutzpah! PLUS events highlight this year’s festival with world-class performances and workshops by international, Canadian and local artists from February 16 to March 13, 2017.
An eagerly anticipated highlight of Vancouver’s dance season is the Chutzpah! Festival’s Dance Series. This year’s performances again offer high calibre, challenging and gorgeous dance delivering innovative and spell-binding work including; the much anticipated return of Italy’s brilliant Spellbound Contemporary Ballet with their full-length Carmina Burana; Israel’s incomparable Yossi Berg & Oded Graf Dance Theatre excite audiences with their widely acclaimed and dynamic 4Men, Alice, Bach, and the Deer.
Chutzpah! Festival 2017 presents outstanding internationally-celebrated music, including leading world music pioneers. The rich global landscape of music presented this year showcases some of the world’s most exciting musical performers from Israel, Japan, Argentina, USA, and Canada.
Chutzpah!’s theatrical shows include a thought-provoking play Wrestling Jerusalem and high-speed improv Folk Lordz. Comedy highlights include Comedy Double Bill: Ali Hassan and Judy Gold. Canada’s Ali Hassan appears in his hilarious, heartfelt, one man show Muslim Interrupted. Judy Gold’s (USA) most recent TV appearances include guest-starring roles on Louie, Broad City, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Inside Amy Schumer and she has a recurring role on the upcoming new series on TBS Search Party. Performances at the Norman Rothstein Theatre, York Theatre, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Biltmore Cabaret
TICKETS
Single tickets for Chutzpah! are $23 to $50 (+ s/c & GST) and can be purchased online at chutzpahfestival.com, by phone at the Chutzpah! Box Office: 604-257-5145 or Tickets Tonight: 604-684-2787. Chutzi Packs are also available: see 4 different shows of your choice for only $94 (excluding Ali Hassan and Judy Gold, Shalom Hanoch, David Broza and Mira Awad, The Klezmatics). New this year is a special 5-Show Dance Pack for shows at the Norman Rothstein Theatre for only $115.
Tickets will also be available in-person starting January 30th at the on-site Chutzpah! Box Office at the Jewish Community Centre, 950 West 41st Avenue, just 2 blocks west of the Oakridge Skytrain Station
