The Vancouver International Dance Festival is an annual, month-long contemporary dance

Contemporary dance

Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

 festival held in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. The festival, produced by Kokoro Dance Theatre Society, began in 1998 as a Butoh Festival. The following year it became the Vancouver International Dance Festival and expanded to include a greater range of styles of contemporary dance from local, national and international artists.