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Photos: Performing Arts and Technology festival comes to New West

The four-day festival was a celebration of creativity, culture, and community.
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The robots play their favourite instrument, the kazoo, during the electro dance party.

The Massey Theatre complex hosted its first-ever Performing Arts and Technology Festival, from Thursday, Nov. 14 to Sunday, Nov. 17.

The festival featured workshops, activities and live performances at the Massey Theatre and the Eighth & Eight Creative Spaces. 

The final day saw Kid Koala playing background music as participants built robot costumes to wear for an electro dance party, Battlezone Canada held a Hip Hop workshop teaching foundational moves, OURO Collective presented a short program from their fully produced work 7y98D, and some of the Lower Mainland’s best street dancers battled it out at the Battlezone Dance battle.

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Aria and Kennedy battle. 
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Ginger, in her second battle ever, wows the competition. 
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OURO Collective perform at the Massey Theatre.

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Participants build a robot costumes. 

 

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Josh Jodoin and 1-year-old Sidra. 
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Phoenix Ericksen gets ready to dance.
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Particiapants show off their coolest robot dance moves. 
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Maya teaches participants how to “break the stick” during the BattleZone Canada Hip Hop Workshop. 
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Darina battles it out at the Battlezone Canada Street Dance Battle.