Performing Arts

Boy standing facing the woods

World-renowned illusionist Scott Silven brings preview of The Lost Things to Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity April 16 & 17

World-renowned illusionist Scott Silven brings preview of The Lost Things to Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity April 16 & 17

2022 Banff Playwrights Lab Participants

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Banff Playwrights Lab

Over the past 50 years, more than 800 plays have been written, created, and workshopped at Banff Centre.

Opera in the21sst Century performance 2022

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Announces Collaboration with the National Arts Centre in Ottawa for Opera in the 21st Century Program

Banff Centre, in collaboration with the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, is excited to announce the 2023 Opera in the 21st Century multi-disciplinary program

Banff Centre Announces Daina Ashbee, Artist, Performer, and Choreographer as Recipient of the Clifford E. Lee Award.

Banff Centre Announces Artist, Performer, and Choreographer, Daina Ashbee as Recipient of the 2022 Clifford E. Lee Award.

Banff Centre Announces Artist, Performer, and Choreographer, Daina Ashbee as Recipient of the 2022 Clifford E. Lee Award.

Rejuvinated Theatre for the Future

Welcome to the Jenny Belzberg Theatre!

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity announces the completion of its Theatre Revitalization Project and the official renaming of the venue as the Jenny Belzberg

headshots of Karen Slack and Ian Cusson

New Opera Faculty and Redesigned Program for 2020-21

Banff Centre will build upon its work in recent years changing conversations about opera with a redesigned program and two new co-directors

Street Dancer Crazy Smooth at bottom of staircase dancing

Crazy Smooth awarded Banff Centre Choreography Award

Ottawa and Montreal-based choreographer Crazy Smooth has been enthusiastically selected by a panel of jurors to receive Banff Centre’s 2020 Clifford E. Lee Chor

Opera Programs

Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) teams up with Banff Centre for its first ever national tour of LA BOHÈME!

AtG celebrates its landmark 10th anniversary season by uprooting opera from the opera house and staging it at bars across Canada— ending with the first staged o

Music at The Banff Centre

Three finalists selected at the Banff International String Quartet Competition

Three quartets from around the world are vying for the biggest prize in Chamber Music. The finals of the competition take place on Sunday, September 1st at 2:00

Summer Music at Banff Centre

Back to the Future—Breaking down walls at EQ: Evolution of the String Quartet

Tradition and exploration merge in a program exploring a well-loved genre that needn’t be categorized chronologically

Banff Centre Presents: Kopernikus

Follow Agni as she makes her way between this world and the next in Canadian composer Claude Vivier's opera "Kopernikus."

From Studio to Centre Stage: Ballet BC's 'Romeo and Juliet'

Banff Centre’s performing arts residency program helps Ballet BC create a new dance interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of star-crossed lovers.

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