Posted March 11th, 2010 by Maryze Zeidler · Vancouver
Seven people are preparing to jump off the south side of the Vancouver Public Library. About 300 people have begun to gather, watching in anticipation. There are no paramedics on site, no safety nets have been deployed. Tension mounts. Children fidget and start to cry...
Posted March 10th, 2010 by Naomi Steinberg · Vancouver
Odysseus Chaoticus indeed. This piece is visually compelling, innovative, surprising, intimate, vulnerable, riotous, bawdy, eloquent and well executed to boot! A liberal dose of nourishing comedy for us heroes of the day-to-day.
Posted March 9th, 2010 by Kirstie McCallum · Vancouver
The Chutzpah! Festival coninues: on March 8th Sidra Bell Dance and Gallim Dance of New York presented a double-bill performance. Though vastly different in style, neither Sidra's Bell's “Anthology” nor Gallim Dance's “I Can See Myself in Your Pupil” overtly...
Posted March 8th, 2010 by Allyson McGrane · Vancouver
Felix Culpa has done an admirable job with a challenging script. Playwright Tom Cone's latest opus, Donald and Lenore, is a surreal journey with two characters going nowhere in a made-up paradise of sorts. Set in a Polynesian-inspired Tiki Room underneath an unnamed...
Posted March 5th, 2010 by Kirstie McCallum · Vancouver
There are the words and the melodies I write, and there are the fusions that I create between ethnic groups, between currents and between people, and in the encounter between them everything is open ~ Idan Raichel
Posted March 3rd, 2010 by Jill Goldberg · Vancouver
Strange to say, but the more dance I see, the more I like dance that focuses less on performance and more on transcendence. I suppose I wouldn’t like to see, for example, a Shamanistic ritual onstage at the Playhouse Theatre, where I’d paid a substantial sum for my ticket unless it...
Posted February 28th, 2010 by Megan Stewart and Kirstie McCallum · Vancouver
Megan: Is Delusion a piece of art you can say to like or dislike? I thought it was more living it than liking it. Maybe that's because I didn't like it very much. I needed more narrative and character to hang on to here.
Posted February 28th, 2010 by Justin Haigh · Toronto
The Magnetic Fields are one of those rare bands don’t neatly fall into a clearly defined category or genre, nor have they been adopted and defended by any single generation or demographic.