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Heart as Arena @ The Cultch
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The fundamental need to connect, despite obstacles of time and distance, has become a central paradigm of human communication. Making these concepts flesh,Heart As Arena, a multimedia work for five performers, explores ideas of receptivity, transmission and the secret language of electricity that animates heart, mind and muscle.
Low-watt radio transmitters broadcast a fragile stream of love songs, snatches of static, and the deep silence of space. A constellation of radios hovers above the dancers and audience, creating a living array of sound. The transmissions create a physical soundscape that is constantly acted on and disrupted by the slipping frequencies and electrical fields created by the dancersʼ moving bodies. Bellini's Norma, the canonical opera of desire, love and loss, acts as the emotional centre of the piece, emerging and disappearing throughout the piece like a distant station heard on late night radio.
This choreography explores the heart as an arena of electrical and emotional force fields; the attraction and repulsion of bodies in motion; physically demanding expressions of need and want; the electrical interplay at the base of our emotions; the firing and silencing of the very neurons that create our experiences of falling in or out of love.
The work features performers Sarah Doucet (Toronto), Shay Kuebler (Vancouver), Amber Funk Barton (Vancouver), Masaharu Imazu (Montreal/Japan) and Dana Gingras (Vancouver/Montreal). Creative collaborators include sound artist Anna Friz (Toronto/Chicago), sound and lighting artist Mikko Hynninen (Finland), dramaturge Ruth Little (England).
Low-watt radio transmitters broadcast a fragile stream of love songs, snatches of static, and the deep silence of space. A constellation of radios hovers above the dancers and audience, creating a living array of sound. The transmissions create a physical soundscape that is constantly acted on and disrupted by the slipping frequencies and electrical fields created by the dancersʼ moving bodies. Bellini's Norma, the canonical opera of desire, love and loss, acts as the emotional centre of the piece, emerging and disappearing throughout the piece like a distant station heard on late night radio.
This choreography explores the heart as an arena of electrical and emotional force fields; the attraction and repulsion of bodies in motion; physically demanding expressions of need and want; the electrical interplay at the base of our emotions; the firing and silencing of the very neurons that create our experiences of falling in or out of love.
The work features performers Sarah Doucet (Toronto), Shay Kuebler (Vancouver), Amber Funk Barton (Vancouver), Masaharu Imazu (Montreal/Japan) and Dana Gingras (Vancouver/Montreal). Creative collaborators include sound artist Anna Friz (Toronto/Chicago), sound and lighting artist Mikko Hynninen (Finland), dramaturge Ruth Little (England).
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| http://www.thecultch.com/content/view/337/484/ WHEN OCT 4 - 8, 2011: 8PM WHERE Historic Theatre TICKET INFORMATION Single tix from $16 CATEGORIES Presentation Series Premiere Dance |
Wicked Shorts @ The Cultch
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After a sold-out run at the Fringe, Wicked Shorts now transforms the Vancity Culture Lab into a fully functioning “culture café” for these short, sweet and delectable plays. Matador Love is a wild romantic comedy about a blind date from hell. Rendez-Vouspoetically reveals the inner thoughts of a waiter as he serves on “Date Night”. You’ll Probably Come Back is a halting examination of restrained love and loss.Monsters in the Closet puts an absurd comic twist on secrets in the modern relationship. Enjoy a drink at your table while two versatile actors tread the stage in all these Wicked Shorts.
Wicked Shorts is produced by Alley Theatre , an up-and-coming, local, DIY theatre company. Their production ofTape, staged inside a room of the Waldorf Hotel, was sold-out at the Fringe, recently remounted and nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Production. Director Marisa Smith is also the winner of the 2010 Joanna Maratta Award for her artistic achievement at the Fringe Festival.
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WHERE
TICKET INFORMATION
CATEGORIES
Wicked Shorts is produced by Alley Theatre , an up-and-coming, local, DIY theatre company. Their production ofTape, staged inside a room of the Waldorf Hotel, was sold-out at the Fringe, recently remounted and nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Production. Director Marisa Smith is also the winner of the 2010 Joanna Maratta Award for her artistic achievement at the Fringe Festival.
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SEPT 21 – OCT 9, 2011
Sept 21-25,
Sept 27-Oct 2, Oct 4-9: 8PM
Sept 21-25,
Sept 27-Oct 2, Oct 4-9: 8PM
WHERE
Vancity Culture Lab
TICKET INFORMATION
Single tix from $16
CATEGORIES
Presentation Series
Theatre
Theatre
Fringe Festival: Wildwood Park
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A stunning colonial mansion sets the stage for this "wonderfully creepy Fringe treat" (CBC). By Pulitzer prize winner Doug Wright, a tense psychological thriller directed by Michael Fera. An agent walks you through a notorious property revealing its secrets.
4 Stars -CBC
4 Stars -"Maryth Gilroy and Jason Broadfoot keep the audience hooked." -Winnipeg Free Press
4 Stars -CBC
4 Stars -"Maryth Gilroy and Jason Broadfoot keep the audience hooked." -Winnipeg Free Press
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Fringe Festival: Grim And Fischer
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Death meets his match in Mrs. Fischer, a tenacious granny not ready to breathe her last. In what has been described as live-action Pixar, one woman's fight for survival takes fantastical flight in a showdown with Death himself!
Best of Fest, Calgary 2011
5 Stars - "Grim & Fischer is utter magic." -CBC
5 Stars - "A Fringe must-see event." -Calgary Herald
Best of Fest, Calgary 2011
5 Stars - "Grim & Fischer is utter magic." -CBC
5 Stars - "A Fringe must-see event." -Calgary Herald
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http://wonderheads.com/
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