Hailey McCloskey

“After all, we’re Chinese”

“After all, we’re Chinese”

Made in China - mystical humility: a story of home and history

Made in China, performed at the Firehall Arts Centre February 18th-21st, begins with introductions and house lights. The relationship is informal, and puts me at ease. To learn about performers in this way feels natural rather than voyeuristic, which is how I often feel when researching artists’ backgrounds before I watch them perform. Sammy Chien, […]

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SHIFT 1-Act Festival

SHIFT 1-Act Festival

Five diverse courses

Written by Hailey McCloskey Photos by Travers Jeffers, Point Blank Photography The SHIFT 1-Act Festival was one full meal deal night of theatre, and I my appetite was set for one course. However, here I find myself digesting what they describe as “an uncommon collection of works assembled by a jury of Vancouver theatre innovators.” […]

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Annie Briard’s Cyber Claymation Doll in “The Woods”

Annie Briard’s Cyber Claymation Doll in “The Woods”

An experiment in agency, defiance and creativity

Written by Hailey McCloskey Photographs provided by Annie Briard I am a foreigner in the world of computer programming. The little I know resides in the realm of rudimentary word processing with an offshoot in social media. This is precisely what made me want to see Annie Briard‘s show. I was also drawn in by […]

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Ghosts of Emily Dickinson

Ghosts of Emily Dickinson

A collaborative review of Bulletins From Immortality

Written by Hailey McCloskey & Shalon W-H VANDOCUMENT’s Hailey and Shalon checked out the sold out world premiere of Bulletins From Immortality at The Cultch, a collaboration with Margie Gillis, American acting icon Elizabeth Parrish, and developed with the Stella Adler Studio in New York City. The show was created to celebrate the revolutionary poetic […]

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Powell Street Festival

Powell Street Festival

The largest Japanese Canadian festival in the country celebrates 37 years through a variety of food, dance, performance, and ceremony

Written by Hailey McCloskey Tomomi Morimoto dances with ghost stories of Japanese lore. Performing at the Firehall Arts Centre, she begins with her back facing the audience. Some of the audience is privy to the sight of a mirrored mask she holds still by the clasp of her jaw. As she moves in fractions, we […]

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Leaky Heaven’s der Wink @ Russian Hall

Leaky Heaven’s der Wink @ Russian Hall

Forging spatial architecture and negotiating its psyche

Words by Hailey McCloskey Water. No wait, trees. Actually, it’s light shining through water on the ground and trees are on the walls. I sit as an island in this multilayered sea of light: I don’t have the comfort of anonymity that being an audience member often provides. This is thrilling, not only for the […]