Oh The Smell Of Blood! Bob’s Salon @ UNIT/PITT
Dance, music, story, and booze meet as part of 'Vancouver, crawling, weeping, betting'
On February 28th, 2014, the last in a lofty series of evenings happened at UNIT/PITT Projects that combined improv dance, live music, storytelling, and matching wine. All wrapped around the book launch of ‘Vancouver, crawling, weeping, betting.’ Bob’s Salon part of ‘Vancouver, crawling, weeping, betting’ a UNIT/PITT co-presentation with battery opera performance Dance: Arash Khakpour, […]
Porno Death Cult Brings The Spirit To Vancouver
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg lights up the stage
Written by Shalon Webber-Heffernan Oh-My-God! Literally. Wow! Wow! Wow! to Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg’s one woman world premier of Porno Death Cult at the Firehall Arts Centre that played March 5-8, directed by Marcus Youssef. What do porno, death, and cults have in common? My conclusion: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. The performance, largely inspired by a walking […]
Flashes and Memories
An evening inside a Dark Room
Written by Elysse Cheadle All photos ©RoundhouseCC / MC James & Riz Herbosa I am riding towards the Roundhouse Centre on my bike the night of December 5th to see Dark Room: The realm of symbols, science and memories – the newest piece created by the Vancouver-based company Body Narratives Collective. I remove my gloves […]
Exploring The Expressive Challenges and Opportunities of Improvisational Dance
inside the lines | the lines inside @ EDAM Dance
Written by Mark Jacobs Photos provided by Chris Randle Peter Bingham, the Artistic Director of EDAM Dance, has been an early and forceful exponent of improvisational dance, and Contact Improvisation (CI), specifically; so it was, perhaps, no surprise that the six-day run of inside the lines | the lines inside would centre on improvisational work. […]
Gettin’ Cozy, Interactive, and Interpretive @ the VANDOC House Concert
We celebrate our first six months with a house concert full of great people, great vibes, dance, illustration, and music
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk VANDOCUMENT recently celebrated our 6 month anniversary! After producing 80+ posts, 15 videos, almost 2000 photos, nearly 4000 page views, and building a team of over 30 talented, dedicated contributors, we held an all-afternoon House Concert that extended into the evening. A fantastic gathering of people came to support VANDOC at […]
Of Collaborations and Cheese Plates
Institutional Cheese Plate offers up interdisciplinary collaborations from SFU’s MFA program
Written by Megan Stewart All images provided by the artists In downtown Vancouver, floating between the shiny hallways and polished studios of the SFU Woodwards building and the dustier, industrial spaces of Alexander Centre, twenty-some interdisciplinary artists are creating work within Simon Fraser University’s Master of Fine Arts program. As a two-year whirlwind of a […]
A Union of Disciplines and Minds: The Body Narratives Collective and Their Upcoming Production, Dark Room
Of collaboration and experimentation in the realm of dance, theatre, photography and science
Written by Claudia Spontaneous On a recent cloudy fall afternoon, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Julia Carr and Meghan Goodman of the Body Narratives Collective. One part of my agenda was to gather more information about their upcoming production, Dark Room, while the other was to explore the history of these two […]
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 […]
Two 40 Year Celebrations Combine At The Cultch
World premiere presentation of Bulletins from Immortality… freeing Emily Dickinson "a provocative new work by beloved dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis"
All quoted text from press releases, unless otherwise noted Photographer credit: Adrienne Surprenant Premiering October 23rd and running to the 26th, Margie Gillis‘ Bulletins from Immortality… freeing Emily Dickinson marks a combination of two historic anniversaries: “Performed in The Cultch’s Historic Theatre, Bulletins from Immortality… freeing Emily Dickinson not only celebrates Gillis’ acclaimed 40-year career, […]
Performing Process
Project CPR 4.0 explores practice in choreography
Words by Alicia McLean Photos and video by Ash Tanasiychuk “A process is a process is a process, it falls into itself,” explains Claire French, the organizer of Project CPR (Choreographic Practice and Research), which is a choreographic lab for movement research that is now in its fourth year. As French explains, choreographers need to […]