Added on September 23, 2016
Tara Flynn
Barbara Adler , Ben Wylie , Elysse Cheadle , Gordon Havelaar , Julie Hammond , Kyla Gardiner , Linnea Gwiazda , Lukas Engelhardt , Maria Tryti Vennerød , Pascal Reiners , Paula Viitanen , Robert Leveroos , SFU School for the Contemporary Arts , Xin Xuan Song
Studio T, SFU School of Contemporary Arts
Between Two Rocks is a haunting and sumptuous performance full of bold imagery that will stick to your bones. The performance runs from September 22-24th, 2016 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. A mountain of wool turns into a cloud. A stream of thread becomes a song and slowly leaks out a bucket. Morning […]
Added on June 4, 2016
Jen Kennedy
Aryo Khakpour , Chinatown , Emilie Leclerc , Fishmann , Marie Farsi
Video, Words and Photos by: Jen Kennedy I arrived at a secret location in Chinatown to see three linked plays. The stories confront the look of madness or survival in a world at its absolute end. The series was called Rivulets, but the plays had their own subtitles and were separate distinct vignettes, all set […]
Added on February 2, 2016
Drew Copeland
Frederic Wood Theatre , Greek , Keltie Forsyth , play , tragedy , UBC
Review and interview by Drew Copeland On its surface, Eurydice is catchy and engaging, verging on farcical; pausing for deeper consideration, more significant aspects arise from the tragic foundations. The play is both immediately entertaining and enjoyable like Count Chocula, but also offers some gristle upon which to chew in quiet reflection. This popular Greek […]
Added on October 29, 2015
Justin Ramsey
Ashley Aron , Barbara Adler , Czech Republic , Klasika , Kyla Gardiner , Megan Stewart , MFA project , SFU Woodwards , tramping , Vancouver , vandr
Words by Justin Ramsey Photos by Paula Viitanen Long before his rise to prominence as one of the leading thinkers of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse was a something of a young aesthete. His doctoral dissertation examined the Künstlerroman, a literary genre that situates the artist in a struggle against her prosaic, everyday milieu. Arguing […]
Added on October 27, 2015
Special Contributor
Ashley Aron , Barbara Adler , costume , Czech Republic , Klasika , Peter Dickinson , Rodeo Queens , SFU
Words by Peter Dickinson, Ashley Aron, Barbara Adler In the summer of 2015 I went to the Czech Republic to learn about the unique sub-culture of Czech tramping. I’ve told a lot of stories about my attempts to adapt elements of Czech tramping to a Canadian context; many of these efforts have been detailed […]
Added on October 22, 2015
Megan Stewart
Barbara Adler , cowboy boots , East Van , Field Camp , Klasika , Megan Stewart , vandr
Dear cowboy boots, our adventures begin here. This fall there’s so much more to look forward to besides trudging through leaves and racing to class. We’re going to be in a musical together – Klasika, by my friend and MFA colleague Barbara Adler. There will be musical numbers, bedazzled denim, maybe even some sheep. Get your hopes up.
Added on October 16, 2015
Corie Waugh
Anne Riley , Every Little Bit Hurts , Lindsay Ljungkull , Live Biennale , Our Missing Body , performance art , social practice , Western Fr , workshop , Zoe Kreye
Start to finish, an Immersive Workshop facilitated by Zoe Kreye and final performance at Western Front
Photography by Corie Waugh, description taken from the FACEBOOK page “In partnership with LIVE 2015 and the Western Front, artist Zoe Kreye facilitates an immersive workshop where participants develop embodied scores with an installation of ceramic sculptures. The workshop in its entirety is conceived of as a collectively developed performance ritual. Each session begins with a […]
Added on October 2, 2015
Dillon Ramsey
art environments , collaboration , devised theatre , folk , installation , Megan Stewart , SFU Woodwards , theatre
An accumulation and performance built by unlikely architects, created and directed by Megan Stewart
written by Dillon Ramsey photos by Paula Viitanen & Ash Tanasiychuk Megan Stewart has always had an acute fascination with folk art, and her performances often take cues from this movement, possessing a vibrant, handcrafted aesthetic that is as fabulous as it is fantastic, in the original senses of those words – that is to […]
Added on September 21, 2015
Jon Vincent
carousel theatre , chris stache , comedy , fringe festival , Granville Island , improv , jon vincent photography , sketch , travis bernhardt , vancouver improv , vancouver music , vandocument , wintermitts , wooden horsemen
Sept 10-20 @ Carousel Theatre, Vancouver Fringe Festival
Words and Photos by Jon Vincent The event was held at the Carousel Theatre in Granville Island. Fronted by Chris Stache and Travis Bernhardt. The show ran from Sept 10-20th, with a different theme every performance, from straight up improv to improvised church service. On a regular night, the duo perform the entire time, but […]
Added on September 7, 2015
Dillon Ramsey
art environments , collaboration , devised theatre , environments , folk , Goldcorp Centre for the Arts , Megan Stewart , outsider , repurposed material , SFU Woodwards , Space
8pm September 10-12, SFU Woodwards at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Dillon Ramsey words Paula Viitanen photos Anyone who has had the privilege of experiencing Megan Stewart’s theatre & projects will no doubt remember the mesmeric environments that define each performance: wondrous and whimsical, her sets seem to enclose the audience in dreamworlds made of mixed and repurposed materials, whose visual and spatial transformations effect an […]