Choose Your Own Adventure
Isabelle Kirouac’s Together ( ) Apart
Written by Justin Ramsey Photos provided by Isabelle Kirouac “Where are you coming from today?” “What is the purpose of your visit?” “How long are you planning to stay?” I’ve been groomed to handle myself with quiet, agreeable compliance at border crossings, and for the first minutes, Isabelle Kirouac’s performance and installation piece Together ( […]
Makeshift Cowboy Meets Improvised Beach
Klasika goes on an urban vandr
Written by Barbara Adler Brit Bachmann photos Brendan Yandt soundscape It feels like it happened a long time ago. A group of friends met in my office at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, where I am currently a graduate student. We listened to field recordings I made last summer in the Czech Republic as […]
Words Into Actions
Five performances at the Firehall Spring Arts Festival
Written by Dillon Ramsey Every year, the BC Buds Spring Arts Festival at the Firehall Arts Centre showcases some of Vancouver’s best emerging and established talent in the fine and performing arts. For an entire weekend, dozens of acts happen concurrently and consecutively each day—most are between ten minutes and half an hour in length—giving audiences an […]
Scratch Brings Softness to Vancouver Theatre
An intimate interview with Caitlin McCarthy and Stephanie Izsak
Interview + Photos by Brit Bachmann Three days before opening night, Vandocument’s Brit Bachmann met with Caitlin McCarthy and Stephanie Izsaks, friends offstage and onstage in Theatre Plexus’ latest project Scratch. The play is a dark humour that explores the evolution of relationships that occur around dying and death, considered a largely autobiographical work by […]
What is the difference between a boat and a ship
A Peaceful Sea review
Words by Kaylin Metchie Photos by Angela Ferreria What is to be done when we become slaves to our egos? What do we become when the desire to be the best is so strong that it overrides our senses of duty to our nation, to our families? These seem to be some of questions that […]
Child-like wonder on a directionless path
Caws and Effect review
Words by Kaylin Metchie Photo by Mind of a Snail We in the theatre community often talk about the slow death of our art. How audience sizes are dwindling, being chipped away by the more easily accessible art media like TV/movies/internet streaming. Often the faces in the seats of one production are eerily familiar to […]
You Have Forgotten More Than You Remember
Mr. Snortoose and the Machine-Children’s Machine review
Words by Kaylin Metchie Photos by Dan Borzillo An open, empty space filled with soulless sound. The ebb and flow of tones wash over your ears. You feel like you’re here, in the present, but at the same time lost in a different plane, a different dimension. Expectation is invoked. Desire builds, but will it […]
Cramped Quarters, Energetic Investigation, and Six Hundred Red Notebooks
MascallDance explores modern living in quirky The Three Cornered Hat
Photography by Alisha Weng Text from press release by MascallDance A profoundly powerful study of movement, space and human interaction, MascallDance’s The Three Cornered Hat features the diverse talents of contemporary dancers Lara Barclay, Amber Funk Barton, Dario Dinuzzi, Billy Marchenski, Darcy McMurray, and Chris Wright. A gutsy and energetic investigation of the spaces in-between, […]
8minuteswith: Jamie Taylor and Sarah Faye Bernstein of The Jamie & Sarah Experience Project
8minuteswith – podcast series Hosted by Angela Ferreira Introduction by Elliot Vaughan A place to historicize conversation, with Vancouver artists, about their artistic practice. Interview 1 – March 14, 2015 Jamie Taylor and Sarah Faye Bernstein of The Jamie & Sarah Experience Project Angela Ferreira asks Jamie & Sarah questions about how they met, how […]
Who do they think I am… Jim Pattison?
Bah! Humbug! is A Christmas Carol with sass
Written by Brit Bachmann + photos by Alisha Weng Bah! Humbug! is a twist on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, drawing parallels between the squalor of Victorian London and Vancouver’s modern-day Downtown Eastside. This is the 5th annual year of Bah! Humbug!, with proceeds supporting Heart of the City Festival. Every year the play is […]