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Cancel Culture in Theatre: What is to be done?
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The Centre for Free Expression presents theatre artist and playwright Carmen Aguirre in conversation with playwright Marilo Nuñez. April 7 at 4 pm. Free. http://ryerson.zoom.us/j/91941276567
Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian, award-winning theatre artist and author or co-author of over twenty-five plays and has over eighty film, TV, and stage acting credits. Her recent talk commissioned by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, “Repair, Reassemble, Reunite” calls for discourse instead of purge in the theatre community.
by Steve Newton on March 11th, 2021 at 11:15 AM 1 of 2 2 of 2 Anyone who believes arts and culture have taken a hiatus during the pandemic needs to start paying attention to livestreamed events, wrote the
Georgia Straight s Charlie Smith in his rave review of Music on Main s
Graveyards and Gardens earlier this year.
Smith described the show s world premiere at Vancouver s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in January as mesmerizing and captivating , and now anyone who missed it will get a second chance to see what all the fuss is about.
Music on Main is presenting
Graveyards and Gardens: On Demand from March 18 to 31. The pay-per-view performances, broadcast in 4K high-definition video, feature original choreography and dance by Vancouver s Vanessa Goodman juxtaposed with a musical story created and voiced by Pulitzer Prize–winning musician Caroline Shaw.
Vancouver s PuSh Festival elects entirely new board at AGM theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Charlie Smith on February 24th, 2021 at 5:25 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4
Renowned Vancouver dance artist Joshua Beamish has thought a great deal about the differences between being a choreographer and a dancer.
In a phone interview with the
Straight, he describes choreography as “really intellectually demanding” because it involves understanding how to communicate with a dancer while learning how they work and what their body is capable of doing.
“So there’s a lot of investigation,” Beamish says. “It’s like scanning. I feel you’re constantly scanning through material, seeking things that are resonant or vital.”
He explains that dancers, on the other hand, “are kind of in an unknown state” as they set out to achieve the choreographer’s vision and decode certain requests.