November 09, 2018
PRESENTED WITH VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY Join us for the Vancouver launch of two new publications contributing to the discourse and scholarship of curatorial practice in the performing arts: Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays, and […]
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PRESENTED WITH OR GALLERY Ideas Series events are designed for all audience members who seek a deeper engagement with artists and the work they create. Ideas Series events are open to the public. An afternoon […]
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Wildly eccentric and marked by an infectious sense of play, this is a deconstructive take on piano pedagogy, manufacturing ethics, and the relationship between labour and sound. That’s right, this is not your average music […]
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It’s a night at the movies like no other. This is a very special event with Antonio Sánchez, one of the world’s greatest living drummers, accompanying the Oscar-winning film Birdman live. It’s peak virtuosity: an […]
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Bombast! Apocalypse! Clickbait! Live Performance in the Endless End Days In a time when caustic triumphalism and endless cataclysm dominate our consciousness—and make very effective clickbait— Marcus Youssef’s keynote considers: collaboration and the productive value […]
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Gender-fluid rebel Silvia Calderoni does a powerhouse star turn in this show by Italian theatre company Motus. The performer’s own life story is crossbred with fiction, producing a work of genre blending and gender bending. […]
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In this riveting display, Antony Hamilton and Alisdair Macindoe share the stage with 64 robotic percussion instruments. The gadgets chime, tap, click and shuffle while the humans move and speak in response. As they lock […]
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Critical Ideas brings together artists, critics, scholars and audiences to discuss formal, social and ideological issues affecting performance practice and reception. Algorithmic and design-driven theatre; dances with machines; sound installations that foreground analog or digital […]
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