November 21, 2017
Intelligent, articulate and gentle, actor Patrick Keating has been a mainstay of Vancouver’s independent theatre scene for years—not the kind of guy who leaps to mind when you hear the word “criminal.” You’d be hard […]
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Behind the Sound Famed percussionist Antonio Sánchez (BiRDMAN: LiVE) discusses his experience drumming and composing for film scores, the current state of jazz drumming, and more.
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PuSh’s curatorial team, industry delegates and visiting artists share provocations, inspirations and notes from the field. The morning focus is on the art and how performance is responding to the political moment. The afternoon focuses […]
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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. This panel asks how Indigenous women artists from different territorial and disciplinary backgrounds approach […]
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Convulsive, frenzied and downright thrilling, Nicola Gunn’s show is a cocktail of the physical and the cerebral, the athletic and the abstract. There’s a story she wants to tell, of an encounter she once had […]
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Lin Lee-Chen (The Eternal Tides) is a Taiwanese choreographer of international repute, four decades into her career. In this rare North American appearance, she discusses her practice and the influences of her homeland in her […]
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Versatile, vivacious and flamboyant, Dickie Beau is a drag artist extraordinaire, whose lip-synch playback performances have helped update the drag show tradition. A true innovator, he employs miming techniques and uses found sound to create […]
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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. Whether as therapy in hospitals, community-building in prisons, outreach in schools, or entertainment at […]
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