Interviewing a dancer makes you wish you could pick up a video camera. Lisa Phinney’s new piece, Analogy for Solid Bones, premieres this week, and her hands move through the air as the Halifax dancer and choreographer wrestles gracefully with her words. “Loons fly, but they’re divers. It’s why their bones are solid—usually birds’ bones […]
Virginia Insua
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Giving an angry inch
Hedwig, the most famous “internationally ignored” transsexual, is coming to Halifax. Actor, writer and director John Cameron Mitchell gave birth to Hedwig in New York’s famous drag club Squeezebox; since then she’s had her own cult musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and a namesake movie that was the sleeper hit of 2001 (nominated for […]