As Eartheater, New York multi-instrumentalist Alexandra Drewchin creates lavish experimental songs rich with influences, sounds and references. Her music can be endlessly—rewardingly—analyzed: Songs match beautiful, delicate tones with shrieks, electronic muttering, mysterious bubbling. Being undefinable has defined Eartheater’s glorious output, and IRISIRI, her 2018 album, is a study in the complexities of the human voice, […]
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Lydia Zimmer, eccentric one
Lydia Zimmer, SONDERLING as part of Kinetic Dance’s Open Studio February 23 and 24, 8pm DANSpace, 1531 Grafton Street, $10/$8 When does the methodical and organized become a form of derangement? How do our actions accumulate over a lifetime? These are the ideas dancer Lydia Zimmer hopes to explore with audiences during her performance of […]
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Kinetic Studio’s open series
Open Studio Series March 18-19, 8pm DANSpace-on-Grafton Pre-Show: Lucy M. May 7pm Performances by Rhonda Baker (Halifax) Sarah Wendt (Montréal/Charlottetown) Ellen Furey (Montréal) Susan Wolf (Halifax/Toronto) Lucy M. May (Montréal) Kinetic Studio is dancing the night away with the final installation of its Open Studio series. Taking place around the city this month and this […]
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What happens at the laboratory for dance experiments
“I went through this creative period where i was also songwriting, it came out of nowhere,” says Megan Matheson Hamilton, the flamenco dancer known as La Azulita. “We did it with the flamenco group, but I could picture it with a beat behind it and an MC rapping over it, giving insight to the Spanish […]
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UNITY Charity’s breakdance launch at the Library tonight
Tonight at the Halifax Central Library (6pm, free), UNITY Charity will announce its new partners in bringing Halifax youth weekly breakdancing and beatboxing sessions, with the Charity’s founder Michael Prosserman aka “Bboy Piecez.” The national community organization has made its way to our city via Branden “Haste” Taylor and Matthew “Testament” Jones, leaders of the breakdancing sessions […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 10
So ho, by so ★★★★ This play took me by surprise. It’s a rich, layered theatre experience that delivers an emotional punch in only 15 minutes. So ho, by so takes the Jacobean comedy The Birth of Merlin as its starting point, but viewers don’t need to be familiar with either Arthurian legend or 17th […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 9
Broadway the 13th ★★★½ This show is a high-energy showcase that strings together a series of favourite hits from stage musicals with a slight but cute plot. Four young actors (played by Lena Andriani, Becca Guilderson, Marietta Laan and Taylor Long) venture to a cabin in the woods to write a musical, only to find […]
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Behold! Atlantic Fringe Festival’s 2014 program
Get your scrolling finger ready, the list is a doozy! Advance tickets are now available online at atlanticfringe.ca. All tickets are $10 or less. Catch a sampler show on August 28 at Neptune Studio Theatre, one minute from about every show. Whirlwind! The 24th Atlantic Fringe program is: The Adversary by Andrew Bailey. Drama • […]
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More Yoga Opportunities
This may be of special interest to those mourning the passing of the Yoga Loft at the end of July. All skill levels can enjoy Kundalini Yoga at the following times and locations: Mon/Thurs 6-7:30pm at EFT Atlantic, 5663 Cornwallis, Suite 104, Wednesday 5:30-7pm at DANSpace, 1531 Grafton, 3rd floor and Saturday 9:30-11am at GPI […]