Standing inside the new expansion of the Dalhousie Arts Centre, Lori Ward (senior director of development at Dalhousie University) is in a hard hat, describing the sorts of acts that’ll play at the school’s new, 300-seat Joseph Strug Concert Hall. The acoustics are some of the best in North America, Ward explains, since the building […]
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Review: Orlando
Sarah Ruhl is one of the best American playwrights working today, and Virginia Woolf is one of the best English writers of all time. Their forces combined make Orlando, a stage adaptation of Woolf’s fantastical 1928 novel, a masterful experiment. Director Matthew Thomas Walker, with the company of Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts fourth […]
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The EverySeeker Symposium debuts
OBEY Convention is more than just a weekend of seeing wicked, life-changing bands. For its ninth and most robust year, OBEY has prepared its very first music lecture series, the EverySeeker Symposium, running in tandem with the rest of the festival. Organized by former Halifax musician and current music theory student Dave Ewenson, who is […]
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The Seagull takes flight
Could there be a more fitting play than Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull to launch the graduating class of Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts? The show’s director, Tanja Jacobs, doesn’t think so. “This play explores what it is to be an artist and to want love and life in the arts. That’s very much what’s […]
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Encounters at the opera
Encounters is a collection of six short contemporary operas about what happens when two people meet by chance. This is the first opera staged by the newly formed Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University and it promises lighthearted and funny entertainment. The collection was first presented at the University of Toronto’s New Music […]