“I feel my character was raised on another planet, and the only connection to Earth was through cable TV and the internet,” says Vancouver’s Out Innerspace co-artistic director David Raymond. He’s speaking about his Astro Boy/Leon: The Professional/pop culture amalgam character from the hyper-realistic Me So You So Me, a duet between Raymond and fellow […]
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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 […]
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Live Art Dance’s 2014-2015 season announced
Here’s your year of goosebump-raising contemporary dance planned, Live Art Dance’s 2014-2015 season, season number 32, has been announced. Here it is at a glance: Peter Trosztmer’s (Montréal) Eesti: Myths and Machines is a solo performance with a moving sound sculpture. Sept 25-27, 2014 8pm at the Sir James Dunn Theatre. He says: “I’m exploring […]
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Celebrating 10 years with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival
It’s been a decade since Nina Scott-Stoddart and Tara Scott first came up with the idea to create an annual workshop for aspiring young opera singers. Since then, Halifax audiences have been entertained by 17 fully-staged operas. This year, more than 80 performers from Canada and the U.S. are taking part in three main stage […]
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Into The Woods
Alexis Cormier is adorned with jewels, a tiny row of diamonds under her right eye. It’s pouring rain outside—by all accounts a lazy Sunday afternoon—but inside Halifax Dance, The Woods came to throw down. Speaking before the weekly rehearsal that eats up four hours every Sunday, Cormier is lively, eager to share her encyclopedic knowledge […]
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Wade into Open Waters
“It’s good way to start the year,” says the Upstream Music Association’s artistic director Paul Cram of the annual improvisation and experimental music festival that has had its fair share of hiccups throughout the years. Originally started in the ’90s, the Open Waters Festival ran for three years before it stalled and was restarted again […]
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A strong finish with The Country Wife
The DalTheatre end-of-year show is traditionally a sumptuous showcase of costumes, sets and actors, and this year’s production of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife is no exception. The costumes are lavish and lovely. The set is simple, effective and shows a great attention to detail. The actors do an amazing job with Wycherley’s dense, innuendo-filled […]
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DalTheatre: The Comedy of Errors
Errors is a play you don’t want to miss. This is Shakespeare that will tickle your funny bone. It’s full-out, madcap fun somehow reminiscent of Saturday morning cartoons—and I mean that as high praise. The central characters are two sets of twins separated at birth, and the actors who play them are remarkable in their […]
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The rise of fall arts: performing arts
THEATRE A Beautiful View October 13-31 at Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, $15-$35, 429-7070, neptunetheatre.com Love without labels. That’s what actor-writer-producer Jackie Torrens feels the two women in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View have spent 20 years working towards. “As humans, there seems to be a need for us to define something, to label it,” […]
