Training on Salt Spring Island
Here's this from Managing Artistic Director, Eric Rhys Miller...
"In late September I flew on a sea plane in wicked weather to lead a 2-day Suzuki/Viewpoints intensive for the students of the Gulf Island School for Performing Arts. This was the second year of this workshop, offering young artists a set of complementary approaches to performance. Thirty acting, dance, and music students dove headfirst into the work, culminating in a set of open improvisations with movement, text, and music. It was a thrilling and revitalizing experience! Looking forward to the next bumpy plane ride. Lucky me!"
AGM-apalooza & Obstructions!
Obstructions
at Progress Lab 1422 (map)
First event: October 27, 2011 @ 7pm, at AGM-Apalooza
March 31, 2012
May 19, 2012
June 9, 2012
More dates to be announced
October 27's event at Progress Lab 1422 is $5 cover with no advance sales, and will follow a joint AGM with The Only Animal, Boca, Rumble Productions, Neworld Theatre, and more. Doors at 6, AGM begins 7pm, Obstructions begins 9pm. Arrive early, limited seating.
Following three sold-out iterations of the Hive party series, Vancouver's Progress Lab network of indie theatre-makers comes together to test the theory that creativity feeds on limits.
Inspired in part by The Five Obstructions by Jørgen Leth and Lars Von Trier, the core artists of each participating company will submit, a few at a time and under a cold spotlight, to a list of obstructions delivered by a shadowy emcee. The companies will then be commanded to create their next production around those limitations. The obstructions for each company have been developed in secret by their peers - a custom-designed set of obstacles that will prompt each artist to adapt to a new approach to making theatre. Form, place, style, theme, design, period, story - Obstructions spills out the artist's bag of tricks and kicks them out of reach.
On October 27, the first three companies will receive their obstructions: Radix (artistic director Andrew Laurenson), Boca Del Lupo (artistic directors Sherry Yoon and Jay Dodge), and Felix Culpa (artistic directors David Bloom and Linda Quibell). They will return in the spring to perform their new works, and more obstructions will be delivered.
Welcome our 2012 Artist in Residence
Thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Murray is our 2012 artist in residence! Keith created video design for NiX and the amazing 'frosted' set design for Sugar at HIVE 3. He'll be working on three projects with us this year: Out On A Limb with Eric Rhys Miller, Death of Superman with Kendra Fanconi, and his new play Feather on the Breath of God...see our upcoming season announcement for more details!
Keith is right now in the middle of a 2 week writing retreat in Roberts Creek, BC. We're really appreciating his cooking and company.
Welcome Keith!
Fringe ONSITE: Get Tickets Now!
Now's the time to reserve your tickets for the ONSITE shows as part of the Vancouver Fringe BYOV.
The Courier gave some preview press, and more will follow.
Kendra has been down on Granville Island for three nights in a row, giving sage advice and words of wisdom, while trying not to step on too many director toes!
Looks like the fertile imaginations and diverse habitats of the ONSITE mentoring project are going to bubble with many species of theatrical life.
Enjoy the bounty!
SOS: The Reviews Are In!
Audiences are enjoying themselves, the weather is predicted to be fine, good news for our latest show.
See what some local reviewers are saying about Sea of Sand:
Peter Birnie in the Vancouver Sun
Jerry Wasserman in The Province
Jo Ledingham in the Vancouver Courier
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