CANADALAND Guide To Canada – a show that points to new live performance models
I did some math in my head as I counted the audience in roughly-full 700-seat Hot Docs cinema (still known in my head as...
A Buck and a Half*
It’s that time of year when Indigenous performers become extremely popular for a day or two. True, “National Aboriginal Day” has become an entire...
When Circus Meets Theatre: A Tale of Two Lovers
I have been having an affair… I’ve been cheating on theatre with the circus. I began training in aerial circus (a method of movement...
Long Form Math
Making dances with talking, and plays with moving does not actually feel like hybridization to me. It feels perfectly natural, even though I don't...
Old Stories in New Ways
We are two Canadian theatre artists working in Western Kenya in association with rural and urban community-based theatre, music, and dance performers. Some are...
Rage-ing With and Against The Machine
SEX. I realize now I prefer to write about sex. Maybe I can meander my way from technology to my preferred topic. Facebook friends chimed in on my wall with ideas. Many offered up suggestive descriptions of banal tasks, like “plugging in” USB keys, or “turning on” electricity. Techroticism, I’ll call it. Aside from the innuendo, people seem to believe that technology is mostly about sex anyway, that our interactions with it are laden with sexual gestures and motifs.
