Dress me up in your love

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Photo of Andrew McNee and James Long by Tim Matheson

Co-produced by and developed at PAZZ Performing Arts Festival, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater (Germany)

PAZZ Performing Arts Festival
April 22 & 23, 2012
www.pazzfestival.de

CHAPTER Arts Centre
May 1 & 2, 2012
www.chapter.org

Dress me up in your love is the latest piece in a series of biographical performances by Theatre Replacement. Taking garments and outfits of significance from around the world, the performers reveal stories behind the clothes through songs, movement, dance numbers and more. The piece is generous and open, comic and has live music from Vancouver composer and singer Veda Hille. Theatre Replacement's signature style of working with verbatim texts and biographical performance turns the form on its head, and connects the personal opinions and biases of the performers with the subject matter. The resulting performance is a mash up of personal stories gathered and re-told, from the banal and everyday, to the critical moments and turning points that shape our lives.

Created by Barbara Clayden, Itai Erdal, Veda Hille, Samantha Madely, Andrew McNee, Cindy Mochizuki, Anita Rochon, Donna Soares, Conor Wylie, James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto. With the support of the Powell Street Festival and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Touring funded by The Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council. 

"Dress me up in your love shows remarkable comfort between the performers, including [Veda] Hille, and that ease is infectious. They kid each other, push and shove, ad lib, reveal themselves with refreshing openness. And they're definitely onto something about clothes and how our memories are shaped around them."
—Vancouver Courier

"...a compelling swirl of nostalgia: unsentimental, but at times awfully sad — and also very funny."
—The Globe and Mail

"From your head down to your toes, let this show dress you up in its love of a good story."
—The Vancouver Sun

WORLD PREMIERE
April 19-23, 2011
The Cultch Historic Theatre
VANCOUVER


April 27-30, 2011
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
BURNABY

 

EUROPEAN TOUR
PAZZ Performing Arts Festival
April 22 & 23, 2012
Oldenburg, GERMANY


Chapter Arts Centre
May 1 &2, 2012
Cardiff, WALES

 

For booking info please contact Kris Nelson, Touring Producer.



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WeeTube

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Photo of Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long by Gunther Gamper

WeeTube 5400 at FREE FALL
March 26-28, 2012
www.theatrecentre.org

Part performance, part parlour game, WeeTube uses the publicly posted comments found under popular YouTube videos as performance text in an effort to highlight both the brilliant and the mundane found in the world's most populated discourse.

Behind one of the most influential media on earth, YouTube, lurks an immense community of people who comment upon its content, often anonymously. In this virtual world, the usual niceties of courtesy and amiability do not seem to apply. In the performance WeeTube, the world's most notorious YouTube videos are the backdrop for a durational performance hosted by James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto of Theatre Replacement. Using the publicly posted comments that follow these videos and placing them in familiar dramatic settings, they engage in a revealing and disturbing dialogue that will make you question our species while at the same time have you ROFL. 

“First baffling and then hilarious, each of these scenes offers dialogue revealing the intimate inanity of a world where people communicate through the ether in meaningless jabber. I have seen the future, and it is a LOL funny freak show.”
-Vancouver Sun

“It is amazing how people in the supposed anonymity of virtual space employ insult, racisms and worse. With WeeTube Theater Replacement expertly reveals an alternate world and how it’s language is formed.”
-Nachtkritk.de, Germany

For booking info please contact Kris Nelson, Touring Producer.

TOURING HISTORY
HIVE2, Magnetic North Theatre Festival
June 5 - 14, 2008
VANCOUVER

BC SCÉNE, SWARM
April 21, 2009
NAC Performer's Lounge
OTTAWA

Festival TransAmériques, MICROCLIMATS
May 22 & 23, 2009
Monument-National
MONTREAL

PAZZ Performing Arts Festival
October 22 - 25, 2009
Herman's Apartment
OLDENBURG, GERMANY

Fusebox Festival
April 30 & May 1, 2010
Thinkwell
AUSTIN, TEXAS

Noorderzon Festival
August 19 - 22, 2010
Ophelia Tent
GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS

Supernova Theatre Festival
May 26-29, 2011
Nepute Theatre STUDIO
HALIFAX

CURRENTLY TOURING
Undercurrents Festival
February 14-19, 2012
Great Canadian Theatre Company
OTTAWA

Free Fall Festival
March 26-28, 2012
Theatre Centre
TORONTO

 

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SHOPTALK

Co-produced by The Chop Theatre

Talks and exchanges with some of Canadian theatre's finest. Four times throughout the season.

With Crystal Pite of KIDD PIVOT

The third of our SHOPTALK series features choreographer and performer Crystal Pite, of KIDD PIVOT. This conversation will focus on Crystal's artistic practice and how she manages her company's extensive touring schedule. Please join us for this rare opportunity for a frank exchange with one of Canada's most celebrated (and busy) artists.

SHOPTALK III

Friday, April 6th, 5-7pm
Russian Hall
600 Campbell Ave
Admission by donation

 

Born and raised on the Canadian West Coast, choreographer and performer Crystal Pite is a former company member of Ballet British Columbia and William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt.
Crystal’s choreographic debut was in 1990, at Ballet British Columbia. Since then, she has created works for Nederlands Dans Theater I, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt, The National Ballet of Canada, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Resident Choreographer, 2001-2004), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, Alberta Ballet, Ballet Jorgen, and several independent dance artists; most recently Louise Lecavalier. Crystal is Associate Choreographer of Nederlands Dans Theater and Associate Dance Artist of National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
In 2002 she formed Kidd Pivot and continues to create and perform in her own work.  The company tours nationally and internationally, performing such highly demanded and critically acclaimed works as Dark Matters and Lost Action. Kidd Pivot's residency at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt has provided her the opportunity to work with her dancers and collaborators to create The You Show and The Tempest Replica, which premiered there in October 2011.
Crystal is the recipient of the Banff Centre’s Clifford E. Lee Award (1995), the Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award (2004), and the Isadora Award (2005). Her work has received four Dora Mavor Moore Awards (2009), and a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award (2006). She is the recipient of the 2008 Governor General of Canada’s Performing Arts Award, Mentorship Program. Most recently, she was awarded the 2011 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award.


The first of the speaker series was a talk with Nadia Ross, Artistic Director and Founder of STO Union on November 16th, 5-7pm at The Cultch Wine Bar. We are trying to find a time to reschedule our conversation with Norman Armour and Kris Nelson soon! Please stay tuned for information on our last talk of the series, coming this June.

 

 

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Obstructions

Does creativity feed on limits? Following three sold-out iterations of HIVE, Vancouver's Progress Lab network of indie theatre-makers comes together to test that theory.

Inspired in part by The Five Obstructions by Jorgen 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 27th, the first three companies received their obstructions: Radix, Boca Del Lupo and Felix Culpa. They will return in the spring to perform their results, and more obstructions will be delivered.

Dates to follow:
March 31, 2012
May 19, 2012
June 9, 2012

MORE DATES TBA

www.progresslab.ca

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