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. Dress me up in your love is proud to have the Powell Street Festival as a community partner.

"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 2012
Oldenburg, GERMANY

Chapter Arts Centre
May 2012
Cardiff, Wales

For booking info please contact Kris Nelson, Touring Producer.

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 2012
Great Canadian Theatre Company
OTTAWA

Free Fall Festival
March 2012
Theatre Centre
TORONTO

SHOPTALK II

Sunday, February 5th, 5-7pm
The Skinny, Russian Hall
600 Campbell Ave
Admission by donation



Norman Armour’s professional practice includes being a curator, producer, director, actor and interdisciplinary artist. Norman has collaborated on over 120 works for the stage and other media. He co-founded the PuSh Festival (with Katrina Dunn) and became its executive director in 2005. In a spirit of innovation and dialogue, the Festival envisions its leadership role as a catalyst and animator: commissions, creative residencies, co-productions and the local adaptations of critically acclaimed works from the international stage. With our partners and colleagues, we exchange curatorial expertise and best practices, while building capacity, fostering audience development, and encouraging new economies of scale.
www.pushfestival.ca

Kris Nelson is a Montréal-based tour producer, manager and programmer, involved with innovative artists and organizations across Canada. Director of the agency, Antonym, he represents three of Canada's leading touring entities: Public Recordings (Toronto), Theatre Replacement (Vancouver) and 2boys.tv (Montréal). Since 2008 Kris has developed projects and tours in France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, USA, the UK and across Canada and co-produced independent artist platforms SPARK (Montréal with Studio 303) and PushOFF (Vancouver with New Works).
www.antonyminc.ca

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.

www.antonyminc.caFebruary 1, 2012
10am-3pm

February 2 & 3, 2012
2-5pm

Presenting artists include 605 Collective, Animals of Distinction, Radix Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Neworld Theatre, LINK Dance, the plastic orchid factory, Cat Main and Jamie Nesbitt, Ziyian Kwan, Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, The Chop, Mark Leiren-Young, Pegah Tabassinejad, The Contingency Plan, SNAFU Dance Theatre, Les Productions Figlio and Joshua Beamish. PushOFF is curated by Joyce Rosario and Kris Nelson.

Visit www.antonyminc.ca/pushoff for the final programming. Contact Kris Nelson, kris@antonyminc.com or Joyce Rosario, joyce@newworks.ca, for more information.
 

ONE DAY WORKSHOP
January 25, 2012 10am-2pm $25

THREE DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
January 26-28, 2-12 10am-5pm $125

Renegade Productions, 125 West 2nd Ave

Admission fo both the one day and three day workshops are by application only. Please submit a current resume and 250-word letter of intent to Associate Curator Dani Fecko at dfecko@rumble.org.

These workshops are part of Rumble Production's ATTACKS LAB and are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts Visiting Foreign Artists Program.

"I begin all workshops the same way I begin rehearsing a new project — as a conversation about space. I use Viewpoints as a point of departure. That might scare a few people, but I can assure you that my take on Viewpoints has come from years of practice and has refined itself into a specific vocabulary of spatial and termporal parameters. We'll expland from there to engage text, object, choreography and the potential of algorithms to create performance structures — how thinking about technology can be part of a creative practice."
                                                                                                                                                    -Phil Soltanoff

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