VIEW THE ENTIRE 2011/2012 SEASON PROGRAM (PDF)
THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE)
COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD (MONTREAL)
SEPT 13 – 17 2011
DANCE/THEATRE
First performed in Vancouver as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics, THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE) is an erotic, avant-garde, humorous and deeply human work.
WORLD FAIR
L’A – RACHID OURAMDANE (PARIS)
OCT 5 – 8 2011
DANCE/THEATRE
This ‘aesthetics of politics’ literally transforms the way we see ourselves, providing us with the image of the stable, unchanging body.
NEWYORKLAND
TEMPORARY DISTORTION (NEW YORK)
NOV 9 -12 2011
THEATRE/FILM
Newyorkland is the latest work by the New York based theatre company Temporary Distortion, who, since 2002 have developed their own unique brand of contemporary performance that bridges the gap between theatre and cinema.
ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA
LAURIE ANDERSON (NEW YORK)
JAN 11 – 14 2012
MUSIC/THEATRE
Anderson has mastered the realms of avant-garde art, literature, film, experimental music, and even technology, inventing instruments such as tape-bow violins and voice filters.
ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE BY MARTIN CRIMP directed by Mark LawesTHEATRE JUNCTION (CALGARY)
FEB 15 – 25 2012
THEATRE
In an exploration of identity, a company of anonymous performers attempt to conceive the life of an absent central character known only as “Anne, Anna, Anushka …” – is she a terrorist, a physicist, an artist, a porn star, or a luxury sports car?
LUCY LOST HER HEART directed by Mark Lawes created with Theatre Junction’s Company of Artists
THEATRE JUNCTION (CALGARY)
MAR 14 – 17 2012
MUSIC/THEATRE/DANCE
The town of Lucy has strangely disappeared. Its inhabitants retreated into the tunnels of the abandoned mine and now they are stuck, suspended in time, caught like flies in honey.
PERFORMS TOM WAITS
L’ORCHESTRE D’HOMMES-ORCHESTRES (QUEBEC CITY)
MAR 30 – APR 1 2012
MUSIC/THEATRE
This raucous musical evoked standing ovations from sold out crowds and left audiences exhilarated. For all those who missed it the first time around, you will once again have the chance to experience this unique vision of ‘the world of Waits’.
WE’RE GONNA DIE
YOUNG JEAN LEE (NEW YORK)
MAY 2 – 5 2012
MUSIC/THEATRE
Described as a sort of existential cabaret, part pop concert and part autobiographical lament, Lee tells stories and sings songs about our shared human weakness, sadness, loss, ageing and the public masks we wear to hide it all.
