My name is Alice Nelson and I’m a theatre artist coming to do a shadow puppetry workshop at HarbourKIDS. I make a living through acting, directing, playwriting, stilt-walking, puppetry, clown, mask making and creating plays with kids! Read more
I did my training at an amazing school called Dell’Arte Physical Theatre School. It’s kind of like ‘Hogwarts for actors’. I compare it to Hogwarts because it’s right in the middle of the redwood forests. The redwoods are incredible trees, averaging a height of 200 feet (61 meters)! It feels like the school is in the middle of a magical forest. While I was there, my program required me to create magic all day…. that is to say, use my imagination to create stories onstage with other artists. Through creating a world onstage, we were able to make the audience believe in the unbelievable. I like to think we were getting our wizard training.
Alice Nelson brings shadow puppetry to HarbourKIDS
What is winter in Canada?
For the final HATCH presentation, multidisciplinary Winterreise Collective is exploring Franz Schubert’s celebrated song cycle through the personal lens of the diverse Canadian experience. Part concert, part play, part dance and part memoir, Winterreise Projekt weaves the classic and the contemporary, the public and the private, into a distinctly Canadian tapestry of winter.
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A world-class festival presenting dance inspired by Asian ideas and expressions
In association with Harbourfront Centre, CanAsian Dance is bringing the CanAsian International Dance Festival to our 2013 NextSteps season. A combination of performances, matinees, films and workshops that reflect dance traditions from across Asia.
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Still Standing You wraps World Stage in a bromantic embrace
Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido took male bonding to a whole other level Tuesday night in their World Stage debut of Still Standing You. Using their bodies as instruments to shamelessly seek out what they mean to each other, no physical or emotional stone was left unturned. Still Standing You is unique, startling, hilarious and physically intense. So physically intense, actually, that Pieter and Guilherme can only perform the piece, at the most, two consecutive days in a row.
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SPOILER ALERT! Katie McMillan on why you should read this *after* seeing Still Standing You
Not if, but when you go to see Still Standing You, and then leave the theatre wide-eyed, muttering “what just happened,” you will be exhibiting a justified and completely understandable response to the work. Seriously. That reaction may actually be an enormous compliment to the creators of Still Standing You, as the artistic genre they exemplify seeks to un-write cognitive processes.
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9 Loons: Constructing Our Future
Walk down almost any street in Toronto and you’re bound to run into a construction site. Toronto is actually the number one city in the world right now in terms of condo development. Eventual Ashes’ latest piece, 9 Loons, looks at the art of condo buying and the types of dreams people have about real estate ownership. 9 Loons asks: With all …
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Still Standing You: Exploring the complexity of friendship
According to Wikipedia — that omnipresent font of all things vernacular — the term “bromance” was coined by the editor of a magazine centered on skateboard culture to name the latently heterosexual, though intensely romantic, relationships that often develop between straight men. The term has become de rigueur in the current pop-cultural moment: at its best, it’s a good-natured admission of the genuinely romantic feelings that develop in non-sexual circumstances (a 21st century rebranding of 1970s “male bonding”).
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Zeke Moores: Finding beauty in the everyday
Windsor-based visual artist Zeke Moores uses sculpture to explore the social and political economies of everyday objects and our complex relationship with them. As part of the Visual Arts Spring Exhibitions, Zeke joins seven artists whose works comment on consumerism, social mores and the dialogue between the functional, decorative and art object. Within the exhibition, entitled RE: POSITION, Zeke is displaying a collection …
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Learning Lessons Close to Home: Katie McMillan on She She Pop and Their Fathers’ Testament
“There must be something universal about it,” says the theatre artist to her physicist father about the story of King Lear. What follows is a staged exploration of this claim – a search for relevance in a story about aging, inheritance, and familial love that has survived for centuries. Now, don’t get me wrong; by “staged exploration” I am in no …
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She She Pop & Their Fathers: Tenderness, humour and anger
German theatre collective She She Pop premiered She She Pop & Their Fathers: Testament to a Toronto audience last night as a part of World Stage. Mirroring the story of King Lear and his daughters, She She Pop members take to the stage with their own aging fathers, shining a spotlight on the painful details of their own personal family …
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