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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SPOILER ALERT! Katie McMillan on why you should read this *after* seeing Still Standing You
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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Our Last Picture: A choreographic experiment
As our HATCH season continues, we welcome México/Costa Rica born and Montréal and Toronto based artist Andréa de Keijzer with her piece Our Last Picture. This group dance piece, which is an adaptation of Esthel Vogrig’s solo Mi Ultima Foto (My Last Photo), examines the moments that exist before and after a photograph, a performance and an event.
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She She Pop’s Testament: Not your typical take on The Bard
The World Stage performance She She Pop & Their Fathers: Testament, the third chapter in a Shakespearean triptych, which also included Othello, c’est qui and LEAR, is far from a standard adaption of the text. Cast members appear onstage with their real-life fathers to examine issues inspired by the original piece, but with a contemporary twist.
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All the World’s a Stadium: Katie McMillan on the performance of masculinity in A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football
I frigging love winning. It is quite plausible that I get this quality from my dad who, rather than taking it easy on his eight year-old daughter during nightly Cribbage games, would do the exact opposite; he would sing and dance a song that went something like, “I won, I won, I won, I won, I won/I beat the little …
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Behind the scenes: A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football
Game day! After a pre-show camera call for A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football, we had an opportunity to sit down with four of the dancers from Norway’s Jo Strømgren Kompani. The dancers, who have been part of over 200 performances, discussed how they got involved with the piece, the extent of their actual football-playing abilities and more.
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