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“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
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Diana Kolpak is co-creator and performer in The Antidote, premiering at the Toronto Festival of Clowns June 3rd & 4th.
Show and reservation information can be found here.
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“John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change.”
Robert Rauschenberg
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Estabragh Mousavi Fard, Iran, b. 1984
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Every year, Ross Manson, Artistic Director of Volcano Theatre, brings together a group of nationally and internationally-acclaimed artists to teach at the Volcano Conservatory.
Explore the Alternative: The Volcano Conservatory seeks to provide professional theatre and dance artists with the tools to reinvent performance. For emerging and experienced actors, dancers, directors and theatre-makers.
When: July 22 – 31, 2011 in Toronto
Volcano: “The explosive company from Canada” – The Independent (UK)
For more information click here.
Courses include (but not limited to):
Physicalizing Thought with Daniel Brooks
Movement with Peggy Baker
Fitzmaurice Voicework with Noah Drew
Something From Nothing with Quinn Bauriedel from Pig Iron Theatre
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“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
- Albert Einstein.
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Kate Werneburg and Samantha Hayes, co-artistic directors of Winterbird Arts, invite you to The Starling Art Party.
There will be music, food, a cash bar, and a communal creative activity. The activity will be a surprise, but they promise it won’t be hard and that it will be a ton of fun. Meet fellow female artists from other practices and disciplines and expand your creative circle. RSVP to winterbirdarts(at)gmail(dot)com so they know how many surprises to make.
What: The Starling Art Party presented by Winterbird as part of the Festival of Ideas and Creation
Who: Emerging female artists of all disciplines
Where: Canadian Stage’s Berkeley St. Theatre, Rehearsal Room
When: Tuesday, May 10, 6:30-8pm
How much: FREE!
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He kissed the girl
in the ballerina skirt.
It was a long one –
like the kiss –
drenching her sneakers
in tulle.
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One Block examines how each of us is shaped by our physical environments, by the people who have surrounded us, and by the histories that swell under our feet. Unspun Theatre imagines an investigative romp that explores a convergence of ideas about landscape and story. Part of the Harbourfront Centre HATCH season.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
8:00PM Studio Theatre
York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
Click here for tickets.
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“Keep to the Light. Do not let your attention wander. Keep to the Light.”
- The Book of the Dead
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Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH season continues with Mrtvolka from Daniela Sneppova and Penn Kemp. Exploring the space between light and darkness, between presence and absence, Mrtvolka presents a multimedia phantasmagoria that will travel the obscure borderlands separating recorded and live performance. Click here for ticket into.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
7:00PM Studio Theatre
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“A teacher gives freedom. Nothing more.
And the style?
It flourishes in the poetry of each individual.”
- Philippe Gaulier,
The Toromentor
le jeu, light, theatre
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First you are a beautiful human person by FIXT POINT
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FIXT POINT is proud to present Philippe Gaulier in Toronto:
OPEN CLASS OBSERVATION - On the final day of the Bouffon Masterclass with PHILIPPE GAULIER
January 7th, 2011 from 2 to 4pm at Canadian Stage, Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley Street Toronto). Tickets are $20 PURCHASE TICKETS IN ADVANCE HERE - Limited Space
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”When I was 10 years old my best friend was a girl who turned out to be a boy. Now that’s hot.”
Nina Arsenault
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Rob Kempson is the Artistic Producer of the Paprika Festival and on November 28th, the Festival is celebrating its 10th birthday. For the second year now Rob somehow manages to pull together an amazing Festival of new work by young artists. Sure he has help from a stellar executive team, but the guy doesn’t even drink coffee… what gives? Now that’s hot.
Paprika Does Double Digits: November 28th
A collection of work from the past ten years, performed by current participants, artists, alumni and friends of the Festival
Reception at 7pm, performance at 8pm
Tarragon Theatre Mainspace
Limited tickets available, call the Tarragon Box Office at 416.531.1827
www.paprikafestival.com
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The English noun identity comes, ultimately, from the Latin adverb identidem, which means “repeatedly.” The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English, buh-BUM-buh-BUM—a simple iamb, repeated; and identidem is, in fact, nothing more than a reduplication of the word idem, “the same”: idem(et)idem. Same (and) same. The same, repeated. It is a word that does exactly what it means.
It seems odd, at first glance, that a noun that we associate with distinctiveness and individuality, with the irreducible uniqueness of each person, should derive from one that denotes (and even sounds like) nothing but mechanical repetition. But once you’ve given it some thought, the etymology of identity makes a kind of sense. At least one way of establishing what something is, after all, is to see whether it always remains itself, and nothing else, over and over again. This is also the case, presumably, for people: you are, endlessly and repeatedly, you, and not some other.
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Writer for theatre, tv and film, Bobby Theodore is the co-creator (with Ame Henderson) of 300 TAPES – a bold experiment in storytelling exploring how our memories are shaped (and warped) over time. Created over two years as part of The Theatre Centre’s Residency Program, 300 TAPES merges theatre, sound art and choreography.
300 TAPES by Public Recordings runs December 1-12 at The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto (before heading to Calgary in Feb 2011). 416-538-0988.
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“They say that if you think you are crazy, then you aren’t. People say that. Right? So the opposite must be true too. If you aren’t crazy, then people say they think you are?”
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Renna Reddie is producing for Eldritch Theatre’s Madhouse Variations by Eric Woolfe. She hasn’t been able to sleep properly since the dress run and doesn’t like being backstage alone with all the puppets.
Madhouse Variations runs October 26-November 7th with a special Halloween Show at 10:30pm on Saturday October 30th at The Theatre Centre.
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To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate:
come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s
done cannot be undone.–To bed, to bed, to bed!
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Matthew Walker is currently directing Litmus Theatre’s Matchbox Macbeth, an eerie and magical hour-long adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic in a backyard shed. Oct 21-31, Thu-Sun at 7 and 9pm. PWYC, ($10 suggested donation).
Secret Location in the heart of Little Italy revealed with email booking to matchboxmacbeth@gmail.com.
