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FADO - performance April 27 at 8pm (continued)

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When performance-installation encounters theatre in Julie Andrée T’s work, the blend is unsettling and fascinating. Julie’s iconoclastic work is a hybrid of these two approaches in which dialogue, a series of actions and live images are gradually distilled into poetry. Disconcerting, moving and unclassifiable, Not Waterproof deploys an astounding transformation of the body by means of a metamorphosis of the stage landscape. In Not Waterproof, Julie Andrée T. exchanges dramatic text for a material based writing created through physical action, refusing all semblance of character and playing with the codes of representation. Her body is subjected to a series of ordeals, is pulverized and dirtied, becoming a dreamscape. In exposing her vulnerability, she quietly conveys the impermanent and ephemeral nature of our lives. Like an effervescent fraternal twin.

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Posted: April 17th, 2009 under April Newsletter.
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DISCUSSION CORNER by Jacob Zimmer (continued)

… and that’s the point too.

To have space to reflect, in a deep back of the brain kind of way. The kind of reflection that happens from playing in park, in actually reading some of the books I buy, in letting mind wander in a way that doesn’t just mean hitting the refresh button. These seem to be uneasy times and maybe Toronto is an uneasy city. Or at least the way I’m dealing with it is.

But it is sunny when I look past my computer monitor. And yet, here I am, inside, wearing jogging pants and a hoody, complaining about being busy and overwhelmed.

I’m stepping away from the computer. To see if that helps.

So - there are many things to discuss. Let’s do it in the streets, in the theatre, and in the bars. Let’s do it in person.

I hope to see you soon.

Posted: April 17th, 2009 under April Newsletter, DISCUSSION CORNER.
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AFTERIMAGE (continued)

Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage 08:09 welcomes the world premiere of Artistic Fraud’s AfterImage, a story set in the Newfoundland mining town of Buchans that revolves around a family created and devastated by an accidental electrocution and unexpected adoption. Shaped by an ensemble cast, an original choral music score and an electrified set, the end result is a living, kaleidoscopic, musical stage where spectacle meets story. Prepare yourself for an “electrifying” evening.Directed by Jillian Keiley,

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Posted: April 17th, 2009 under April Newsletter.
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Theatre Replacement (continued)

Six artists of diversity created performances drawn from interviews with six first-generation Canadians of the same culture. Originally co-produced by Theatre Replacement and the High Performance Rodeo, BIOBOXES is directed by Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long and built by Kofu Yamamoto, with video design by Candelario Andrade, dramaturgy by Kris Nelson and featuring the talents of: Anita Rochon, Marco Soriano, Paul Ternes, Cindy Mochizuki, Donna Soares, and Una Memisevic.