Performing arts

I recently had the opportunity to attend the preview showing of ThySelf, the latest piece by Victoria-based indie dance company Broken Rhythms. In this new work, the company’s artistic director …
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Company C, the third-year student group at the Canadian College of Performing Arts, presents Cabaret, a sensuous tale of art and love in Germany’s interwar period.

 Cabaret is the story …
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Langham Court Theatre recently presented a three-week run of Michel Tremblay’s 1965 play Les Belles-Soeurs. In this production, under the clear and bold direction of Judy Treloar, fourteen local actresses …
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Richard O’Brien’s rambunctious, unruly, bawdy cult-favourite The Rocky Horror Show returns to the Metro Studio Theatre this fall under the deft and assured direction of Britt Small.
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A young girl wears a diving mask and a Catholic-school uniform. Music swells as she swims around the stage, which is a surreal mélange of seascape and 1960s’ living room, …
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My highest joy is to create a space for passion, creativity, and sensuality to grow in other people either through the work I do on stage, the art I …
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‘Look Mummy, I’m Dancing’ is the extraordinary true story of 64-year-old Belgian theatre artist Vanessa van Durme. It is the candid and honest account of her life that started as a little boy and the journey she underwent as one of the pioneering transsexuals of her time. Vanessa tackles prejudice head-on in this hilarious and touching show about staying true to yourself against all odds.

You can read more about it here: http://www.intrepidtheatre.com/shows/2413-2/

On Jan 26, Metro Studio (Quadra at Johnson)
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