Inspired.

"We should use dance to explain all of our complex problems, imagine our politicians using dance to explain why we should invade a foreign country or bail out an investment bank" - John Bohannon

Have you seen this Ted Talk?

Watch it. Do it. I even figured out how to post it in my blog, to make it convenient for you.

So what if I told you this exact performance was taking place in Calgary? With dancers as a power point presentation, to a speech on political engagement? Saturday - John Dutton Theatre - 7:00pm.
(It includes two dance performances, hors d'heuvres and a cash bar)

Fascinated

Green Fool Theatre is an arts company that focuses on physical art that utilizes masks, puppets and stilts. They had a performance that ran this past week called Once Upon an Atom Bomb. It took place in this little church on Earlton Road and I originally didn't think I had time to see it. But then I was talking to Stephen Hunt at the Calgary Herald and he said that I should see it for the projection art.
So I made time yesterday to fit this little show in.

Examining the craziness of desire.

Photo Credit: Walter Tychnowicz

There are always things in life that anchor us to the past. For May in Sage Theatre's Fool For Love, it's Eddie.

The lights come on and we're introduced to May (Jamie Konchak) and Eddie (David MacInnis), clearly in the midst of a fight in her motel room. They push and pull at each other, illustrating their love/hate relationship through outbursts and volatility. Slowly, we realize that May is waiting for her new boyfriend Martin (Kevin Rothery), to take her to the movies, when Eddie, her ex boyfriend had come to see her. Eddie pulls May back into their own history and fantasy and reality overlap. The Old Man (Shaun Johnston) makes an appearance as May and Eddie dive into the story of their past.