photo by Trudie Lee

Decidedly Jazz DanceWorks -
wowandflutter

October 23 + 24, 2009 |  7:30 PM
McPherson Playhouse

Choreography: Kimberley Cooper
Music: Amon Tobin

Seventy-five minutes of pure dance set to a score by Brazilian/Canadian electronic-music superstar, Amon Tobin. Wildly imaginative, this fresh work for ten sensuous jazz dancers combines video, gorgeous group work and inventive partnering. Choreographer Cooper uses animal movement and imagery to create a richly textured dance vocabulary. Coupled with fiendish speed and driving rhythms, this piece defines dynamism.
“A wild and wonderful conjuncture of soundtrack wizardry, a little video magic, and a never-ending kaleidoscope of movement that is nearly always fresh and engaging and never dull. In other words, a knock-out!” — Calgary Herald

Click here to watch a preview of wowandflutter.

Single ticket prices start at $25.50 | PCC delegates receive 25% discount

WHoS is located inside a Federal Prison
No persons under 19 will be admitted
You may be electronically scanned
Personal belongings  are forbidden (purses, wallets, cell phones, money, etc.)
No smoking materials are permitted

Lovely ladies and generous gents, welcome to the show of shows, the most horrific story ever re-told! You are about to witness the greatest travesty that history has yet recorded – the tale of the Frankenstein family’s tremendous fall from grace. Trapped here for all time, alive for only one night a year, forced to act out their fiendish perversities for William Head on Stage’s 48th production: FRANKENSTEIN IN OBLIVION!

Gates open @ 6:15 p.m. / close @ 7:15 p.m. (Terror begins @ 7:30 p.m.)
Tickets are $18 (no debit cards) & available after Oct. 9 at these locations only:

My Chosen Café      4492 Happy Valley Road    250-474-2333
Soap Exchange      1393-A Hillside Avenue    250-475-0033
Moka House      345 Cook Street            250-388-7377

For further information please contact the WHOS office at (250) 391-7030

PRETTY LITTLE INSTINCTS
Renegade Outdoor Dance Theatre
By Ingrid Hansen and SNAFU Dance Theatre
Warning: Partial Nudity
Free tea & cookies.
Dress Warmly

“Provocative and engaging—and, at times, wonderfully silly—Pretty Little Instincts is the kind of Fringe experience you’ll talk about for years to come.. ****1/2 ”
– Monday Magazine.

ONE NIGHT ONLY:    SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 at 5PM
Free Tea and Talk-back afterwards

Venue: Point Ellice Heritage House, 2616 Pleasant Street.
Point Ellice Heritage House is a garden oasis sandwiched between a mountain of crushed cars and a gravel pit — 20 minute walk (4 minute drive) from downtown: Follow Douglas North towards Mayfair Mall, Left on Bay, Right on Pleasant.  Dress warmly.
TICKETS: $15 or by donation – Cash only at the door
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REVIEW FROM MONDAY MAGAZINE:
Pretty Little Instincts * * * * 1/2
Point Ellice House

A quirky tea party hosted by mute ghosts adorned in their finest Audrey Hepburn blacks, Pretty Little Instincts is the latest from locals SNAFU Dance Theatre—and it’s well worth venturing out of the downtown Fringe zone to see. The living green stage of Point Ellice House’s yard provides a vivid contrast (and an appropriately Victorian setting) for SNAFU’s stark butoh visuals and Hansen’s exploration of social conformity and proper behaviour. While the intentional repetition of some of the choreography reminded me of early Kate Bush videos (never a bad thing), other moments effectively captured the interior motives and exterior appearances of our at-times suffocating lives—all the while hinting at the animal nature lurking just below the societal veneer. Provocative and engaging—and, at times, wonderfully silly—Pretty Little Instincts is the kind of Fringe experience you’ll talk about for years to come. (“Remember that one with the painted naked people dancing on the lawn? No, the other one, the one with the tea cups.”)

—John Threlfall, Monday Magazine

If you can’t make it but wish you could, please consider registering as a No-Show Delegate and donating $10 the the conference as a “DIY Funder” – we will recognise your contribution at our opening reception.

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Performance Creation Canada – Victoria Oct 22-25, 2009
Theme: D.I.Y.

Victoria Steering Committee: Megan Newton, Theatre Bombus; Janet Munsil & Ian Case, Intrepid Theatre; Matthew Payne & Allison Bottomley Theatre SKAM; David Ferguson, Suddenly Dance Theatre;  Brian Paisley

Performance Creation Canada (PCC) is a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes. PCC gatherings are aimed at creating a discussion between artists in dance, theatre, music, film, and visual arts who are interested in the well being of Canadian performance creation.

Held twice each year in different Canadian cities and focusing on themes developed by the local steering committee, PCC gatherings are designed to bring theatre creators together to discuss their work and common issues facing the various artistic disciplines, to be exposed to new ideas and methodologies in theatre creation, and to make personal connections with artistic and academic peers from across the country.

Victoria’s steering committee has been meeting since the fall of 2008, and following a public information session designed to gather ideas of interest to the local community, the theme D.I.Y. (Do it Yourself) was selected. The steering committee felt that this topic captured the logistic and economic realities of producing independent performance works in Canada, forcing artists – for better or worse – to become creative entrepreneurs; and also acknowledges the emergence of a recognizable performance aesthetic that Victoria has become known for across the country – the reinvention of cabaret, vaudeville, music hall and burlesque; site specific work and large scale collective projects;  the meeting of music and visual art, fashion and craft; an active and inclusive indie film scene; and grass-roots venue creation. Recent cuts to Provincial arts funding make this topic more relevant than ever.

Victoria’s theatre community went through a period of dissolution following several small venue closures in the mid 90’s, and for almost a decade there was virtually no independent theatre production.  Frustrated by the lack of practical and financial assistance from the City and Province, and the exodus of talented artists to other centres, the few remaining companies looked at the situation and decided to turn things around themselves. With artist-based leadership, creative ideas, and innovative partnerships, the situation Victoria theatre creators faced has been turned around, and there are more small companies, exciting collaborations, and accessible theatre venues than ever before.

Although the focus of PCC gatherings is on art more than business, we are faced with this reality: public and private sector funding is drying up or being “re-allocated” out of the reach of independent and emerging performance creators who have been known to work theatrical miracles on a shoestring budget. This DIY gathering is about taking personal responsibility for our work and ourselves as performance creators.

Everyone is welcome. Registration fee $10, ticketed admission to performances. $59 PCC hotel deal available through Paul’s Motor Inn: www.paulsmotorinn.com.

For more information or to register:

http://pccvictoria.wordpress.com /Intrepid Theatre: (250)383-2663

Performance Creation Canada is a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes.

Neither a marketplace, trade fair nor traditional conference, PCC is an informal, multidisciplinary initiative committed to identifying and advancing the interests of work that is performed by the artist(s) who create it.

Modeled loosely on the Informal European Theatre Meeting, PCC is an inclusive network that invites the participation of artists, administrators, educators, presenters, producers, agents, archivists, critics and individuals from within funding and policy-making institutions. PCC is concerned with new art in the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, music and interdisciplinary practice. Any individual committed to the well being of the Canadian performance creation milieu is invited to collaborate with the PCC network.

Members meet in cities across the country twice annually. Inaugurated in Calgary, January 2004 PCC has since convened in St. Johns, Vancouver, Regina, Toronto and Whitehorse Ottawa, and Halifax.

The conference is open to anybody. Activities my include guest speakers, formal panel discussion pertaining directly to the theme of the session, discussions on the themes of PCC in general; as well as numerous informal opportunities to network, share ideas and socialize; and to sample performance work by local creators and companies.

WEBSITE: www.performancecreationcanada.ca

Performance Creation Canada (PCC) will endeavour to identify and advance the multifaceted interests of a multidisciplinary definition of work that is performed by the artist(s) who created it. Modeled loosely on the successful Informal European Theatre Meeting, PCC invites the participation of artists, administrators, educators, funding institutions, presenters, agents, archivists and critics from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, music and interdisciplinary work who are interested in the well being of the Canadian performance creation milieu.

Networking Mandate
Excerpted from the document Manifesto of the European Cultural Networks, Brussels 1997:

A network is:
* a group of individuals who all take responsibility for shared goals.
* a dynamic system for communication, co-operation and partnership.

For more information about PCC and past gatherings, visit http://www.performancecreationcanada.ca/