Author: vanlovesart

If you’re looking for upbeat entertainment, dance galore and music that’ll have you singing in the shower for weeks – “The Smash-Hit Musical Based on the Songs of ABBA: Mamma Mia” is a must this summer! This show has been tried and

In “12 Minute Madness” playwright, director, professor and choreographer, Raïna von Waldenberg, goes where few dance shows dare to go. Using twelve characters to depict the twelve psyches that inhabit the mind of a child sexual abuse survivor, von Waldenburg

Ballet BC dazzles again with “Program 3” at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Showcasing three works, which are loosely linked together through the use of the human voice in their musical accompaniment. It is an audacious program full of textural and

An opera singer called the “Queen of Baroque,” a revered music director/conductor of three baroque orchestras, and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra merged their talents on May 6th at the Chan Centre. Marked by winged flights of operatic undulations, violins conversing

The Pemberton Ice Cap (photographing the hand-stitched panorama below) Taking helicopters to remote mountaintops, some covered in snow, ice and glacier lakes, others barren, remote, desolate and hot. Wind blowing in your face, sun beating down, rain, maybe hail. Stitching

How can we best introduce children to the splendid array of instruments in an orchestra? On an afternoon crowned with cherry blossoms and sparkling waters around Vancouver, it was this pedagogical question that eventually enabled numerous children to crowd into the

Have you ever felt like your heart filled to the brim and drained all at once? If art is meant to touch the soul, this opera lurches and grabs every inch of you and refuses to let go. Based on