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Bending Backs and Bones, and Dancing with Carmen Aguirre at “Broken Tailbone”

February 18, 2018
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Salsa! Merengue! Arms flailing and booty shaking! This interactive performance slash dance lesson took Latinx dancing to a whole new level. For Carmen Aguirre, instructor and performer, Latinx culture, identity, and history are tied to her every move. Here, the

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Ezralow Dance’s “OPEN” Is a Fantastic Start to the Chutzpah! Festival

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018
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Quite aptly the dance piece opening this year’s Chutzpah! Festival is entitled ‘OPEN’, and boy did it kick things off with a punch. It is a wickedly eclectic juggernaut of a show. With multimedia projections on a series of movable

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Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s Jabberwocky Is A Strange and Beautiful Wonderland

February 9, 2018
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“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite the claws that catch”. What did I think of the Old Trout Puppet workshop’s production – “Jabberwocky”? Well, I don’t think I could put it better than Alice herself: “It seems

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“Eternal Tides” Is Visually Arresting and Thematically Complex

February 8, 2018
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The big show of the PuSh Festival this year was “Eternal Tides” by proclaimed choreographer Lin Lee-Chen as part of Legend Lin Dance Theatre. The hype worked as Queen Elizabeth Theatre was packed on Saturday with a bustle of anticipation

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Talking Matters of the Heart with Ballet BC’s Romeo + Juliet

February 8, 2018February 9, 2018
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Shakespeare’ s iconic play, “Romeo and Juliet” lay the solid foundations of our present-day ideas of love and romance, despite the wear and tear of four centuries. William Shakespeare vividly recreated the mad longing of young love, its reckless nature,

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Meet the New Lads on the Block in “Dublin Oldschool”

February 1, 2018February 5, 2018
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“Dublin Oldschool” is a labour of love. Whether conveying a love for a city as intriguing as Dublin, the love of doing things for the heck of it, the love for family, or the love of music, this show is

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“It’s Dark Outside” is A Deeply Moving Portrait of Aging

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018
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“It’s Dark Outside” was a delight. It was intrinsically sad yet uplifting, visually mesmerising and ultimately spellbinding. Its meaning is elusive at first. Pitched as a wild west mystery, we follow our weathered protagonist’s quest to understand the mysterious things

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