Fluid Cabaret | Staying with the Trouble
“Trouble is an interesting word.” - Haraway
Donna Haraway reframes trouble, traveling back to the French source “to stir up,” “to make cloudy,” “to disturb.” Staying present in the turbid present, we tasked artists to make trouble, stir up potential, stay in the murk and mire, and watch the fluid unsettling of meaning-making as they reflect on what staying with the trouble stirs in them.
Lungs | Jennifer McLeish-Lewis
Lungs is a cowboy cameo inspired by Country and Western music. Dark and dank, smelling of beer and sweat and cigarettes, dare to descend the disheveled staircase down into an underground speakeasy where you’ll find this evening’s host. This south-western crooner will wrangle your attention with a triple threat of dance, theatre and music. Inhaling and exhaling, receiving and letting go, his lungs tell a story of heartbreak and grief. A trumpet playing outlaw who gallops and kicks and bucks so high, he’ll leave you wondering if he’s the horse, the bull or the rider.
Petrichor | Samantha Ketsa
Earthy funk of a fresh rainstorm. Warm, salty prickles of half-dried tears on flushed cheeks. Sparkling awareness pooling in muddy troughs. Petrichor finds the dancer steeping in the moment after a fall from a great height. The question is, where to go from here.
Cauldron | Philip Geller
Double, double toil and trouble:
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
This show is made to fumble
The thoughts are new, all a-jumble
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
It is dirty scum
Tum tum, bum bum
A Breath to Take | Shayla Waschuk
This work explores the authentic self, entailing movement explorations that seek conscious connections between breath and body as a means to relieve feelings of stress and anxiety.
that’s not it….that’s it | Shondra Cromwell-Krywulak
The feeling of being swallowed up by everything around you. Searching for stability and clarity.
won’t work, can’t do it, just find it, don’t know what…
Disspoet | Wakefield Brewster & Sabrina Naz Comănescu
Tackling lived experiences through poetry and movement Brewster and Comanescu come together in this new collaboration called DISSPOET.
Crippling Gender (Expectations) | Riki Entz
Crippling Gender (expectations) is an exploration of being trans with a physically disabled body in a time when both have become political, especially here in Alberta. It is about challenging expectations about what Transgender means, especially in a non binary context, and how to express that using a physically disabled body.
Echoes of Light | Anastassiia Alexander