I have a new review up on VANDOCUMENT, covering a performance by the fabulous Bozzini Quartet of experimental works by emerging Canadian composers. An astonishingly great concert!
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Bozzini Lab 2014: Young Composers Shine in Exploration of New Music
Published 14 June 2014 Art & Culture 1 CommentTags: (), 51342... Enter, Bozzini, Bozzini Quartet, Brian Garbet, Canadian composers, Chamber Music, Christopher Butterfield, Clemens Merkel, Course Grain, Dave Riedstra, Feather Swarms, Four Penny Pocket, Isabelle Bozzini, Janet Sit, Jeff Ens, Let it Burn, Maren Lisac, Matt Kaufhold, Maxime Daigneault, Mnemonic, Murmuration, Nadia Francavilla, New Music, Nicola Tesla, Owen Underhill, Quatour Bozzini, Sébastien Lachaume, SFU, Stéphanie Bozzini, Trichinella Spirals, Woodwards, Young Composers in Concert, Zulfikar Nathoo
Show-Up
Published 23 October 2012 Art & Culture 6 CommentsTags: Alone Together, Anton Lipovetsky, art, Arts Club, civic obligation, community, culture, Jenn Griffin, Margo Kane, participation, Public Square, Revue Stage, SFU, showing-up, Simon Fraser University, The Unplugging, theater, theatre, Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation, Woody Allen, Yvette Nolan
Show-up, people. Just fucking-show-up.
Tonight, Yoo-Mi and I were privileged to attend a performance of Yvette Nolan’s smart, gripping new work, The Unplugging, at The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Revue Stage. The play, set in post-apocalyptic Canada, explores the emotional need for community, the compulsion to generosity, and the go-to sustainability of traditional ways of living. It also illustrates the dangerous ways in which these virtues are challenged by the venality of a culture that has convinced itself that survival is a zero-sum game. The dialogue is tight, the production simple, direct, and effective, and the acting (by Jenn Griffin, Margo Kane, and Anton Lipovetsky) stunningly superb. By all rights, the 198-seat theater should have been packed.
Instead, there were twenty of us comprising the audience.
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