In his latest collaboration with director Daniel Brooks, MacIvor plays the role of Leonard, who narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to understand them himself. Through the course of the play, we peer behind the curtains of his neighbourhood as MacIvor transforms into the multiple characters who bear witness to Leonard’s life and death. Yet each of their stories, while internally consistent, tells a subtly different version of what happened, progressively colouring and transforming our understanding of the characters as we think we had come to know them. In a headlong rush we understand that everyone’s story inevitably dead-ends at precisely the bottom of the preconceptions they brought to its telling.
Category: Performance
Hothouse
When Performance Space 122 first opened its doors to dancers and performers in 1979, the central event of the week was Open Movement, and later Music/Dance. In 1985 the Open Movement and Music/Dance, sessions and the need for an informal venue where spontaneous dance and music could be explored before an audience, led to the birth of Hothouse , a one of a kind performance series dedicated to improvisation. Curated by DD Dorvillier, Hothouse features month-long showcases of improvisational works. Hothouse brings three to four performers, or groups, together each Sunday to share their latest experiments and culminates in a jam between all of them.
I am the Moon and you are the Man on Me
With the logic of a supermarket romance novel, I am the Moon and You are the Man on Me revolves around Muz, creator and star of the show. Muz plays the moon, in love with the men who are in a race to colonize her.
14 Unnatural Acts
In 14 UnNatural Acts, interdisciplinary artists Roberto Sifuentes and Lián Sifuentes explore a political landscape ruled by fear and religious zealotry, in a culture where civil liberties are put in jeopardy for the sake of security. From homeland security to extreme reality television – from video games to military training – from game shows to evangelism -the characters and audience wind their way through a psycho-sexual-political labyrinth, as witnesses, perpetrators and agents. The result is a performance that uses satire, humor and spectacle to peel away our protective layers of comfort and reveal society’s fears, desires and obsessions.
Where’s the Rub?
New Age Spa or Dr. Frankenstein’s Laboratory?
In WHERE’S THE RUB? Choreographer Mei-Yin Ng and Media Artist Eric Koziol dissect and incongruously reconfigure a traditional Chinese Qi-Gong Massage Parlor and it’s denizens. Concept of beauty, health and healing touch are distorted through body image, fractured sound, and real-time bio-mechanical vision.