Amongst the slew of solo performances at the Calgary Fringe Festival, it’s really easy to get lost amongst the shuffle. Kyall Rakoz and his entry Ludwig and Lohengrin should not be one of them. Rakoz pulls together a fairytale about King Ludwig II of Bavaria as its told by his acquaintances, close friends and supporters.
“Contemporary dance is very challenging to audiences and that’s normal,” Pamela Tzeng says, “audiences have to be comfortable with interpreting something and seeing new vocabulary [of movement].” A new vocabulary of movement is what is being created in Tzeng’s Make Shift Project, an evening of dance with two performances: The Box I Came In and […]
To be frank, the opening to Andrew Bailey’s Limbo didn’t really grab me. He opens by welcoming you to his monologue and then proceeds to do a bit of improv. Except he doesn’t incorporate anything given within his improvisation, mostly to prove that everyone has freedom of choice and then he spends approximately the next […]