Performance, Place, and Politics

That's a great piece, Peter. Very well said! Y...

2012-04-18T16:55:52.176-07:00

That's a great piece, Peter. Very well said! You'd like Chantal Hebert's piece in the Star today, which distinguishes very insightfully between the Cons' and Quebecer's respective position regarding the Charter. Helen

We want you to be a West Coast Mammal too. I'l...

2012-02-09T08:23:19.043-08:00

We want you to be a West Coast Mammal too. I'll find you and send you the deets and some other stuff. Thanks for covering for Nicli's

Wonderful. Beautifully said, Peter. Dane B. McFad...

2012-02-06T14:53:52.510-08:00

Wonderful. Beautifully said, Peter.

Dane B. McFadhen
(facebook)

Great review Peter! I'm working with IPAA an...

2012-02-04T19:12:33.151-08:00

Great review Peter!

I'm working with IPAA and NEPA is in our membership. Such talented folks. I very happily found the link to your review through Facebook labyrinths.

Hope you're well.

C. Calon

nice review. This was my favorite of the 2012 PuSh...

2012-02-04T15:07:58.806-08:00

nice review. This was my favorite of the 2012 PuSh offerings, and I was impressed by how well the staging decisions--revolving set, character narrations, and screens with English subtitles--enhanced the performance. The series of vignettes did a powerful job of moving the characters from their early energetic adulthood to their later desire to reflect on their lives through writing, photography, and video.

I also saw this show on the weekend and I complete...

2012-01-25T14:41:50.291-08:00

I also saw this show on the weekend and I completely agree with your review.I have seen New York shows and this one would definitely be a smashing hit there. It's brilliant and the most creative show I've seen in years.

Thanks for this review. I had the chance to see th...

2011-12-22T15:15:08.736-08:00

Thanks for this review. I had the chance to see this production last week, and was similarly impressed.

Hi Margie. We don't know each other yet. I cau...

2011-06-30T08:04:08.879-07:00

Hi Margie. We don't know each other yet. I caught the Sun TV clip. I'm still Bristling It hurt me so much to see. I don't know your work...Guess I will now...but as a fellow artist..(I just draw cartoons..nothing serious for most.) I can't quite understand why I got so angry looking at this mean spirited person attacking. I must say....you defended yourself quite well. A new Friend.
Michel Magnan

It's the Bank Dogs! But an insightful receptio...

2011-02-03T16:44:14.625-08:00

It's the Bank Dogs! But an insightful reception of a piece I also enjoyed.

Hi, I am currently studying Industrial Design at ...

2011-01-27T17:56:07.247-08:00

Hi,

I am currently studying Industrial Design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Before studying Industrial Design I have also studied architecture and contemporary dance in Sweden. I believe it is important to try as much as possible, to work interdisciplinary between different disciplines. Therefor I am very curious of how you think the cultural scene in Vancouver can be improved and how interaction can be part of our daily environment.

In my studio project I am doing an research upon "Performative Space". This is a great opportunity to explore how movement can create space and a bodily experience. In my research I am interested in how the body organisation and movements can affect the spatial perception, the spatial experience and the spatial representation. My hope is to be able to take two different sites, studying physical pattern, changing connections and use those parameters to create an spatial installation on site, that can manipulate and articulate the space.

I would be very grateful If you would have the time to answer these questions:

1. Where do you think there is a need for interaction and performative spaces?
2. In what way do you think that a designed space can engage and be an experience? Can it have a storytelling effect?
3. Do you have any suggestions on how to make people more aware of the spaces they move through?

I really appreciate your help. If you have any other feedback I would be very grateful. Please send the answers to my e-mail: sofia.c.adolfsson@gmail.com

Best regards,

Sofia Adolfsson

Hear Hear ! well said....you have articulated my ...

2010-09-18T13:48:02.701-07:00

Hear Hear ! well said....you have articulated my thoughts well.

I've never seen a black fly in Winnipeg. Mosq...

2010-07-04T10:10:22.259-07:00

I've never seen a black fly in Winnipeg. Mosquito's, sure, but Winnipeg has an extensive mosquito control program in place.

I think that so far, the best of the World Cup is ...

2010-06-22T10:48:34.502-07:00

I think that so far, the best of the World Cup is the Argentine team, and the worst the vuvuzelas!
I´m enjoying all the games in my apartment for rent Buenos Aires with friends!
Cheers

Peter, This is useful. Thanks. We are still (alwa...

2010-05-07T07:49:51.559-07:00

Peter,

This is useful. Thanks. We are still (always) working on the show, and your thoughts here are helpful as we try to determine what we're really trying to get at, and where we need to go next.

It's interesting ... re. national differences in comedic style. When we played the last show in the States, in Seattle, a few years ago, audiences were ecstatic. They (generally) responded much more directly, forcefully, and enthusiastically than most audiences in Canada. This may have had as much to do with the content (all about the US administration and US War on Terror) as the perhaps more US style approach.

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2010-05-06T22:52:33.129-07:00
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2010-05-01T22:09:03.224-07:00
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Hi Guillermo, Thanks for your comment. Re the fin...

2010-04-26T20:25:07.849-07:00

Hi Guillermo,

Thanks for your comment. Re the final paragraph, I was just speculating out loud on whether the sort of comedic satire that seems to go hand-in-hand with American politics works in the Canadian context. It's not that I believe the detainee scandal and the indiscriminate use of security certificates should be treated with kid gloves. But I do wonder about differences in the national-cultural comedic temperament here in Canada that maybe account for our penchant for different levels of irony vs. outright satire. There are, for example, noticeable qualitative differences between the Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour, and the Rick Mercer Report and Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert. Maybe this has to do with a Canadian politeness and political passivity that needs to be shaken up by the Ali and Alis of this world; or maybe it has something to do with the parliamentary system we share with the UK (the satire of Spitting Image and Yes, Minister is pretty biting, to be sure, but also vaguely homilitic).

Then, too, race overlays so many of these questions re US political comedy in ways that Canada would prefer to sidestep. I mean, Little Mosque on the Prairie is all about tolerance and wholesome entertainment. Imagine the scandal at the CBC were a plot about sleeper cells to be introduced!

All of this was in the back of my mind as I watched your show and tried to account for what I frankly found was a really confusing balance of tone. Just when I thought you would go for the comedic jugular re current Canadian foreign policy, the show seemed to retreat to the strange safety of domestic melodrama. Not that Ali Hakim's monologue about his family isn't moving; it just seemed anomalous in the context of what had preceded it.

Why is Stephen Harper in that opening slide show, and later in the puppet show in the White House? Presumably because he's worthy of Ali and Ali's inestimable skewering. I kept waiting for this to happen--especially re things like his cavalier proroguing of parliament (twice) and the ongoing detainee scandal (which, admittedly, you did allude to through Sukhwindar's heavily censored evidence against Ali and Ali). But, it seemed to me, that whereas George W was an easy--and fitting--main target in your first show, the target that ostensibly should have been in your sights here, ie Stephen H, was awkwardly displaced onto Obama and Laara's character, whose gender and ethnicity again complicate this displacement in interesting ways.

I'm blathering on, right now, but you asked for elaboration, and for what it's worth, here it is.

Best,

Peter

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Hey Peter, Thanks for the thoughful response to ...

2010-04-25T19:59:53.579-07:00

Hey Peter,

Thanks for the thoughful response to our show. I wonder if I could ask you to elaborate. I don't quite understand the distinctions between types of political satire and the connection to Canadian domestic and foreign politics (in the final paragraph). I'm not writing to quibble; Marcus, Camyar and I are always looking for intelligent reflection that can help us develop the show.

Thanks,

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2010-03-31T21:46:55.196-07:00

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2010-03-22T21:36:48.531-07:00

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Thanks for coming, Peter, and for blogging about i...

2010-03-19T15:46:29.278-07:00

Thanks for coming, Peter, and for blogging about it. And thank you too for remaining open-minded all the way through! Nixon in China is certainly a different kind of opera and really takes the art form in a new direction.

Opera is vast genre, encompassing everything from light, sparkling Mozart comedies to heavy, darkly passionate works by Wagner. Opera fans are varied too, wonderfully and wildly opinionated, even when it comes to the ‘classics’: some refuse to sit through Mozart and some think that Wagner could stand a good edit. But one thing is common: they will not suffer for their art and neither should you. If you liked the singing, the acting, the sets, the music and the ballet, but it just seemed too long, or the story too abstract, that’s perfectly valid.

Like any art form, there are some operas that are better appreciated after some experience with the genre, like Nixon. But above all, opera is meant to be enjoyed, and so if you didn’t like Nixon, you didn’t like Nixon, no matter what the critics say.

Up next at VO, we have The Marriage of Figaro, which is as different from Nixon as you can get. If you haven’t seen it already, I’d encourage you to give it a try. If you don’t like it, well, then it’s probably safe to say opera’s not for you! Fair enough – some people don’t like jazz, or ballet. (Personally, I don’t understand the big deal about Fellini. So there you go.)

But thank you again for coming to the show and for this post.

All best wishes,
Selina
Communications Manager
Vancouver Opera
www.vancouveropera.ca

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