Performance, Place, and Politics

A blog about the local/global interfaces of audience and event.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

VIFF

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Went to a fabulous Saturday morning screening at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival . The film was First Position , a doc...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Re-Membering Pina

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Yesterday afternoon Richard and I attended a sold-out screening of Pina , Wim Wenders' 3D homage to the dance-theatre legacy of Pina Bau...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Arena Beats

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I may have been on the wrong frequency last night, but I'm not sure I got the concept behind Heart as Arena , Dana Gingras' new work...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

A Musical to Die For

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Atomic Vaudeville's Ride the Cyclone , on at Granville Island's Revue Stage until next Saturday, October 15th, is a delight from sta...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Circle Mirror Confusion

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Peter Birnie is right. Reading his damning review of the Arts Club production of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation (on at the...

Foresight on Insite

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Kudos to the Supreme Court of Canada for unanimously recognizing what the Harper government (note how I'm following the PMO's prefer...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

NBC at 60

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No, not the National Broadcasting Corporation. I mean the National Ballet of Canada, which is currently on a 60th Anniversary Tour of Wester...
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Peter Dickinson
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
I live in Vancouver and teach in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. I am also the Director of SFU's Institute for Performance Studies. My academic interests include theatre, dance and performance studies, film studies, and gender studies. I am actively interested in the relationship between art and politics, and especially what the performing arts can teach us about our relationships with the places we live, and with the world more generally. Hence this blog.
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