-The Rolling Stones Thoughts On La Galerie and Somos In one of the public talks for the MICC, Yaron Lifschitz reminded the audience that, despite current trends, circus doesn’t NEED a theme. It doesn’t need to be, for instance, in “an art gallery.” He was, of course, making a po ...
A Sweet Saga: A Deux Roues, La Vie!
This adorable show mixes clown, cycling tricks, and puppetry. Describing it as “magic,” as the program does, seems wrong to me as these are clearly objects endowed with life - they “help,” “comfort,” and “provoke” the person onstage as living beings do. They seem to sympathize with the protagonis ...
We Can’t Both be Crazy at the Same Time: Se Prendre Part 2 of 2
I find that I cannot write about this show without being intensely personal. Supposedly, as Martha Graham translated her autobiography into Jungian mythology the audience found themselves subject to the same psychoanalytical process as the artist. Perhaps some lucky few experienced the storie ...
We Can’t Both be Crazy at the Same Time: Se Prendre Part 1 of 2
During his public presentation in the 4th Space at Concordia University, Sean Gandini talked about “making something new in the kitchen” and joked about stopping to snack when you got hungry. The video recording playing as he spoke showed a trio of jugglers in front of a set of pine shelves that we ...
Tripping the Triptych
Bosch Dreams would have been the place to leave my “critical mind” behind. The projections were lush and engrossing. The environments for the hand balancing act and the single point trapeze act were whimsical in a way that seldom fails to delight me. Some of the circus acts were spectac ...
Pas De (Trois?)
Excerpt: Their “flow state,” to reference the reading from Anne Bogart, becomes infectious. The metaphor of a river is too organic for the cold grey stage, lit with the searing colors and crisp, multiplied shadows of contemporary dance lighting. Perhaps instead the apt metaphor comes from the ...