Morsels: the last of it.
Well, well. Through blood, history, muscle, reference, risk, sweat, time sequence, the raw and the radical, we’ve arrived at the last day of the festival and it’s been a blast – but it’s not over yet. We still have today’s …
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Made to Order – Excuse me, there’s a hair in my food.
From Rhubarb Intern Kari Pederson It’s Week 2 and the orders keep rolling in. Last Saturday, we watched as Eroca Nichols and her crew of dancers filled performance orders that had been taken in the Made to Order café, as …
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Morsels: Rhubarb is back at it. Ready, willing and very excited, Week 2 opens tonight!
After goddesses and mermaids, cabaret and karaoke, ginger-ale, wallpapering, surgical procedures, beautiful failures, rocking some opera and a bloody good time, we’re ready and willing for another week of Rhubarb Festival. Expect more raw and radical dance, performance art and …
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PERFORMANCE ORDER #5: Shannon Roszell
What are you doing this Valentine’s Day? Sure, there are the old standards: the dinner-and-movie, the When-Harry-Met-Sally-Met-Ben-and-Jerry, the opening-of-your-mom’s-annual-cheesy-card, the celebratory drink with your fellow singletons… but why not try something new? We think participants will fall in love with …
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Morsels: Body Politics and Karaoke Melodrama – Video Art today!
Week 1 at Rhubarb is in full, fantastic swing and the madness has only begun. Be sure to catch video art, artist’s discussions and the raucous karaoke party happening tonight! At 4pm we’ll be diving into body, queerness, multi-race …
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First Encounters: One-To One Performance Part 2 featuring Berenicci Hershorn, Kenji Ouellet, Johnson Ngo, Aynsley Moorhouse and David Frankovich
You’ve read about them in Xtra!, The National Post, on BlogTO and Torontoist (just to name a few!). Starting tonight, you can be among the first to experience one-to-one performance at Rhubarb. At 5:00 we open the box office at …
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PERFORMANCE ORDERS #3 AND #4: Neck Ties and Witchcraft for the YCU
From the young blood at Rhubarb we’ve taken two more performance orders. Here we talk to Michael David Lorsch of As In Happy and cassy walker of satan in me. Both artists are members of the Young Creator’s Unit, part …
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First Encounters: An Opening-Night Imagined Conversation with YOU
An imagined First Encounters with you, dear blog reader: Us: Hey, what’s the most exciting thing happening in Toronto tonight? You: Easy question. Opening night of Rhubarb at Buddies, obviously. Everyone is going. That’s right, tonight is the night! The …
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PERFORMANCE ORDER #2: Another order up from Wives
Continuing to take performance orders from Rhubarb artists for our blog, we caught Wives (Leah Fay Goldstein, Emma-Kate Guimond and Julia Thomas) rehearsing Sea Foam Blue and took their ultimate performance order. PERFORMANCE ORDER FORM What do you want the dance/performance to be about? Be …
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Morsels: Rachel Steinberg interviews Maggie Hutcheson and Dan Watson
Early on in the curatorial process, it became clear that history—personal history, political history, local history—was going to be a major theme in this year’s festival. Both The Department of Public Memory and The Little G8 That Could explore the …