Marisa Hoicka as Uncle Wink and Johnny Forever work with themes of love and labour through drag aesthetics in their performance, Trust My Gut. Documentation was film at FADO’s 2011 Emerging Artists Series. Hoicka and Forever will find humour in …
This installment of First Encounters is a little bit different. Instead of having two artists interview one another, we’re doing something that we like to call a domino interview. One artist poses a question to another artist who answers it …
Dance and performance artist Keith Hennessy will be here during Week 2 of Rhubarb to present his internationally acclaimed CROTCH, and to facilitate a free 2-day workshop, Performing (queer) Failure, presented in association with Hub 14. Keith works within tensions …
Throughout the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a series of interviews between artists who we felt shared something in common but might have initially been unfamiliar with one another. Welcome to First Encounters! Today, Bleed’s Adam Lazarus and the …
PERFORMANCE ORDER #1: I’ll Have What They’re Having “The Made to Order dance project is built around my ongoing search for people to describe their ideas for dance pieces; but here, the visions become reality.” – Lady Janitor (AKA Eroca …
Toronto welcomes back Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party as part of 2012 Rhubarb Mobile Works series. Mobile Works infiltrates public spaces with performance, and this year features a mad open-source dance party. On Wednesday February 15, we’ll start dancing …
New to the festival this year is the One-to-One Performance Series, performances designed for one performer and one audience member at a time. Our friends at The 519 Church Street Community Centre, where these special performances will be taking place, …
Welcome! I’m thrilled to be able to share with you the programming for the 33rd Rhubarb Festival: a year of unparalleled raw, radical, performance. From now until the end of February, with the help of Rhubarb interns Kari Pederson and …
Applications to the 33rd Rhubarb Festival are due next Friday, September 2.More info is available here, and you can download the application here – or visit buddiesinbadtimes.com for everything all in one place.
TOP 5 PLACES TO CLEAR MY HEADfrom Holly Treddenick of Femmes de Feu – their show Airship runs until Saturday at Rhubarb 1. Puttering around my house on the phone with my friend Maria 2. Dangling in the air from …