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by Buddies
on February 9th, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on February 8th, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on February 5th, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on February 2nd, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on February 1st, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on January 28th, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on January 27th, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on January 25th, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on January 21st, 2012
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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 …
by Buddies
on January 20th, 2012
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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 …