Full Access Guide for the Shows TBA
Breathe in the Beauty
Fear No Opera
Tour: Songhees
Show Description
Acapella musical selections encourage you to be present in this moment, free of nagging distractions, soaking in the beauty around you. Begin by noticing your breath. Is it fast, slow, laboured, easy? Begin to breathe with the rhythms and flow of the music; then breathe with the rhythms of nature.
Amy Steggles (she/her) – Performer
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
N/A
Not Enough Sunscreen in the World
SNAFU
Tour: Songhees
Show Description
SNAFU’s past SKAMpede shows have featured stylish business people devolving into dancing geese, giant Sea-squatch puppets rising from the sea to suck out people’s brains, and a Viking and Cavewoman gambling audience members in a life-size game of Wizard’s Chess. Absurd, stylized, physical, and using every surprise the Goose Trail offers – we can’t wait to see you there. “[SNAFU] will forever change the way you see theatre and its possibilities…as each audience member truly feels like an important part of the narrative.” – Montreal Theatre Hub “A true pleasure that I would recommend to anyone who has become a little too familiar with reality.” – The Charlebois Post
Ingrid Hansen (she/her) Lead Artist; Jeni Luther (she/her) Co-Creator/Performer; Other Performer/Musicians, TBC: Ken (he/him), Cory (he/him), Jay (he/him)
Instagram and Twitter: @snafudance
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/snafudancetheatre
ARTISTS: @iamingridhansen (lead artist); @thleenered (Kathleen Greenfield, coproducer); @jeniloothair (Jeni Luther, co-creator/performer)
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
TW: N/A
CN: loud-ish music, people eating snacks, surprises
Deep End
Accompany Theatre
Tour: Songhees
Show Description
Accompany Theatre invites you to enjoy Deep End. Jump into this musical exploration of the big questions of friendship, through the small eyes of bugs! Join us for a playful picnic in the sun, and get to know a lovely ladybug, a busy bee, a mean mosquito, a cautious caterpillar, and a sequestered snail.
Chelsea MacEwan (she/her) – Composer/Performer; Alexa Ste. Marie (she/her) – Costume Designer/Performer; Regina Rios (she/her) – Prop Master/Performer; Courtney Crawford (she/her) – Performer; Rose McTavish (they/he/she) – Playwright/Performer
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
N/A
Environmental Vibrations
Tara Rajah & Kira Radosevic
Tour: Songhees
Show Description
Environmental Vibrations is a community-engaged performance work that relates the idea of the global movement of peoples to the migration of birds. It features a dancer and cellist improvising together within a public space, bringing together different sounds and gestures that represent the journey of leaving and arriving home.The musical improvisation takes as its point of departure the Malaysian (Malacca Portuguese) folk tune Jinkli Nona. The work is composed, choreographed, and performed collaboratively by Kira Radosevic and Tara Rajah
Tara Rajah (she/her) – Cellist; Kira Radosevic (she/her) – Dancer
https://tararajah.weebly.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kira.radozevic
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
N/A
Hello Again
Atomic Vaudeville
Tour: Central
Show Description
A musical Clown Crew is sent by the Establishment to manifest laughter and weave magic into the populace. They encourage an audience participant to sit on the throne, learn about who they are, make up stories, songs and misunderstand them. A ludicrous and consequential encounter.
Kathleen Greenfield (she/they) – Performer/Producer; Pedro Siquiera (he/him) – Performer/Producer; David P. Smith (he/him) – Performer; Britt Small (she/her) – Director/Producer; Angela Kostiniuk (she/her) – Performer; Loreto Espinoza (she/her) – Performer
www.atomicvaudeville.com
articulate
Embrace Arts Foundation
Tour: Central
Show Description
articulate is a dance piece exploring the central theme that “Play is an important form of communication.” It is a series of structured improvisations based on a different childhood games like hide and seek and hopscotch. articulate is truly a celebration of the original electronic music score created by a team of three youth composers, and Embrace’s Director of Music programming, Erin Koop.
Claire Bruce (She/Her) – Performer & Co-Creator; Erin Koop (She/Her) – Musical Director & Co-Creator; Max Lumsden (He/Him) – Performer & Co-Creator; Tiffany Tjosvold (She/Her) – Performer & Co-Creator
www.embracearts.org
Instagram: @embraceartsf
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/EmbraceArtsFoundation
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
N/A
to be them/to be us
Traverse Arts Theatre
Tour: Central
Show Description
to be them/to be us is a collectively created devised performance which dives into themes of community, scarcity, care, shame, displacement, joy, and fear in the context of the lives of Southern Resident Killer Whales, and their relationship to us above water. to be them/to be us draws intrinsic links between the human and the more-than-human and explores the effects of a destructive and unsustainable culture on us all, and the kinds of connection that give purpose, meaning and hope in a world of degrading seas and declining salmon.
Corina Fischer (she/they) – Director; Alida Kelly (she/her) – Ensemble; Cathryn Klincans (she/they) – Ensemble; Michelle Watt (she/her) – Ensemble; Sadie Dufour (she/her) – Ensemble; Sarah Shepherd (any pronouns) – Ensemble.
Instagram @traverseartstheatre
Facebook: Traverse Arts Theatre
funky fungi
Katie Cassady
Tour: Central
Show Description
funky fungi is a contemporary dance duet focussed on interpreting and expressing the existence of fungi, focussing on mycelia networks and mushrooms. Through song and dance, we take an imaginative and fun journey into how mycelia and mushrooms might emote or express joy, exploring how the co-existence and collaboration of many species is necessary to create and sustain life cycles.
Katie Cassady (she/her) – Choreographer/performer; Juolin Lee (she/her) – Performer.
https://katiecassady.space/
Instagram: @katie__cassady (there are two underscores)
Facebook: Katie Cassady
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
N/A
Our beautiful failures
Baobab — Création multidisciplinaire
Tour: Selkirk
Show Description
Our beautiful failures is a project between performing art installation, dance and flash mob, gathering ten performers and questioning our relationship to the over-mediated and ubiquitous pop culture. How do we approach pop culture in our daily lives? To what extent does it permeate everything we eat, live and feel? What real effect does it have on us? In addition to acting as a gravitational field seeking to standardize our desires, it also has a powerful unifying effect. Is it possible to resist this bulldozer of joy, to deny our desires and to resist our most primary desires? How can we not give in to the celebration, to the desire to gather under the same banner, that of collective adrenaline? Can celebration become a tool to deny the urgency of our lives?
Thomas Duret (he/him) – Chorerographer; Performers – TBC.
https://baobabcreation1.wixsite.com/website
Teaser : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SELfZYjeBcI
BIAS
Extended Space Theatre
Tour: Selkirk
Show Description
Is there a reason every story needs to be told? Casey thinks so. And she’ll make sure it’s told correctly. From the creators of GRASP, BIAS is a comedic and heartwarming depiction of the bisexual experience. Through a movement and theatre hybrid, Jordan, Eden, and Casey reflect on the intricacies of sexual identity and the assumption we inherit. Maybe we’re all more similar than we realize.
Ella Daly (she/her) – Performer; Emily Duke (she/her) – Performer; Sammy Forest (he/him) – Performer; Danica Charlie (she/they) – Director/Stage Manager.
Instagram – @extendedspacetheatre
Facebook – Extended Space Theatre
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
CN: Explicit Language
TW: N/A
“When Everything Goes To Hell, I’ll Meet You At Our Spot”
Reverse Puppet Productions
Tour: Selkirk
Show Description
At the end of the world, two ex-best friends both instinctively go back to their favourite childhood “spot” Both refusing to leave, they are forced to either reconcile their differences and work past the arguments that fractured their relationship, or to stay mad and be alone at the end.
Maya Kara (she/her) – Actor/Director; Ruby Dawn Wallace (she/her) Actor/Director/Writer
Content Notes/Trigger Warnings
TW: Discussion of topics including death
CN: Some language; Some yelling