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PuSh Festival presents The Four Horsemen Project

By ZoeQ on January 11, 2008 - 7:18pm

The Four Horsemen Project, Volcano (Toronto)
January 17–19, 2008, 7pm
January 19, 4pm
The Scotiabank Dance Centre
Tickets $22/28 Tickets Tonight www.ticketstonight.ca
www.volcano.ca | www.pushfestival.ca

Five years in the making, The Four Horsemen Project is a stylistic collision of theatre, dance, sound and animation in tribute to Toronto’s legendary Four Horsemen - Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, and bpNichol - a group of 1970s sound poets who turned the world on its ear, exploding the notion of poetry as the written word.

In this highly anticipated show a new generation of artists breathes life into some nearly forgotten work - iconoclastic, brilliant and delightfully irreverent - which, 30 years later, still feels avant-garde. The Four Horsemen’s outrageously fun poetry is brought to life in an exhilarating exhibition of swirling animation, sonic hi-jinx and stellar performances that thrill with their combination of physical and vocal virtuosity.

Conceived and directed by Toronto’s Ross Manson and Kate Alton, in collaboration with Vancouver animation studio Global Mechanic, this multi-disciplinary extravaganza received its world premiere at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in February 2007 where it wowed audiences and critics, and won four Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Its appearance at PuSh marks its debut in bpNichol’s hometown.

PuSh Festival presents The Misfit

By ZoeQ on January 12, 2008 - 4:18pm

The Misfit
South Asian Arts/Pull ‘it Out Theatre (Vancouver/Toronto)
www.pushfestival.ca

January 17–19, 9pm; January 19, 4pm
Performance Works
Tickets $28/$22 Tickets Tonight
www.ticketstonight.ca 604.231.7535

The Misfit is a dark comedy, inspired by the true story of a South Asian Vancouver woman who was killed for marrying outside of her caste.

It focuses in on a group of Indian wedding dancers who have lived and loved and shared their stories through elements of MTV/Top 40, Urdu Ghazals, Jem and The Holograms, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and super awesome dancing!

The Misfit brings multi-Dora Award nominated and Siminovitch Prize long- listed director/dramturg Mark Cassidy (Kafka & Son), renowned Kathak dancer/choreographer Joanna De Souza (Firedance) and award winning writer/performer Anita Majumdar (Bombay Black, creator of Fish Eyes) together for their first collaboration, examining the harsh reality of tradition, love and honour in both India and Canada.

Registration Now Open :: Women's Cardio Kickboxing Bootcamp

By RCFAdmin on January 12, 2008 - 5:01pm

WOMEN'S CARDIO KICKBOXING BOOTCAMP
Presented by Raz Chan Fitness and Mobile Personal Training

Get fit and stay healthy in 2008 by registering for our popular Women’s Cardio Kickboxing Bootcamp for January 2008!

Join us three times a week for 4 weeks and experience a total body work out with boxing drills, core ab exercises, interval training, and more! Never the same workout twice with our programming and lots of variety to keep all fitness levels challenged.

View video clips and photos of previous Bootcamp classes at http://www.razchanfitness.com.

LOCATIONS & SCHEDULE
All Bootcamps are 3x/week (12 sessions). Due to the format of our Bootcamp, we do not offer drop-in rates or switching of class sessions - please review our registration policy under our FAQs section online. Participants are required to come to class with handwraps and cardio boxing gloves.

*Note: All Saturday classes take place at 2875 St. Georges St. (near Fraser & Kingsway).

VANCOUVER-WEST SIDE – select from two time slots
4588 Clancy Loranger Way

Mon/Wed/Fri - 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Class runs from Feb. 1 - 27/08

or

Mon/Wed – 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm + Saturday – 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Class runs from Jan. 30 - Feb. 25/08

BURNABY – CENTRAL – select from three time slots
6050 Sussex Avenue (by Metropolis, corner of Grange St.)

PuSh Festival presents Old Goriot

By ZoeQ on January 15, 2008 - 11:21pm

January 17–26, 2008, 7:30pm
Telus Studio Theatre, The Chan Centre

Preview
January 16, 2008, 7:30pm

Post-show Talkback
January 22, 2008

No show Sunday

Tickets $25/$20/$15
Theatre at UBC Box Office
604.822.2678

Western Gold Theatre and Theatre at UBC present the premiere of James Fagan Tait’s adaptation of the novel Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac.

This theatrical adaptation of Balzac’s utterly gripping masterpiece builds on the success of Tait and composer Joelysa Pankanea’s unforgettable adaptations of Crime and Punishment and A Christmas Carol. The world premiere of this innovative co-production christens UBC’s 100th Anniversary year.

Balzac has been called the Shakespeare of the novel and with Old Goriot he sets the stage for a modern counterpart to King Lear, a father so blindly devoted to his undeserving daughters that his tragic realization—'I loved them too much for them to love me at all'—comes too late. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine, Old Goriot is a witty and profound treatment of two consuming obsessions: money and love. Original music by Joelysa Pankanea deftly illuminates this timeless tale, from the depths of sorrow and despair to moments of great beauty and transcendence.