The innovative Vancouver trio The Tomorrow Collective presents an eclectic and entertaining evening of dance for the fifth edition of the Pulse series. Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, Katy Harris-McLeod and Mara Branscombe perform a new version of the audience favourite You Are Here, a trio choreographed by one of Canada’s finest dance artists, Susan Elliott; and each will also perform a dynamic new solo. The evening is an opportunity to catch three of Vancouver’s busiest dance artists on stage together, and to enjoy the contrasting performance styles and fresh energy the Collective has become known for.
Vancouver New Music, the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia School of Music are pleased to host Helmut Lachenmann, one of the most influential European composers of the 20th and 21st century. With Special guest Helmut Lachenmann, Jee Yeon Ryu, piano, Max Murray, tuba, AK Coope, clarinet and Franklin Cox, cello. The program will feature compositions by Helmut Lachenmann and Luigi Nono.
One of the most prominent living American composers and a prodigiously talented pianist, he is also an old-fashioned iconoclast. He's blunt-speaking, cantankerous, focused on his art and intent on creating it with as much independence as possible from the institutions and bureaucracies that have congealed around it. Political and engaged, his music is strongly rooted in American tradition.
“You'd meet a businessman and they'd say, 'Oh, you're a musician, what kind of music do you make?' And I always used to stammer something. But then I found a way that seems to work well. I say 'I do traditional music.' And people seem to accept that. And it's true. I'm just a traditional musician." – Frederic Rzewski
Free artist chat at 7pm.
$20 regular/$15 students and seniors; single tickets are available at Sikora’s Classical Records (432 West Hastings Street) through Tickets Tonight (www.ticketstonight.ca / 604.631.2872) and at the door. A pass for all three concerts is available for $45/$30 and is available only through Vancouver New Music (837 Davie Street or 604.633.0861).
Earth worship has always been an important part of humanity. Earth rituals demonstrate our belief that the Earth has healing properties. In fact, the Earth was so sacred to the ancient civilizations that for centuries they would settle legal disputes by calling upon the Earth as a witness. If a person were to swear an oath while placing an item created by the forces of Nature on one’s head, it was considered binding and uncontestable.
The MiLan Metis Healing Art Project-MMHAP is a modern approach to a ritual carried on for centuries by human beings. MMHAP’s ritual includes the calcium shells that protected life along the Pacific shores of English Bay, the driftwood that has drifted in the ocean for an indefinite period, to the Granite high up in the mountains near Whistler. The eight cardinal points of the Earth are represented by natural fire, and Water is honored as well in most of the MMHAP pieces.
Canadian Aboriginal Metis Artist Mark MiLan intends this artistic ritual to bring additional good to the Canadian Aboriginal Metis Peoples, as he also hopes that this project inspires others to take notice and better care of our dearest Mother Earth.
