I saw Momix on Sunday night with some friends. The show was beautiful, using black screens with the dancers and puppets illuminated under UV light. The performance, was technically brilliant, once you figured out the trick the show was more of a one trick pony than anything meaningful. Both sections were performed behind a scrim [...]
This article originally appeared in United Dance Magazine Issue 1 Emrhys Cooper is about to explode from his West End beginnings to a role in the movie adaptation of Mamma Mia. He spoke to Petah Marian about passion, confidence and ambition — his central ingredients for success. Growing up in Totnes, Devon, Emrhys Cooper started [...]
Last Sunday night, I (half heartedly) put on my chicest frock and my edgiest makeup and headed down to Boombox. Arriving after nine, I was grateful for being on the list, as far fiercer outfits were being turned away to see Vancouver’s own Stinkmitt perform at Boombox. Billed as irreverent and subversive, Stinkmitt did not [...]
Hofesh Shechter’s new dance production Uprising, begins with a fragmentary glimpse into the evolution of the modern male psyche beginning with such brutal force the audience is snapped into a heightened state of consciousness. In uprising the mood changes so dramatically from jocularity to something more sinister within an instant. He creates a hurtling dynamic, [...]