Interdisciplinary Performance
Save the day! Don’t forget to mark your calendars for these important upcoming events. AUGUST: SITI Company 5-day Intensive Aug 9-13, 2010 Month:...
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The SITI summer workshop scheduled from Aug 9 to 13 at Capilano University has been sold out for weeks BUT three spots have just opened up. If you have been sitting on the fence,...
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The May issue of Time Off, and entertainment magazine in Brisbane, featured a preview of Dante’s Inferno and an interview. If you find us somewhere in a newspaper, magazine...
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Human Theatre director Tora Hylands will be exhibiting a series of photos as part of the Vancouver Pride / Queer Arts Festival this summer. Tora’s work is a collection of...
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Well, it’s probably been about 15 years since I seriously dug into a book on theory. Shocking! I know. Back in the 90s theorists were really hard on us; elaborate and stilted language, the preoccupation with the “wired” world and viewing theatre as a quaint and marginalised practice. The results were disappointing to me and more often than not,...
Peter Brook’s “The Empty Space”. Chapter 4, The Immediate Theatre. The Immediate Theatre is the theatre of the fresh. In this chapter Brook generously positins himself as a fellow student of the art. The most valuable thing I have taken from this book, and that I continue to practice years later is a tolerance for ambiguity. This is largely...
Peter Brook’s “The Empty Space”. Chapter 3, The Rough Theatre. Rough Theatre is the theatre of torn edges, dirt, makeshift and make-do. In direct contrast to the Holy, the Rough gives more validity to down-to-earth crudeness than to the eloquence of prayer (p. 71). Brook reminds us that theatre can exist in an attic or a bombed out theatre...
