So, I’ve always wanted to be a bear. Sarah MacDougall’s album, The Greatest Ones Alive, is being released at the Yukon Arts Centre on Saturday, Nov 12, and Erin and I decided to promote the album by being the dancing bears on the cover of her album. Costumes rented, we danced up and down Main [...]
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Dancing Bears on Main Street, Whitehorse: Sarah MacDougall, The Greatest Ones Alive 1 comment
Gross Heart: Much to Love about Mump and Smoot Leave a comment
Canadian clowns, Mump and Smoot (with Thug), were in Whitehorse tonight in a revival of their first show together, Something. I was led to believe it was going to be scary, or disturbing–but these were not scary clowns. While there are some grotesque moments, there’s a charming show beneath the grossness. It stems from the [...]
The Truth and the Narrative in Beauty: Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s “The Golden Mean” 1 comment
To the slow, pounding, pulsing kettledrum, its waves of sound hitting the audience, the two sheen-fabric wrapped shapes on the stage slowly writhe and discard their stiff shimmering sheaths. So begins Marie Chouinard’s The Golden Mean, restaged for another amazing tour. I would have a hard time describing what happens. It’s modern dance, but the [...]
“Where were you?”: God and Grace in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life Leave a comment
It is a beautiful thing that the Yukon Film Society was able to bring us “Tree of Life” through their new Available Light Cinema incarnation at the Yukon Arts Centre once a month. Even more amazing was the swiftness. Whitehorse is not known as the place where new good films come quickly–but the YFS have [...]
Is there no Sincerity in a Marketing Director? 2 comments
I was lucky enough to get a dream job: being a marketing director for the Yukon Arts Centre. The Arts Centre is a venue for a lot of non-local acts (and does host lots of local acts and artists as well) that come through Whitehorse, and into the communities. It encompasses not only the actual [...]
The Observer Observed: Kelly Richardson’s Twilight Avenger Leave a comment
I got a sneak peek at the opening of the Yukon Arts Gallery show today. I wanted to see what was happening…the ad my predecessor had put together for the show was intriguing. It had a green stag in the forest looking at you. It’s Kelly Richardson’s installation. I went into the room where the [...]
I Claudius, I Gertrude, I Polonius, I Hamlet: the humanity and unity of Bhaneja’s Hamlet {solo} 3 comments
I just returned from a brilliant rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Yukon Arts Centre. One man, Raoul Bhaneja, did the whole play–or an edited version of the whole play–but he did every part, not just Hamlet’s soliloquies. He had a box of light and an edge of darkness that he ran around making us [...]
