The Theatre Centre’s FREE FALL 08
A World Stage 08 partnership
performance without a net
March 6 - 16, 2008
Tickets $20 / Festival Pass - $60
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Free Fall 08, a biennial festival of contemporary performance, is taking a big step. Through a growing kinship between The Theatre Centre and Harbourfront Centre, Free Fall is now part of World Stage 2008 with seven productions showcasing performers from Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal.
Venues will include The Theatre Centre as well as Harbourfront Centre locales such as the Enwave Theatre, the Brigantine Room and more. Keeping its connection to Queen West, the festival’s venues will again include The Lennox Contemporary gallery as well as The Gladstone Hotel for the Artists’ Breakfast.
"What is your relevance?” is the question being posed at the inaugural Culture Congress, a forum organized by Crows Theatre, The Theatre Centre
and Harbourfront Centre from March 7-10. The forum brings together artists and practitioners from the local and international performance and cultural communities in an exchange of practical skills and ideas, and is designed to stimulate dialogue around ideas of social, political, cultural and artistic relevance.
A Rumble Productions/ Theatre Replacement/ Co-Production (Vancouver) Two of the West Coast’s most exciting performance creation companies explore the dilemmas inherent in the appreciation and appropriation of other people’s memories. Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut uses fact, fiction, video, interviews, a rabbit suit and anything else required to make sense of a found collection of photo albums and personal belongings and the many lives interrupted along the way.
The Theatre Centre
Thursday 6 March, 8pm
Friday 7 March, 8pm
Saturday 8 March, 8pm
Sunday 9 March, 2.30pm
Chris Leavins(Los Angeles, Toronto) One of the internet's most popular artists, Leavins' videos have been viewed millions of times in countries all over the world. This project combines live theatre with emerging digital technologies. The first installment of this program, in Los Angeles, sold out in 85 minutes. See this innovative digital series archived online at www.theatrecentre.org Beginning March 7
Terrance Houle (Calgary) International performance artist and a member of the Blood Tribe, Houle has endeared himself to the public, fellow artists and galleries across the globe as he creatively twists serious issues inside/out with his irresistible humour. With 'Hey! Who Won? 2008 (Camper) Terrance creates a unique spin on Cowboys and Indians, challenging the public (The Cowboy) to a variety of board games. Participate in this battle of stereotype vs. stereotype as the camper is parked at various locations downtown in this free performance about leisure, the Wild West, and life in a camper.
PORTAGE - ONE DAY ONLY (dependent on weather)
Harbourfront
Friday 7 March, 3pm
HEY WHO WON? 2008
Harbourfront
Saturday 8 March - ALL DAY - Queen West
Sunday 9 March - ALL DAY - Queen West (near Theatre Centre)
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Marcelle Hudon (Montreal) Seasoned Quebecois artist Marcelle Hudon brings together a powerhouse team to sculpt a show of delicate beauty with shadow / puppetry / film / theatre. Poursuite puts its audience into the masterful hands of a political puppeteer who uses theatrical magic to reveal how things are never what they appear.
Enwave Theatre - Harbourfront Centre
Tuesday 11 March, 8pm
Wednesday 12 March, 9pm
Thursday 13 March, 9pm
urbanvessel(Toronto) Maverick composer-librettist duo Juliet Palmer and Anna Chatterton create Stitch, a new a cappella opera featuring sublime and wild singers Christine Duncan, Patricia O’Callaghan and Neema Bickersteth. Hemmed in by the language of sewing and the inexorable rhythm of the machine, three women fight to find space for imagination and individuality. From the sweet 3-part stylings of “Cowl-neck Blues” to the fierce interlocked minimalism of “Chain stitch, Lock stitch, Whip stitch”, Stitch gives voice to the unseen women who clothe us all.
Lennox Contemporary
Wednesday 12 March, 7.30pm
Thursday 13 March, 7.30pm
Friday 14 March, 8pm
Saturday 15 March, 2.30pm & 8pm
Sunday 16 March, 2.30pm &8pm
Istvan Kantor (Toronto) Banned by galleries all over the world, this winner of the Governor General Award also known as *Monty Cantsin*, the founder of Neoism, has been active in the fields of media-arts for over three decades. He is consciously working with new technical possibilities of sound and visual presentation, using his blood, mechanical and digital machinery, video and computer animation to deal with the structure of total communication. Transmission Machine is inspired by the artist’s own lifelong obsession and acute longing for revolution. With deadly aim, Istvan exploits the rhythm of in-situ action-based media performance to expose today’s oppressive global broadcast system.
The Theatre Centre
Thursday 13 March, 9pm
Friday 14 March, 9pm
Saturday 15 March, 9pm
ABA Ent (Toronto) Hip hop at the grassroots. Unsung Bboy Battle (Free Fall Edition) brings the best new and emerging hip hop dancers to go face to face in a dance off for top honours. ABA Ent has begun to connect Bboying communities across Canada in the hopes to increase understanding of all dance-art forms, especially to those who would not normally be exposed to these genres. How can a master of Ballet and a master of Bboying come together and create something spectacular?
Brigantine Room - Harbourfront Centre
Saturday 15 March, 4pm
ARTISTS BREAKFAST You are invited to join us for breakfast! This is a chance to chat casually with Free Fall’s talented artists while enjoying breakfast at Queen St. West's favourite brunch spot. Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West
Sunday March 9 @ 11am
Space limited to first 25 emails to cathy@theatrecentre.org
FREE, but patrons must pay for their own breakfast
Festival Curators: Franco Boni and Cathy Gordon
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