By Kaija Pepper For two fun nights at the circus, spent in awe of the human body in virtuosic stunt mode, many thanks to PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, which ran January 19 to February 5. The Cyr wheel provoked the creative explorations of Marica Marinoni and Juan Ignacio Tula of France’s Compagnie 7Bis. During
By Victor Swoboda In March, midway through Broadway Across Canada’s run of the musical Cats at Place des Arts, Montreal theatres dropped COVID passport requirements. Cats was Montreal’s first Broadway musical in over two years, and the public filled the city’s biggest hall to the uppermost tiers. Andy Blankenbuehler’s adaptation of Gillian Lynne’s original choreography
At the January premiere of Unikkaaqtuat at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, we were welcomed by the NAC’s Indigenous Theatre artistic director Kevin Loring. He pointed out that we could expect to be puzzled: “Confusion is part of any cultural exchange, so please embrace it.” Embracing this ambitious collaboration between Igloolik’s social circus collective Artcirq, Quebec’s