Roger White News

Based on discussions between composer Roger White and his grandmother, Marianna Clark (née Goldmann), about her experiences fleeing Nazi Germany and arriving in the UK as a refugee, the piece combines texts mined from diaries and letters that Marianna wrote in her late teens and early 20s with the recordings of her speaking in her 90s.

Celebrated Montreal choreographer Helen Simard looks for the internal logic of chaos in a show that mixes contemporary and urban dance. Exploring themes of ingenuity, resistance, adaptation and resilience, it opened to an empty theatre.

JigJam, an award winning quartet from the heart of the midlands in Ireland, will perform at Elm Street Cultural Arts Village, 8534 Main St, Woodstock, GA, 30188, on Saturday, April 4th at 7:30 p.m. 

REQUIEM POP's deconstruction of many things-Iggy's music, the conventions of dance and storytelling, the boundaries between performer and audience, the use of the space -are the right kinds of envelope-pushing to tick off all the highbrow boxes, while managing the nearly impossible task of not also being boring.

With this new creation, choreographer Helen Simard continues her tribute to the musician Iggy Pop and the unique way he creates.

Following sold-out performances at the 2014 Montreal Fringe Festival and a critically acclaimed run at Tangente Danse during Pop Montreal in 2015, choreographer Helen Simard hits Toronto audiences this August with NO FUN: an interdisciplinary dance performance inspired by the music and movement of punk icon Iggy Pop.

Following sold-out performances at the 2014 Montreal Fringe Festival and a critically acclaimed run at Tangente Danse during Pop Montreal in 2015, choreographer Helen Simard hits Toronto audiences this August with NO FUN: an interdisciplinary dance performance inspired by the music and movement of punk icon Iggy Pop.

The old adage “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans,” would be an ideal tagline for local playwright Kiki Penoyer's TAPHOUSE, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's THREE SISTERS.