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Comment on Upper Toronto – Help wanted by Patrick Connolly

Patrick Connolly — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:54:55 +0000

Ok, listen — Shirky’s cognitive surplus talk at the Web2.0 conference is my go-to reference for why we are still so f*cking awesome in the face of all the non-awesome that we appear to be preoccupied with. Thanks for giving it the nod guys

Comment on Upper Toronto – Torontoist by Patrick Connolly

Patrick Connolly — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:50:57 +0000

Great great great awesome brilliant idea!!

Comment on 3 things and a thank you by Amy

Amy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:36:49 +0000

Thanks Jacob. Will do.

Comment on 3 things and a thank you by Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:18:32 +0000

Amy –
That workshop (with me and Michael, didn’t happen – but there are plans for future ones – both from Dancemakers and Small Wooden Shoe. This blog is probably a good place for the SWS ones, and then email bradley at dancemakers dot org and ask to be put on the classes email list.

Comment on 3 things and a thank you by Amy

Amy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:23:48 +0000

hey there — so i’ve missed the workshop by a month now, but still curious how it went and if there are any future plans for another. i stumbled upon your website/blog just today, not knowing much about small wooden shoe. it happened while sniffing around the web for like-minded theatre artists, since returning from a six-day workshop with headlines theatre in vancouver a few weeks ago. again, it’s really too bad i missed the workshop.. sounds like it was right up my alley! i’ll be sure to be popping by this blog again soon..

Comment on We get to choose what to talk about. by Meryem Alaoui

Meryem Alaoui — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:56:09 +0000

Small-scale, intimate settings. It’s not what the media would like to hear maybe. Perharps, Peggy is questioning with her work (and these quotes) the notion of stardom that can accompany the world of performing. It seems like the journalist of NOW is not satisfied with Peggy’s answer about the “dream” commission for the NBC, he has to insert a but after small-scaled, as if to justify the choice of not going for big crowds and fans and the whole “I am so famous and popular” thing.

And maybe, the journalist is unsatisfied because Peggy’s answer breaks in a way the idea that the public has of what a performer’s life is like. It breaks the idealized image, the bubble that the media has created and that it wants to perpetuate in the eyes of the public, because if we think of dance as a form of entertainment, well usually people go see this form of entertainent to escape their everyday reality and be transported into a world of fantasy and magic, almost like a dream world… i’m thinking about pop stars shows for example or even the ballet, they both provide their audience with a very entertaining experience. It seems to me that Peggy Baker, as a contemporary dance artist, is trying to explore other things and raise other questions that seem more important to her, like the gender issue.

Comment on 2009 World Theatre Day Message – Boal by ryan

ryan — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:18:50 +0000

i like the idea of actors being their own spectators. World Theatre Day sounds like a great idea and I’d love to attend an event like that. There is great theatre happening in Toronto this summer too. One of the more interesting and creative performances being at the Harbourfront Center called “Of All The People In All The WOrld.) It really puts things into perspective for all walks of life, using nothing more than grains of rice!

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/ofallthepeople

Comment on 2009 World Theatre Day Message – Boal by SMLois

SMLois — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:30:03 +0000

It’s great to hear you talking about what World Theatre Day means or could be for you and your company. It can be hard to find the right way of celebrating for you company. I know some companies are doing open rehearsals that day with plans of inviting some non-theatre people to see how theatre is created & are spreading the love that way. Others are doing tours of the theatre. Some are simply reading Boal’s speech in rehearsal or before the curtain of the show – and act that links all of these events globally.

There will be a bunch more ideas of how to get involved up on the world theatre day blog within the next couple of days, so I’d encourage you to keep checking it out.