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The Only Animal is an award-winning creation-based theatre company in Vancouver.   Here’s a chance to see what it takes to run a company, produce your own work, and make a living in this field.  We’ve worked with 9 intern-mentees since 2005.

The Role: Associate Producer

The Responsibility: Assist with development and production of a new site-specific creation, working with TOA Artistic Producer and project leader Eric Rhys Miller.   A commitment for the duration of the project is essential.

The Project:  Out On A Limb is an intergenerational interspecies collaboration, bringing youth, elders, and trees together to create stories of growing up and growing older.  A multidisciplinary, multimedia project to be presented in a public park in early September.

The Dates: April 1 - September 30, 2012

The Tasks: Including but not limited to: managing production timeline, logistics, contracting communications, marketing & outreach, transport, volunteer coordination.  We guarantee a wide angle view of independent onsite theatre producing, and work to tailor the position to the successful applicants interest, availability and strengths. 

The Arrangement: 5 hours of admin/producing work gets you 1 hour of mentoring.  Use it to vision your career path, dramaturg a project, or mine us for information. 

To Apply: Please submit a one page letter of interest and a resume.

Contact: Artistic Producer

Obstructions
at Progress Lab 1422 (map)
 
First event: October 27, 2011 @ 7pm, at AGM-Apalooza
March 31, 2012
May 19, 2012
June 9, 2012
More dates to be announced

October 27's event at Progress Lab 1422 is $5 cover with no advance sales, and will follow a joint AGM with The Only Animal, Boca, Rumble Productions, Neworld Theatre, and more.  Doors at 6, AGM begins 7pm, Obstructions begins 9pm.  Arrive early, limited seating.

Following three sold-out iterations of the Hive party series, Vancouver's Progress Lab network of indie theatre-makers comes together to test the theory that creativity feeds on limits.
 
Inspired in part by The Five Obstructions by Jørgen Leth and Lars Von Trier, the core artists of each participating company will submit, a few at a time and under a cold spotlight, to a list of obstructions delivered by a shadowy emcee.  The companies will then be commanded to create their next production around those limitations. The obstructions for each company have been developed in secret by their peers - a custom-designed set of obstacles that will prompt each artist to adapt to a new approach to making theatre.  Form, place, style, theme, design, period, story - Obstructions spills out the artist's bag of tricks and kicks them out of reach.
On October 27, the first three companies will receive their obstructions: Radix (artistic director Andrew Laurenson), Boca Del Lupo (artistic directors Sherry Yoon and Jay Dodge), and Felix Culpa (artistic directors David Bloom and Linda Quibell).  They will return in the spring to perform their new works, and more obstructions will be delivered.