By Robin J. Miller Ask anyone who saw A Conversation at its premiere in April 2004, at the McPherson Playhouse in Victoria, BC, and I guarantee they will remember it. Not every detail, of course, after so many years, but at least a few indelible images: a silver teapot, china teacups, oddly sized wooden tables,
By Tessa Perkins Deneault Ralph Escamillan’s gateway to dance was a breaking class at Harbour Dance Centre in Vancouver. He was 14, and during his first class they had a cypher, when everyone forms a circle and takes turns performing freestyle in the centre. “There was such a rush of excitement and fear, and that
Dancers fall slowly, defying gravity; props move as if they have a mind of their own; walls of light slice through the haze, dividing the stage. In this fantasy world created by Out Innerspace co-artistic directors Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond, the boundaries are constantly shifting and the laws of physics don’t seem to apply.