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Two Organizations Dancing, Playing, Breathing Together!
Two Organizations Dancing, Playing, Breathing together! Opening night of our shared anniversary collaboration – and it was so wonderful to see so many TPE subscribers in the audience! All the ensemble members, staff, and board put so much of their time and talents into interdisciplinary projects such as this – and as much as we’re [...]
Turning Point in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Tonight was our first rehearsal with dancers in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre – with a lot of time taken for us to find our comfort zone soundwise, for the lighting folks to see their designs on the dancers, and for the dancers and choreographers to see how the spacing they have been used to in [...]
Double Anniversary with Ballet BC
Don’t miss our next foray into the world of dance with our collaboration with Ballet BC April 14 – 16 at QET. Great tickets till available at www.ticketmaster.ca. We are thrilled to work with Emily Molnar and Jay Rankin at the Ballet. Their choreographers, Wen Wei Wang, Donald Sales, Gioconda Barbuta and Serge Bennathan (who [...]
FIREBIRD 2011 – ’til next time
What a wonderful week we had as resident ensemble at the Cultch. Audiences filled the hall for our four performances – and the feedback has been so gratifying. There have been so many people who told me in many different ways that the effect of our performances was to give them greater insight into joy [...]
FIREBIRD 2011 is SOLD OUT!
Rebecca at The Cultch has informed us that our run of FIREBIRD 2011 is officially sold out! We are so grateful for the support that so many people, organizations and funders have given this production. A big thank you to everyone involved with the creation of this project and the staff at The Cultch.
Opening Night
After a year of planning we have finally arrived at March 2, a date that has been programmed into my Blackberry for a year. This morning, my reminder kindly told me that FIREBIRD 2011 was opening tonight. Like I didn’t know that after a somewhat sleepless night. Today, it is literally the calm before the [...]
Into Production We Go!
Well, we’re heading into production week. We start hanging lights tonight (Friday) – and build the set tomorrow. We’ve been so welcomed by the Cultch’s staff – and are definitely feeling so fortunate to have this Rio Tinto Alcan award support to reach higher (pardon the Firebird pun) than we’d otherwise be able. Josh Beamish’s organization [...]
Firebird 2011 Media
Georgia Straight February 24 2011 Vancouver Sun Feb 24 2011
Firebird 2011 Creative Team Head to Banff
Turning Point Ensemble is sending choreographer Simone Orlando, Designers Alan Storey (set) and Conor Moore (lighting), and our wonderful company of dancers (Josh Beamish, Alison Denham, Heather Dotto, Cai Glover, and Matjash Mrozewski) to Banff this week to work in a fully functioning theatre to finish the development of our Firebird 2011 project. With some music that [...]
