Mermaid Spring is a new work of interdisciplinary music theatre in co-creation by designer and performance maker Kyla Gardiner, writer Barbara Adler and musical director/producer James Meger, featuring compositions by Peggy Lee, Leah Abramson and Alicia Hansen. We focus on deep co-creation, slow process and social handcraft.
https://www.thepublicswoon.org/mermaid-spring
https://www.playwrightstheatre.com/programs/unscripted-mermaidspring/
Photos: Paula Viitanen Aldazosa
(Co-Creation & Lighting Design)
Beta Pink’s Space Bar is a traveling cosmic hideaway, where the galactic glitterati go to get away from themselves. The Space Bar exists for just a few short hours in Vancouver before teleporting to the next gravitationally bound system. Beta Pink hosts interplanetary denizens to the pleasures of the known universe. Unwind to the sonic lounge stylings of celeXion (pronounced like "selection"; it's short for celestial connection), imbibe in local earth libations, and hob-knob with friends you haven’t met yet.
The Party is a collaboration between Layla Marcelle Mrozowski and Kyla Gardiner.
Photos by: Layla Marcelle Mrozowski & Jacob Raeder
Pictured: Dave Biddle, Paul Paroczai and Andrea Cownden
(Co-Creation)
A phone rings, you pick up. On one end of the line - a subject, on the other end - an object, and in between them XXXX TOPOGRAPHY. Welcome to Pink’s Space Bar where the drinks are expensive, the objects are cheap and books are on the house.
XXXX TOPOGRAPHY (pronounced “sexy sexy sexy sexy topography”) is a work of Imaginary Theatre by The Party that flirts with the radical otherness prowling somewhere between you and not you. The work was performed at Studio T at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in January 2016.
Photos by Layla Marcelle Mrozowski & Jacob Raeder
Pictured: Andrea Cownden, Lexi Vajda, Deanna Peters, Rianne Svelnis, Emmalena Fredriksson and Paul Paroczai
(Direction, Dramaturgy, Lighting, Costume)
Klasika is a new musical written and created by Barbara Adler and Ten Thousand Wolves. It premiered in October 2015 at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU.
"A sharply funny new musical about Czech tramps, Canadian rodeo queens and the time Czech-Canadian writer\musician Barbara Adler accidentally became the subject of a documentary film. Mapping the intimate relationships between people and their stories, Klasika asks, What can we accomplish by using real life as material? And what happens when we’re the material that’s being used? Performed by a 14-member multidisciplinary ensemble, Klasika remixes its Czech-country roots with raucous musical numbers, field recordings from near and far and a heft dose of rodeo queen revelry."
Photo Credit: Paula Viitanen (Photos 2, 3, 5, 6, 9) and Lukas Engelhardt (1, 4, 7, 8, Header)
Pictured and many thanks to: Leah Abramson, Barbara Adler, Ashley Aron, David Biddle, Patrick Blenkarn, Skye Brooks, Rebecca Bruton, Juhli Conlinn, Lucien Durey, Emmalena Fredriksson, Julie Hammond, Jessie Huang, Robert Leveroos, James Meger, Corbin Murdoch, Paul Paroczai, Emma Postl, Ben Rogalsky, Shannon Scott, Megan Stewart, Kaitlin Stoneman, Dominique Wakeland, and Gavin Youngash.
(Co-creation & Lighting Design)
The Party is a collaboration between Layla Marcelle Mrozowski and Kyla Gardiner.
How I learned to stop verbing and blank the object is a performance work created by The Party in the Spring of 2014 and performed at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts - Studio T in Vancouver, BC.
Photo Credit: Layla Marcelle Mrozowski and Alex Thornton
Pictured: Chu Ng, Katherine Somody, Krystle Sivorot, Kelbey Saruk + James Cullen.
(Projection Improvisation)
A dance performance by Yves Candau which investigates the interplay between form and function in patterns of human locomotion to reveal some of the evolutionary threads at the core of our embodied nature.
Performed at the Neither Here Nor There MFA performance festival in May 2014 at SFU Woodwards, Vancouver.
Pictured: Yves Candau